The mountains of Japan carry a quiet power. From the steep volcanic peaks of the north to the forested ranges that surround Shinshu and Shizukuishi, these landscapes have shaped the country’s culture for centuries. Culturally, they are places of renewal, of stillness and of strength. For @grandseikoofficial Grand Seiko, they are a source of inspiration.

The relationship between nature and craft is central to Grand Seiko’s Nature of Time philosophy. You see it immediately in the dials. The green of summer on the Hotaka slopes. The deep red glow of dawn as autumn settles along the ridge. The shadowed texture of Mount Iwate rising alone over the prefecture. Even on the bold chronograph, the mountain’s presence is unmistakable.

Across Spring Drive, Heritage and the Evolution 9 collections, mountain inspired dials have become some of Grand Seiko’s most compelling, and beautiful creations.

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If we step back from the category of Best Sports Watch just a little and look at the sports landscape of the last 12 months, the sport of the moment is, without doubt, Formula 1.

Thanks to its combination of dangerous curves, highly engineered machines and charismatic pilots, F1 has long been favored by watchmakers looking to promote their products to the right audience. In recent years, that underlying thrum has reached a fever pitch as global interest in F1 has exploded, turning it into a holy grail of sports endorsements.

Inspired by the watch worn by Brad Pitt in the eponymous F1 movie @f1movie, the the limited edition @iwcwatches IWC Ingenieur Automatic 40 “Sonny Hayes.” is our winner of Best Sports Watch. ...

For many, @vancleefarpels Van Cleef & Arpels will be best known for its incredible high jewellery creations and iconic Alhambra design, the Richemont Group Maison is, just quietly, one of the most interesting watchmakers working today — certainly one that has an approach and philosophy when it comes to creating watches that is radically different from their peers. At Van Cleef & Arpels, creation is in service of a story that is the genesis of each and every design.

For those in Hong Kong, it`s also a world you can explore like never before in their ‘Poetry of Time’ exhibition, designed as an immersive journey through the creative universes of Van Cleef & Arpels. Not only are there archival and current creations, from the realms of fine jewellery and timepieces, as well as remarkable objects like the Planetarium and the Naissance de l’Amour automaton, but there are also insights into the jewellery and métiers d’art techniques that create these pieces, supported by the L’École School of Jewellery Arts, an educational organisation supported by VC&A.

The ‘Poetry of Time’ is an immersive and educational glimpse into a world of wonder and diamonds, a rare opportunity to explore the history of one of the brand, outside of a boutique. The exhibition is being held at a custom space at Central Ferry Pier 4 in Hong Kong until the 8th of February 2026.

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@universalgeneve Universal Genève’s return to watchmaking reached a decisive moment with the revival of “The Nina,” the Tribute to Compax chronograph that has won the 2025 Revolution Award for Best Revival Watch.

The category recognizes a historic model of near-legendary status brought back either as a regular production piece or a limited edition.

In this case, the award goes to a watch whose original identity was shaped as much by its design as by the woman who wore it: Nina Rindt, wife of champion driver Jochen Rindt, whose presence at race circuits in the late 1960s helped transform a functional chronograph into a cult object. ...

Given the strong contenders this year, the bar is high for the category of Best High Jewellery. @tiffanyandco Tiffany & Co.’s Bird on a Flying Tourbillon – Azure Blossom checks all the boxes, beginning with the glorious diamond bespeckled bird perched on the edge of a flying tourbillon and set amidst a sea of appliqué lacquered flowers.

Of course, this is an interpretation of Tiffany & Co.’s first flying tourbillon timepiece released last year, so in novelty terms, it is not wholly new. But it is a magnificent flex of Tiffany & Co.’s expertise in myriad high jewelry crafts, from champlevé enameling, lacquer work and miniature gold sculpting to diamond setting, the house’s specialty.

Given that this is Tiffany & Co., diamonds are the order of the day — all 771 of them in myriad sizes and cuts, and requiring more than 100 hours to set. The eponymous bird, meanwhile, is sculpted by hand from 18K white and yellow gold, and set with 70 diamonds that contribute to the whopping 3.8 carats on the piece in total.

The Artime movement Caliber AFT24T01 is immaculately hand finished, showcasing a full range of high watchmaking techniques, from beveling and satin finishing to mirror-polishing, along with a generous dusting of diamonds on two decorative plates.

Find out more about this award at Revolution-1917.org (Link in bio)

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@audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet’s 2026 novelties read like a manifesto for the next 150 years and of course, the brand was never going to let a century and a half of watchmaking go by without a monumental display of horological dominance. One of the clear through-lines is a brand that’s committed to complications engineered around real human use, which can be seen in the suite of new offerings built around the Calibre 7139.

Of course, the brand’s flair for new takes on the familiar is in full effect too, with two new ‘tone on tone’ open-worked Royal Oak watches revealing their inner workings, the Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Thin Openworked and Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked. Finally, the follow-up to 2023’s popular Royal Oak turquoise dial is here, in yellow gold and malachite.

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Ever since its introduction in 1993, the @audemarspiguet Royal Oak Offshore has been firmly embedded in pop culture. Over the years, it`s become one of the quintessential sports-chic watches, always large and always in charge.

Today, we get three new takes on the ROO, in 42mm cases with characteristically bold palettes. There are two black ‘Mega-Tapisserie’ dials, with pink and teal inner bezels and, in the case of the turquoise, a matching strap. Then there’s a more understated option, with a blue-green dial and rose gold highlights on the dial and crown. All three are powered by the AP Calibre 4308. ...

With @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet set to return to Watches & Wonders this April, the Le Brassus watchmaker has begun its run-up to the fair with a slate of noteworthy releases, includingupdates to core collections, like this new Code 11.59 Tourbillon. Executed in a tasteful two-tone case in white gold and black ceramic, paired to a warm ivory dial finished in a guilloché pattern. Audemars Piguet approach to two tone is sophisticated. Rather than combining two shades of gold, the brand takes the opposite route by pairing ceramic, a decidedly modern material, with traditional white gold. The result is striking. The black ceramic case middle works naturally with the white gold case, and beyond the visual contrast, the two tone construction helps articulate the complex architecture of the Code 11.59 case, a quality that is often overlooked.

Inside the Flying Tourbillon is the cal. 2950, which debuted with the launch of the Code 11.59 lineup in 2019. The highlight of this movement, however, is on the front side. Thanks to the flying tourbillon construction, there are no bridges above the cage to obstruct the view, allowing the three arm steel cage to be admired in full. ...

The ROO Chronograph is a legend in its own lifetime, a larger-than-life platform that is bold more often than not. For 2026, @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet is introducing two new 43 mm references that expand this line with interesting combinations of ceramic, titanium, and carefully balanced color treatments, reaffirming the collection’s experimental vocation.

The first model is distinguished by a case made entirely of “Bleu Nuit, Nuage 50” ceramic, a well-known, AP-exclusive shade of blue, deep and saturated. The next offers a titanium case combined with a black ceramic bezel, pushers, and crown, creating an immediate contrast between the smoked green PVD “Mega Tappisserie” dial, nuanced with black and beige elements, lending the whole watch an alpine sports aesthetic. ...

Amid a slate of @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet releases, the announcement with the broadest impact is perhaps the arrival of a new in-house chronograph calibre for the Royal Oak Chronograph 38mm. Both the 38mm and 41mm Royal Oak Chronographs have relied on the Calibre 2385, which was based on a legendary ebauche, the Frederic Piguet Calibre 1185. While the 41mm model transitioned to the in-house Calibre 4401 in 2021, its larger dimensions made it unsuitable for the 38mm case, which left the smaller chronograph without an in-house alternative until now.

The new automatic Calibre 6401 offers a column wheel with a vertical clutch, but has a completely different architecture from the Calibre 4401, and offers a 55-hour power reserve. It will debut in three references, one in steel, one in pink gold and a gem-set pink gold model with a sand-toned dial. ...

As part of its ongoing 150th anniversary celebrations, @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet has unveiled the 150e Heritage Pocket Watch. It takes the architecture of the Calibre 1000 but reworks the control scheme for use as a pocket watch. More than that, it introduces what AP calls a “Universal Calendar” that reconciles solar, lunar and lunisolar time in a single display on the case back and is capable of indicating the dates of Christmas, Ramadan, Saint John’s Day, Diwali, Rosh Hashanah, Pesach, Vesak, Easter and the Chinese New Year, for any year from 1900 to 2099.

Functionally, it offers a mechanical means of understanding how different calendrical systems intersect within a given year, presented all at once. One thing to note right out of the gate is that this is a module that is contained within the case back and has no connection to the movement, meaning it does not run continuously. Instead, it is lookup table that is advanced manually via a fluted bidirectional wheel set into the caseback. Once the year is selected, it will display whether it is common or leap year, positions the lunar ring so that new and full moons align with their corresponding dates for the selected year, along with the correct dates of all the listed observances for that year until the year is manually changed again by rotating the fluted wheel in the case.

This brings the total number of complications to 30 but more than the sum of its parts, it is perhaps the most intuitive and user-friendly grand complication pocket watch ever made. ...