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Breguet Classique Souscription 2025

A legacy reimagined

Montres Breguet has kicked off its 250th anniversary celebrations with the release of the Classique Souscription 2025. Paying homage to the original pocket watch created by the brand’s founder to announce to clients his return to Paris, the 2025 model is a faithful modernisation and rendition of the original.

The release is emblematic of the change in direction ushered in by Gregory Kissling, the newly minted CEO for the Swatch Group’s flagship marque, and a demonstration of the embarrassment of riches that lie in Breguet’s history.

Abraham-Louis Breguet started his firm on the Quai de l’Horloge, Île de la Cité, in 1775. He achieved immediate success with his watches, primarily due to the innovative quality of his mechanisms and elegant design, but the French Revolution forced a pause on his business. He moved to Switzerland and it wasn’t until 1797 when he returned to Paris that he rebuilt his name as a watchmaker.

An original Abraham-Louis Breguet Souscription pocket watches.

He did so by initiating a new business model, issuing a pocket watch called the Souscription, complete with an advertising pamphlet (an innovation at the…

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All Around the World

Why Nomos Glashütte’s Club Sport Neomatik Worldtimer wowed the Watches & Wonders crowds

In just six years’ time, it’ll be a century since Swiss watchmaker Louis Cottier – in response to increasing use of transcontinental trains, ocean liners and passenger-based aviation –created a timepiece whose rotating and fixed rings reflected the world time-zones which had been established in 1883. Since then, international transit has not only been democratised, […]

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The Old Razzle-Dazzle

Watches & Wonders 2025 was all about the spectacle. And why not?

If Watches & Wonders 2024 was all about America’s Cup boats, 2025 was the year of the F1 car. On the IWC stand it appeared smashed and smoking – an actual crashed car from Brad Pitt’s summer blockbuster, F1. TAG Heuer went for a more traditional approach, giving it some stand space, while Tudor opted […]

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Franck Müller Vanguard Slim Night Cut

A sartorial timepiece with mischievous sex appeal

Franck Müller – which made headlines in the Asia Pacific region earlier this year with the release of the Silhouette CX Snake Emerald – is now making waves in this part of the world with the new Vanguard™ Slim Night Cut watch. For those late in the room, this ground-breaking Swiss watchmaker is a relative newcomer to […]

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Richard Mille RM 74-02 Automatic Tourbillon Gold Quartz TPT

Alchemy in luxury watchmaking

Richard Mille’s use of new material composites always had the Midas touch. The latest proof is the Richard Mille RM 74-02 Automatic Tourbillon Gold Quartz TPT®. This new exciting material is the latest out of the partnership with composite firm, North Thin Ply Technology. It took years of research to produce Gold Quartz TPT®, which […]

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Bvlgari x MB&F Serpenti

21st century aesthetics for a much-loved design classic

There is design chemistry between Max Busser, Founder of MB&F, and Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, Product Creation Executive Director at Bvlgari Horlogerie. The duo have a shared passion when it comes to visual codes, particularly automobiles, which shows in the aesthetics of their new collaboration, the Bvlgari x MB&F Serpenti. Busser and Buonamassa already worked together […]

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Feadship Project 714

Precision Engineering Meets Cutting-Edge Nautical Innovation

Majestic, imperious, imposing – any number of lofty adjectives could apply to the vessel before you, the latest creation from Dutch boat builder Feadship: Project 714, a 262-foot superyacht hybrid vessel which was launched from the yard’s Aalsmeer facility in the Netherlands at the end of February. Just final outfitting and sea trials now stand between […]

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MoonSwatch 1965

Celebrating the success of the Omega Speedmaster in the NASA tests

MoonSwatch 1965 celebrates a milestone achievement for Omega from 60 years ago. With the Gemini flight programme including the first spacewalk (outside the capsule), NASA required an official watch that had been appropriately tested for the astronauts to wear. On 1st March, 1965, NASA Program Director James H. Ragan declared that the Omega Speedmaster was […]

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Wheels Of Time

Girard-Perregaux Laureato Chronograph Aston Martin Edition

Roger Dubuis and Lamborghini, Hublot and Ferrari, Breitling and Bentley, IWC and AMG – something akin to alchemy seems to take place when the world’s top watch brands join creative forces with the world’s top car marques. This new collaboration between Girard-Perregaux and Aston Martin – the Laureato Chronograph Aston Martin Edition – is surely one of the […]

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Out Of This World

Bell & Ross BR-03 Astro

It’s easy to forget, being the solipsistic creatures that humans are – and despite Einstein having been a household name for over a century – that time isn’t some kind of homogenous force rippling through the cosmos. And the Bell & Ross BR-03 Astro is a timely reminder (pun intended) that time, as we know it, is actually […]

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Back to Basics

Ball And CronotempVs Collectors Team Up To Create The Engineer III 00BLU

The new Ball Engineer III 00BLU is a proud heir to the heritage of the brand, characterised by its precision, resilience, and innovative technology. The Ball Watch Company’s history is a curious one: and one that makes their wristwear a serious dinner party conversation starter. In 1891, in Kipton, Ohio, a tragic head-on train collision […]

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Hamilton Jazzmaster Performer Auto Chrono

A bold interpretation of the everyday sports watch

A bold interpretation of the everyday sports watch The new Jazzmaster Performer Auto Chrono brings freshness and innovation to the classis sports watch by Hamilton, drawing from the company’s military and aviation heritage, which dates back to the 1st World War, when the Hamilton Watch Company started supplying pocket watches for the military. First introduced […]