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Jewelry watch trends 2025

Jewelry watch trends 2025

Faithful to the tradition of jewellery watches, watchmakers are renewing designs and reinventing worn clothes to meet the expectations of today's women. An anthology of new jewels that tell the time. Watchmakers have always imagined jewellery watches. From the first timepieces appeared, these outward signs of wealth and power were adorned with stones, decorated with enamel paint. This tradition experienced a revival of interest in the twentieth century, worn by Piaget and its cuff watches or long necklaces, or Jaeger-LeCoultre which, thanks to its calibre 101, the smallest hand-wound mechanical movement in the world, offers cases, each more delicate than the last. From then on, the greatest manufactures redoubled their efforts to create pieces in tune with the times, meeting the expectatio...

Watches & Wonders 2024: latest exploits from the master-watchmakers

Watches & Wonders 2024: latest exploits from the master-watchmakers

With great complications centred on the mastery of elements, watchmakers are using the Watches & Wonders Geneva exhibition to showcase their ability to peer into the future. Finesse, precision and practicality, the master-watchmakers compete in their ingenuity to offer us ever better performing and record-breaking watches. Horology is a promise. A vision. A desire to project oneself into the intangible universe of time. Freed from its primary function —telling the time— the watch has evolved into a fantastical object, one which maintains its scientific dimension. In a world inherently uncertain, disrupted by geopolitical crises and anxieties related to climate change, this year contemporary horology reminds us of its soothing power and permanence: the belief in certain truths about the cou...

Watches & Wonders 2024: Women's Watch Trends

Watches & Wonders 2024: Women's Watch Trends

Gathering 54 exhibiting houses, the largest watch fair took place from 9th to 14th April in Geneva, attracting no less than 49,000 visitors. This year, the event Watches & Wonders confirmed the growing interest from new generations. We were there, and here are the trends we observed for women's watches. High-end watchmaking is no longer reserved for men and seniors! The 2024 edition of Watches & Wonders proves this: 25% of the tickets were sold to those under 25, with an average age of 35. No wonder watchmakers are shaking up classic codes to create timepieces that will appeal to the digital natives of Gen Y. First strong trend – as in fashion, manufacturers are playing the "gender fluid" card by reducing proportions. According to Watchfinder & Co, the expert platform for pre-owned luxury...

Horological complications: a beginner’s guide

Horological complications: a beginner’s guide

We've already covered watch movements, which you now master perfectly! Over time and with the acquisition of new pieces, the watch becomes much more than just a timepiece or a stylish accessory. As they gain confidence and accumulate technical knowledge, collectors will naturally gravitate towards models with complications. Complications are, of course, primarily associated with mechanical watches. Isn't a mechanical watch already a complex object in itself? "Certainly not," watchmakers will retort from behind their workbenches. With their focus on the infinitely small, these "mad scientists" continuously push boundaries. Because, beyond its aesthetic and practical qualities, a timepiece is first and foremost a technical feat. Designing a watch that tells time through a mechanical moveme...

Men's watches: our 15 top picks from Watches & Wonders

Men's watches: our 15 top picks from Watches & Wonders

Watches and Wonders, the world's largest watch fair, set a new record. Between 27 March and 2 April in Geneva, some 43,000 visitors wandered the aisles to discover new products from the land of timepieces. There's no doubt about it: the 48 exhibiting watch brands gave their all to create surprise and arouse desire. But what were the highlights among new men's watches? Rolex set the tone and surprised us all with its bold and colourful variations on its emblematic models. In addition to celebrating the Daytona’s 60th anniversary and the Explorer’s 70th anniversary, the brand is launching a new collection called Perpetual 1908. This future icon is elegant, classic and contemporary, a perfect illustration of the mastery of know-how and the perpetual quest for excellence which define the studi...

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