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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Watches and Wonders 2025: how the industry is adapting to growing demand from young collectors
At Watches and Wonders 2025 in Geneva, the fine watchmaking industry focuses on engaging young collectors. Brands showcase innovation in design, materials, and marketing to attract the next generation of enthusiasts. View on euronews
Tatler Asia
26-05-2025
- Tatler Asia
Beyond the PRX: Why the new Tissot PRC 100 Solar deserves your attention
Blending modern solar technology with a bold architectural design, Tissot's PRC 100 Solar reinvents an early digital age favourite, offering a stylish and sustainable alternative to the retro PRX With its 1970s-inspired lines, integrated bracelet, and accessible pricing, it's no wonder the Tissot PRX has become a big hit. But just as the PRX captured the current zeitgeist of retro refinement, Tissot's new PRC 100 Solar presents a thoroughly modern proposition. Tissot updates the mid-2000s classic with the cutting-edge Lightmaster Solar Quartz movement. Beneath its crisp silhouette, the PRC 100 Solar converts natural and artificial light that passes through discreet solar panels into energy, resulting in a reliable timepiece designed for ease in daily life. Excess energy is stored in a rechargeable accumulator. Read more: Watches and Wonders 2025: Arguably affordable watches straight from the Geneva fair
Tatler Asia
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Tatler Asia
What 2 watch collectors took away from Watches and Wonders 2025
Self-confessed Cartier watch nerd Nic James and TickTockBelle Stephanie Soh share their highlights from the Geneva watch fair With Watches and Wonders 2025 (WWG) still fresh in our minds, Tatler GMT reached out to Nic James, head of The Horology Club Malaysia, and Stephanie Soh, one-half of TicktockBelles in Singapore, for their thoughts on the fair from an enthusiast's perspective. Read more: Watches and Wonders 2025: Tatler GMT editors pick their favourite watches NIC JAMES What watch releases or trends stood out to you? Last year's event left me a bit underwhelmed. There were plenty of releases, but nothing that really grabbed my attention. As a collector, it came across like the industry was playing it safe. But this year brought back the wow factor. We saw new movements, interesting technology, better case proportions, and thoughtful updates that made the watches more wearable. It felt like the brands cared about what was happening under the hood, not just how the watch looked on the outside. I was genuinely excited, and that hasn't happened in a while. Which maisons made the strongest statements this year? Rolex really stood out to me. They launched the Land-Dweller with the new Dynapulse escapement, and that's a big move from a brand known for slow and incremental changes. Rolex doesn't often introduce entirely new models, so this was exciting to see. The engineering behind the escapement is interesting, and I'm curious to see how it performs over time. What excites me most is its potential— does this mean we will get to see a slimmer Submariner one day? Ulysse Nardin also impressed me. I've always appreciated the Freak, but the new Diver [Air] really excited me. The skeletonised diver can handle 5,000g of force and is water-resistant up to 200m. It's like Richard Mille technology that can be taken underwater. It wore so well too for a 44mm.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
A Watch This Elegantly Complicated Has No Right to Be So Compact
Zenith mirrors its 1969 Chronomaster with perfect proportions, multiple complications and a precious metal. Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more No other watch brand can seamlessly blend a classy moon phase calendar complication and a sporty racing chronograph like Zenith. The new Chronomaster Original Triple Calendar mirrors the case proportions of the A386 line from 1969, the first watches to house the El Primero chronograph movement. While this multiple-complication Chronomaster dates back to the 1970s, it was reintroduced in 2024 with a compact 38mm case. The steel versions released last year were impressive enough, but the new rose gold and black Chronomaster Original Triple Calendar adds a measure of vintage sophistication. Coming off an impressive run at Watches and Wonders 2025, Zenith appears to have saved its most wearable and approachable, if not quite affordable, new watch for after the dust settled. It may not have the name recognition of the Rolex Daytona or Omega Speedmaster, but for chronograph aficionados, the Zenith El Primero is second to none. Its 1/10th second register and high-beat 36,000vph accuracy are top of the class. What's more, Zenith has consistently demonstrated an exceptional aptitude for geometric balance and proportioning in its dial layouts. Adding a day, month and moon phase to an already busy dial could muck things up, but not with Zenith. A date window already existed at 4:30 in the El Primero template, so small day and month windows are masterfully placed right above the rose gold-plated running seconds register at nine o'clock and the rose gold-plated chronograph seconds register at three o'clock. The moon phase is incorporated into the rose gold-plated chronograph minutes register at six o'clock through a crescent moon-shaped cut-out in the dial. Unlike most chronographs, the central second hand on the El Primero makes a complete revolution every 10 seconds. A rose gold-plated 1/10th-second chapter ring counts to 100, while a black chapter ring placed outside measures the elapsed time in tenths of a second. Despite the precious metal, the new Chronomaster Original Triple Calendar is subdued by today's luxury watch standards. The 18-karat rose gold is warm and balanced out by black on the dial and leather strap. The 38mm case size creates a discrete silhouette that doesn't jump off the wrist like many audacious luxury watches. Its luster is muffled further by the sporty dial layout that, even with the added calendar compilation, echoes 1970s racing chronographs. Quiet luxury has negative connotations of flavorless neutral colors and bland design. Still, this watch fits the traditional definition in that it is unassuming to the untrained eye and has a luxurious price and pedigree. Even with the addition of a precious metal, this Zenith chronograph maintains the brand's IYKYK reputation. The impressive combination of complications is tucked away in a compact case that doesn't disclose its value, making it an excellent humble-flex. The Zenith Chronomaster Original Triple Calendar in 18-karat rose gold is available now from Zenith and authorized dealers for $26,300. Steel versions of the Chronomaster Original Triple Calendar are still available and, depending on the strap, cost between $13,400 and $13,900. $26,300 at Zenith
South China Morning Post
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Style Edit: Hermès wowed at Watches and Wonders 2025 with playful, intricate timepieces – reimagining time with a suspended complication, and delving into high jewellery
If there is one overarching theme in Hermès' releases for Watches and Wonders 2025, it is the ability to play with time. The brand reintroduced one of its signature complications, Le Temps Suspendu (Suspended Time), to two of its mainstay collections. At the push of a button, time is stopped and all hands of the watch assume a fixed position near the 12 o'clock marker – hour hand at 11:59 and minute hand at 12:01. It's a configuration that otherwise won't be seen on a watch, and yet even as the watch remains fixed and the wearer transfixed, time marches on within the movement. Hermès Arceau Le Temps Suspendu. Photo: Handout This year, Hermès offers the complication on two different models. The Arceau Le Temps Suspendu shows the complication as described, while also hiding the retrograde date hand when the complication is engaged – so not only is the time forgotten, but the day is also left to your imagination. The 42mm piece presents in three varieties – a white gold case with a brun désert (desert brown) or rouge sellier (saddle red) dial, or a rose gold case with a sunburst blue dial. The semi-openworked dials and exhibition caseback show the Hermès H1837 movement inside. Advertisement Hermès Cut Le Temps Suspendu. Photo: Handout For those looking for a sportier version of the complication, the Hermès Cut Le Temps Suspendu is a 39mm piece in rose gold with either an opaline or red-tinted dial, or combines a white dial with a gem-set bezel. This version of the Cut shows time suspended by fixing the sub-seconds dial at 12 o'clock. The dial itself is also 'cut' to show where the hands are stopped when time is suspended – there are no minutes when the hands reach that position. Hermès Maillon Libre. Photo: Handout Hermès' newest collection, Maillon Libre, delves into high jewellery watches, and in particular their tendency to conceal the checking of time. The discreet, two-hand, time-only, gem-set piece comes in rose or white gold, and as either a discreet bracelet wristwatch or a brooch. The latter – which can be worn on the cuff or on the neck via a cordlet and clochette – shows the watch adorned with a terracotta tourmaline in the rose gold version, and an indicolite tourmaline in white gold. Hermès Arceau Rocabar de Rire. Photo: Handout The most playful watch of Hermès' releases this year, however, has to be the Arceau Rocabar de Rire. Here, the dial combines engraving and hand-painting techniques to evoke Hermès' signature Rocabar marquetry and equestrian motifs, while activating the pusher at 9 o'clock makes the horse stick out its tongue.
