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Bulgari Aluminium Ice Blue and White: Dial Design Within a Fixed Material System
Bulgari introduced its Aluminium collection in 1998, pairing an aluminium case with a rubber bezel at a time…
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Armin Strom Minute Repeater Resonance 12:59 First Edition: How Two Competing Mechanisms Shaped One Movement Architecture
The Armin Strom Minute Repeater Resonance 12:59 First Edition is a direct descendant of the brand’s 2019 Masterpiece…
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Chronoswiss Opus Dakar Sundown: Skeleton Chronograph Case Design and Finishing Examined
The Chronoswiss Opus was introduced in 1995 as the world’s first serially produced skeletonised automatic chronograph. That founding…
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Chronoswiss Pulse GMT Frosted Guilloche Gold: How a Case Finish Becomes a Design System
Frosted Guilloche Gold Watch Case Design: How Chronoswiss Unified Texture and Structure in the Pulse GMT Chronoswiss introduced…
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Longines Conquest Heritage Central Power Reserve Light Blue: How a New Dial Color Tests a Mid-Century Display Design
In 2024, Longines reintroduced the Conquest Heritage Central Power Reserve to mark the 70th anniversary of the Conquest…
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François-Henri Bennahmias Launches N3W5: What the Honourable Merchants Group Reveals About the Next White Space in Luxury Watchmaking
The brand is called N3W5 — pronounced “news,” with the letters standing for North, East, West, South —…
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Franck Muller x Jisbar Vanguard Crazy Hours: When a Pop Art Dial Becomes a Mechanical Concept
In 2025, Franck Muller released a 250-piece collaboration with French pop artist Jean-Baptiste Launay, known professionally as Jisbar,…
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Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight Jour Nuit Phase de Lune: Engineering a Dual-Hemisphere Celestial Dial
Van Cleef & Arpels introduced the Jour Nuit collection in 2008 as a vehicle for translating the 24-hour…
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Breguet’s 225th Tourbillon Anniversary: Four Watches Built Around a Re-Engineered Caliber
On June 26, 1801, Abraham-Louis Breguet was granted the patent for the tourbillon — a regulating device that…
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Blancpain Villeret Ultraplate 38mm: How a Smaller Case Demands a Different Dial
Blancpain introduced the 38mm version of the Villeret Ultraplate in 2020, reducing the case from the 40mm diameter…
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