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Breguet’s Marine Sets a New Course

A Visual Refresh Grounded in Naval Heritage

Breguet has never had to invent a maritime backstory for its Marine collection. In 1815, Abraham-Louis Breguet was appointed watchmaker to the French Royal Navy, and the marine chronometers he went on to make gave the modern line both its name and its purpose. For 2026, the house has returned to that heritage with refreshed versions of two core models, the Marine 5517 and the Marine Chronographe 5527. The most visible change is on the dial. Roman numerals give way to applied Breguet numerals, a move that makes the watches feel sportier without losing any of their refinement or tradition. Beneath them sits the "Quai de l'Horloge" guilloché, the pattern Breguet created for its 250th anniversary in 2025, named after the Paris quay where the founder kept his workshop. The date has also moved from 3 o'clock to 6, restoring symmetry to the collection that enthusiasts will appreciate. The different dials and styles to the new Breguet Marine ref. 5517; from left to right, white gold with an ice-blue dial, rose gold with black, and titanium with a gradient blue dial. The Marine 5517...

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Range Rover Sport Electric

Giving the V8 the Silent Treatment

For more than 20 years, the Range Rover Sport has been the extrovert of the family, the one more interested in the driver than the passenger, particularly when there happened to be a V8 under the bonnet. So, can electricity really deliver the same emotional appeal? Range Rover certainly thinks so. The new Range Rover […]

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Bentley Torcal: A New Kind of Power

Crewe Enters the Electric Age with Aplomb

When W.O. Bentley founded his company in 1919, he set out to build “a fast car, a good car, the best in its class.” More than a century later, Crewe’s first fully electric car, the Bentley Torcal, meets the founder’s requirements with ease. It is an auspicious debut for Bentley in the zero-emissions age. Just […]

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Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin 30th Anniversary

Three Decades on, a Lighter Way to Travel

Vacheron Constantin has marked the Overseas collection’s 30th anniversary with an Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin in white gold with an azure blue dial. It’s a lighter, less saturated shade than the deep blue the collection is known for and introduced back in 2016. Limited to 200 pieces, the watch pairs a full perpetual calendar and […]

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Aston Martin AMB 002 Roadster

Track Heart, Road Soul

The most revealing figure in the AMB 002 specification is not 130bhp, 190kg or even its five-kilogram titanium frame. It is 225hp: the output of its predecessor, the AMB 001 Pro. Aston Martin and Brough Superior have deliberately stepped backwards on peak power, which tells you almost everything about their first road-legal motorbike. The 002 […]

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The Wizard in the Woods

Roger Dubuis Closes its Merlin Trilogy

Roger Dubuis has been building Arthurian legend into its Knights of the Round Table collection since 2013, but Excalibur The Metamorph Merlin may be one of its most convincing pieces of storytelling yet. The third and final watch in the current Merlin trilogy moves beyond the wizard’s omniscience and sorcery to his power of transformation, […]

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Rolex Perpetual Padellone

The Triple Calendar Returns After Seventy Years

Rolex unveiled their first triple calendar, the Perpetual Padellone, in Milan on 15 September. This is the first true triple calendar (day, date, month and moonphase together) Rolex has made since 1953. In its entire history, the brand has only ever produced two such watches: the reference 8171 and reference 6062, both launched around 1949–1950 […]

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Hublot Classic Fusion Balloon Dog by Jeff Koons

Inflating the Boundaries Between Art and Watchmaking

Hublot and Jeff Koons have more in common than one might guess at first sight. Both built their reputations by taking materials that did not traditionally belong in their respective worlds and forcing us to look at them differently. For Hublot, the provocation began in 1980 with gold on vanilla-scented rubber. For Koons, it has […]

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Time & Terroir: An Evening of Watches and Wine

Five Pairings Built on Craft, Character and Provenance

There are few things watch collectors enjoy more than being able to handle a watch away from the display case, and few things wine lovers enjoy more than tasting something with a story behind it. Bringing the two together was the idea behind an intimate evening hosted by I-M Inquisitive Minds with Mentzendorff in the […]

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The Comeback Season

Horological Resurrections Worth Celebrating at Geneva Watch Days 2026

Geneva Watch Days has a habit of surfacing quiet threads running beneath the noise of a busy week. Several maisons unveiled watches built from their past, a complication dropped from the catalogue, a brand gone quiet for years, an object that had never been a wristwatch to begin with. Each one, a genuine act of […]

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A. Lange & Söhne Triple Split Platinum

The Only Chronograph that Can Split Seconds, Minutes and Hours

While the rest of the watch world had decamped to Switzerland for Geneva Watch Days, A. Lange & Söhne chose Hampton Court Concours d’Elegance to release a new version of its Triple Split chronograph, in 950 platinum with a rhodium-coloured dial and contrasting grey sub-dials in London. This is the third execution of the watch […]

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Vanguart’s Axel Leuenberger talks AI

Compute Is Destiny: Inside the Watch for the Age of AGI

Vanguart has made fewer than 200 watches in its entire history. That scarcity is exactly why, when Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) commissioned seven of them for the company’s inner circle this summer, the story moved as fast as people could search the web. “It’s a different level of awareness,” says Vanguart’s co-founder Axel Leuenberger. The […]