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Best Super NEWS Watches
Hands-On: Breitling Top Time B01 Martini Racing
The revival and resurgence of Breitling since 2017 has been a serious business. Led by CEO Georges Kern, the private equity-backed company has vaulted itself back into the top 10 Swiss brands by sales, refocusing around heavyweight names in its collection, most notably the Navitimer, Chronomat, and Superocean models. For 2025, however, the less earnest Breitling Top Time model line has been thrust center stage and asked to drive many of the brand's new releases. So far, it seems to be having a blast. In a nicely-sized daily driver Top Time, Breitling introduced us to its new three-hand in-house manufacture movement, the B31, that...
Introducing: With Nine New Models, Raymond Weil Expands Its Award-Winning Millesime Collection
With the announcement of nine new models this spring, Raymond Weil proves that brands don't necessarily have to wait until an anniversary year to make a significant impact. While the Geneva-based family-owned watchmaker approaches its 50th anniversary in 2026, it's making a bold statement now with six new 35mm models and three new 39mm chronographs in its acclaimed Millesime collection, effectively building on the considerable success of the original model's release.? Let's start with the 2023 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genve (GPHG) winner in the Challenge category, the Millesime small seconds. This collection is expanding with ...
Happenings: Blancpain Unveils New York City Flagship In The Heart Of Manhattan
Blancpain has officially opened its U.S. flagship boutique on New York's prestigious East 57th Street, nestled among the skyscrapers of "Billionaires' Row" steps from Central Park and Fifth Avenue. To commemorate the occasion, Blancpain is hosting an exclusive three-day celebration from May 30 to June 1, 2025, offering visitors hands-on experiences with Swiss master craftsmen and an exclusive first look at Blancpain's home away from home. In an exciting move, the maison is bringing its legendary Swiss watchmaking expertise directly to Manhattan, with workshops led by master watchmakers and artisans from Blancpain's headquarters. ...
Introducing: The Marathon Navigator 'Blue Yonder' Limited Edition
For the first time in its history, Marathon Watch Company has introduced a bold splash of color to its tough-and-ready Navigator series with a limited edition they are calling the "Blue Yonder." Since the Navigator's inception in 1986 as a purpose-built instrument for military pilots and parachutists, the series has maintained a strictly utilitarian aesthetic focused on function over formuntil now. This azure-accented special edition marks an exciting departure while still maintaining the DNA and technical excellence that has made the Navigator a trusted companion for military personnel (and many of us) for decades. The Blue Yon...
Introducing: The Serica 5303 PLD Limited Edition Is Designed For French Naval Divers
Serica has just announced a new limited edition of the brand's 5303 dive watch, which was developed in close collaboration with the French Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Divers Association. With a few aesthetic changes, most notably a new diving scale for the bezel, it's a unique addition to the brand's 5303 lineup. What remains the same is the overall case construction. The 39mm stainless steel case, with a thickness of 12.2mm, features the same lyre lugs that accompany most of the brand's models. Lug to lug remains fairly similar at 46.5mm, with the included steel mesh bracelet having an articulating attachment to the end link so it can drop straight ...
Seven Summer-Ready Watches C All Under $2000
The first taste of warm weather turns me into a schizophrenic watch collector, eschewing my love of neo-vintage, small-cased chic. I crave accessible and fun watches that cheer me up and double as a non-connected training buddy when I'm out on my gravel bike or jumping into a lake. Fun wristwear can still be fairly priced without sacrificing quality or style, from tool-tough to pop art that also happens to tell the time. For some summer inspiration, read on for a list of great options for your next day at the beach, a weekend at the lake, or even just your everyday walk home (but make it warm and sunny).? Swatch Scubaqua The vibrant Bioce...
Introducing: The Omega Seamaster Railmaster Refreshed For 2025
Today, Omega introduces a new generation of the Railmaster. Gone are the vertically brushed dials and printed crosshairs of the previous generation introduced in 2017. The Railmaster is now represented by two new 38mm designs that bring the line closer to the 1957 original while ensuring alignment with the modern Aqua Terra.? The new 2025 Railmaster has a stainless steel 38mm case with a thickness of 12.4mm and a compact lug-to-lug of 44.9mm. The case alternates between brushed and polished finishes and features a screw-down crown and 150 meters of water resistance. There are two new dial variations, and it's not just different c...
Hands-On: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds on Milanese Link Bracelet
Jaeger-LeCoultre is a maker. Most obviously a watchmaker, yes, but in 2025, that word is thrown around to describe watch brands far too often, especially in direct comparison to JLC. We know the history, we know that JLC is "the watchmaker of watchmakers" having supplied movements across the industry, sitting at the heart of many iconic models from competitors. But as the wider industry has moved to in-house production, the value of being a "real" manufacture has been bastardized. So much so that JLC, the one brand that should stand proudly on the laurels of its manufacturing abilities, has more often taken an approach of "show, don't tell." Rather than solely ...
Bring a Loupe: A Universal Genve Space-Compax, A Movado Tempograph, And An Early Navitimer
Happy Friday, and welcome back to Bring A Loupe! We're back to regularly scheduled programming with the Spring Geneva auction season wrapping up on Monday. The clear theme this week is chronographs. Maybe I'm just in a chronograph mood, or maybe it's completely by accidentwho's to say? Speaking of schedule, there will be no Bring A Loupe next week as your humble author is taking some time away from the mothership, Hodinkee HQ. Please express your sorrow and/or disdain in the comments! As for a recap from last go around, I'll save you an entire auction slate's worth of results. That said, some highlights are notable. At Phillips, the Vacheron repeater sold for CH...
The chairman of Cartier-owner Richemont is heaping praise on Swiss watchmakers who cut production in response to weak demand from China to avoid oversupplying the global market. Johann Rupert, who controls the Swiss-based luxury conglomerate that owns many brands including Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC, and Panerai, says some of the biggest names in watchmaking have adjusted volumes in response to the China-led downturn."I'm glad to say the majority of the people did that, and I can say people like Rolex did that, and people like Patek [Philippe] and AP [Audemars Piguet]. We all behaved sensibly,'' Rupert said on a conference call following Richemont's annual financial results.? ...
Hands-On: The Havid Nagan Classic One A Neo-Vintage Inspired Calatrava With A Case To Remember
Featured here on Hodinkee as One To Watch in the summer of 2022, Havid Nagan is a Los Angeles-based independent watch brand led by Aren Bazerkanian, an ambitious and entrepreneurial former real-estate agent and ex-F.P. Journe boutique manager with a deep appreciation for what I consider all the right vintage references. The Classic One is Havid Nagan's second case shape and first round watch, a follow-up to the cushion-cased HN00. Inspired by the classic dial layout of Patek Philippe's reference 96, the Classic One would similarly be lazily categorized as a "dress watch" but it's more than that. Like the first Calatrava and Baz...
To kick off the summer, Citizen Watches has launched its new UNITE with BLUE limited edition collection, featuring six new "Sea of Silence" models. The collection showcases deep blue dials inspired by the shimmering blue sea, using pigment-free ink with microstructures that create subtle color changes in response to light reflections, producing a range of mesmerizing blue hues and tones that mimic the ocean's ever-changing moods, the perfect complement to a summer spent outdoors, on (or under) the water. Citizen xC UNITE with BLUE The "Sea of Silence" collection spans multiple Citizen lines, including ATTESA, Promaster, PCAT, ...
Introducing: MB&F's Special Project One
MB&F just launched its slimmest and smallest watch ever, and it's a dress watch. No, seriously, a pair of time-only watches with a 38mm case offered in two metals. Now, of course, this is MB&F we're talking about, so the term "dress watch" is used very differently than how most other brands would. But the meaning is still apparent the new Special Project One is the brand's most compact, and in a sense, simplest, watch. Coming in either platinum or rose gold, the pebble-like case appears to hover inside the frame of the detached lugs, which are connected to the caseback. The 38mm case has a thickness of 12mm, not a slim watch by dress watch standards, bu...
Fran?ois-Paul Journe would not be denied. Several other bidders were willing to pay millions for the Breguet Pendule Sympathique No. 1 at the Phillips auction in Geneva this month. But it's unlikely they knew the 18-karat-yellow gold clock and its companion wristwatch quite as well as Journe. It was, after all, the sexagenarian Frenchman and his colleagues at Techniques Horlogres Appliques (THA) who had been commissioned by Breguet to design and build the timepiece some 35 years before.?Now that the object of horological history had returned to auction for the first time since 1991, Journe wanted it back. He sat in the front row on the far left of the room. Each time another bidder raised ...
Happenings: A New C.H. Meylan Exhibition Opens In 2026 At Espace Horloger In The Valle de Joux
In early 2026, the Espace Horloger, a watchmaking museum located in Le Sentier dedicated to work from the heart of Switzerland's valley of complications, will be hosting a new exhibition exploring the life and work of Charles-Henri Meylan. Meylan, one of the valley's greatest watchmakers in the early 1900s, had a prolific career working with major brands in Switzerland and the United States, as was partially explored in an article in Hodinkee from 2022. Georges-Henri Meylan holds a 32mm C.H. Meylan minute repeater and a 32mm C.H. Meylan chronograph in the Valle de Joux, Switzerland. Full disclosure, I was the author of that a...
Introducing: TAG Heuer Celebrates The 2025 Monaco Grand Prix With Three New Monacos
Put aside how the tight road course and giant Formula 1 cars of the current generation mix for the race C Monaco will always be the most iconic Grand Prix on the Formula 1 calendar, and you won't convince me otherwise. It's the one race I desperately want to go to some year, and it's also the one race that has yielded one of the most iconic watches in motorsport. So, for the inaugural year of the LVMH sponsorship of Formula 1, TAG Heuer is launching three new "Monacos" for the Monaco Grand Prix. We'll start with the TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph Stopwatch, a limited edition release of 970 pieces in a lightweight and durable DLC-coated titanium case measuring 39mm ...
Hands-On: The Zenith Chronomaster Original Triple Calendar Lapis Lazuli
It's not every day that we see a new stone dial chronograph. Sure, brands like Rolex, Omega, and Bulova are using meteorite for theirs, but it doesn't seem like any brand is really taking advantage of the countless other variations in colors and textures that we've seen spread to so many time-only watches. This year, for Zenith's 160th anniversary, a lapis lazuli dial now graces the brand's Chronomaster Original Triple Calendar in the reference 03.3400.3610/51.C910. And it is an absolutely stunning watch. Though this may be the only lapis-dialed chronograph (and most certainly triple calendar chronograph) available currently on the market, the design didn't come ...
Introducing: Zenith Goes Dark With The Defy Extreme Diver Shadow And Defy Revival Diver Shadow
One of the biggest hits of Watches and Wonders 2024 was the one/two punch of some new Zenith divers. One diver C the Defy Extreme Diver C had a distinctly modern flair with modern measurements to boot. The other C the Defy Revival Diver C played off the vintage ref. A3648 aesthetic and fourteen-sided bezel. Today, Zenith launches another pair featuring much the same specs but with a new aesthetic, with the new Shadow series of Defy Divers with microblasted titanium cases and green-yellow accents. The new Defy Extreme Diver features a 42.5mm by 15mm case with a 47.4mm lug-to-lug. That case houses an automatic El Primero three-hand...
Introducing: J.N. Shapiro Infinity Series Pure
The Infinity Series helped put J.N. Shapiro on collectors' radars when it launched in 2018, and now the next evolution of that model is here with the Infinity Series Pure, a watch with the signature guilloch and three-dimensional handsets that Shapiro is known for, but now in their thinnest and smallest case yet. Measuring 37mm by 8.8mm in stainless steel, the Infinity Series Pure is the new entry point to the brand and is priced to be within reach of a broader audience. The J.N. Shapiro Infinity Series Pure is available in two variations: one features white gold hands on a blackened zirconium dial, while the other offers rose g...
Introducing: The Longines Spirit Zulu Time 1925 (Live Pics And Pricing)
Longines just launched the latest in the Spirit Zulu Time line a two-tone take on the brand's popular travel watch in a year that marks the 100th anniversary of the brand's first watch that was capable of displaying two time zones. Aptly named the Spirit Zulu Time 1925, the new watch bears no resemblance to the vintage model referenced in its name, but carries on its legacy nonetheless with another entry in the brand's 39mm travel watch collection. In short, the biggest change seen in this latest variation of the 39mm Zulu Time is the beze...