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Year In Review: Video: The Watch I Wore Most In 2025, By Members Of The Hodinkee Family

40 watches for '25.

Best Mechanical Watches for Beginners: Picks After Years Of Testing

Looking for your first mechanical watch? We share proven, hands-on picks we’ve worn and tested, so you can start confidently without wasting time and money.

The Best GADA Watches After 10 Years of Hands-On Testing

Our hands-on GADA watch picks: durable, comfortable daily watches we’ve tested in real life (commutes, travel days, and weekend work) with specs and tradeoffs.

Watches, Wine, And Letting Taste Lead: Sommelier Jhonel Faelnar With TanTan Wang At UBS House Of Craft

From Burgundy to Grand Seiko: The Atomix beverage director reflects on why great objects reward patience.

Year in Review: the “Sleeper” Watches of 2025

How does one define a “sleeper” watch? We put together a guide a few years ago and basically came to the conclusion that a sleeper watch is one that is great but not obvious about it. A better framing might be that these are “if you know, you know” watches. They all have some attribute that makes them incredibly special but it’s not always readily apparent or widely understood.  Honestly, I love a sleeper and always have. I think it’s a natural focus for a collector, and as you see more and more watches, it paradoxically becomes more difficult to identify the sleepers, because nothing really “sleeps” when you’re highly engaged in a hobby like this.  Zenith G.F.J.  The Zenith G.F.J. is a sleeper because it’s so specific and so hard to see, it’s just not really out there all that much in the broader watch media landscape. But man, it’s great. It’s a tribute of sorts to Zenith’s history as true pioneers in chronometry, but the appeal for this watch to me is purely aesthetic. It’s a study in blue, with multiple tones in multiple materials and finishes. From a distance, it’s nice looking enough, but you really have to examine it close up, with a loupe, to get a sense of the contrasts and how special the use of lapis lazuli is in particular.  And then there’s the bracelet. The G.F.J. is rendered in platinum, and the case is fantastic, but on the full platinum bracelet (which effectively doubles the price of the watch) it really makes an impr...

Recap – The Best GMT Watches & World Timers of 2025

For globetrotters jumping across time zones, the most useful travel companion is a GMT or a more sophisticated world timer. Although cynics will counter that argument by whipping out a mobile phone or a smartwatch, there is nothing as reassuring and personal as your very own travel watch. Thanks to Louis Cottier’s ingenious solution in […]

One To Watch: Meet Quiet Club, And The Debut Watch That Offers A New Way Of Thinking About Time

From Asakusa to the American West Coast, a cross-continental trio shapes a modern independent atelier.

Hands-On: Breguet's New Classique 7225 Features Some Of The Industry's Most Impressive Watchmaking

Technicality and beautiful design is what Breguet was all about, today as much as 250 years ago.

Review: 'About Time: A Children's Guide To The History And Science Of Time'

As reviewed by a 9-year-old.  

The Best World Timer Watches We’ve Reviewed After a Decade of Testing

From microbrands to legacy Swiss producers, explore the best world timer watches our editorial team has ever reviewed.

Holiday Horology: Something Old, Something New, Something Special - Constant Kwong, Head of Partnerships and Video Content

Best of 2025: Independent Watchmaking

Independent watchmaking presented relatively few genuinely new releases in 2025. Many watchmakers instead reintroduced familiar models in new configurations or colourways - an approach typically associated with larger brands. The strongest releases were excellent, but they were few and far between. Our highlights reflect that: Urban Jürgensen’s relaunch stood out for its confidence and momentum, while Petermann Bédat and Raúl Pagès showed there is still room to say something new within the time-only format. Urban Jürgensen UJ-1 Tourbillon – SJX When I first heard about Urban Jürgensen being revived, I was sceptical. Could an investor halfway across the world and a watchmaker busy with his own brand pull it off? As it turned out, they could. The Rosenfields, Andy and Alex, father and son, and Kari Voutilainen, managed to put together a collection of three watches – all impressively conceived and executed – and then deliver a good number of watches in the months since the launch in mid-2025. The flagship of the Urban Jürgensen line-up and clearly its best creation to date is the UJ-1. A tourbillon with remontoir, the UJ-1 is modelled on the Oval pocket watch that was made by Derek Pratt for Urban Jürgensen. The movement instantly feels like it was descended from the Oval, which is a feat considering the disparity in scale. Mr Voutilainen managed to translate many of the key elements of the Oval into wristwatch format, including the “floating” barrel and...

Hands-On: The Reference 5308G 'Quad Comp' – Patek Philippe's Modern Vision Of High Complication Watchmaking

When the market demanded big watches, Patek held the course. Then, in its own time, the brand launched this maximalist, ultra-complicated watch that will define Patek's future.

Introducing – The Capri, The Shaped, Dress Watch Collection of De Rijke & Co.

Dutch watchmaker de Rijke & Co. is among those that get noticed by thinking differently. The brand’s debut Amalfi collection, launched in 2019, was built around a clever rotatable centre case inside an outer cradle, a concept that fused functionality and design ingenuity. For its second collection, the brand steps away from case mechanics and […]

Introducing: Hublot Wraps Up The 20th Anniversary Of The Big Bang With The Meca-10 Street Art Editions

The brand goes out with a (big) bang via four limited-edition watches that will be right at home in a Miami nightclub.

The Art of Bovet

The ABCs of Time – Your Guide to Functional Watch Bezels, From Diver to Tachymeter and Rare Ones

By and large, most information on your watch comes from the dial. Sometimes there are functions on the back, like a power reserve indicator or an addition to the case, like on the Pierre Kunz Spirit Diver with a Boyle-Mariotte depth gauge that can measure down to 80 metres. Functional watch bezels, however, add functionality […]

Why Grading Matters And How It Impacts The Value Of Your Collection

Standardized grading isn't just about understanding quality, it's about determining value.

The Revolutionary List : The Icons of 21st Century Watchmaking

Breaking News: Sotheby's Sale of the Audemars Piguet 'Grosse Pièce' Shatters Records, Becomes By Far Most Expensive Audemars Piguet At $7,736,000

The watch sold for $5+ million more than the next-highest non-charity AP ever sold.

First Look – Ressence Type 3 Marc Newson, A Meeting of Two Design Worlds

Ressence is not what one would call a conventional watchmaker, and let’s hope it never will be. Since its founding in 2010, Benoît Mintiens’ Antwerp-based brand has built its catalogue and reputation by rethinking what a mechanical watch should feel like rather than what it should represent. This time, Ressence reaches out beyond its own […]

The Revolutionary List: 30 Pioneering Watches – the De Bethune DB28 Tourbillon Kind of Blue

The Return of the Accutron Hum

In-Depth – The Superb Breguet Classique 7225, and the Refinement of the Magnetic Pivot

Until recently, for those who have followed Breguet‘s exploits in modern chronometry, one watch has long occupied a special place: the Classique Chronométrie 7727, from 2013. The 7727 demonstrated what high frequency could achieve when combined with silicon components and, quite provocatively, when magnetism, a force that watchmaking usually fears, was not only controlled but […]

Testing Two Generations of The Omega Seamaster: Is Newer Really Better?

Explore how the Seamaster 2254’s understated utility compares to the 300M’s refined luxury. Discover whether the new model truly earns its higher price.

A Collision of Creativity: Ulysse Nardin X URWERK UR-FREAK

Introducing: Biver Launches 11 New Variants Of The 'Automatique,' Including New Enamel And Stone Dials

The brand's second model has proven to be their most successful, and the new expansion should keep momentum going.

L.Leroy Osmior Bal du Temps: A return to the ballroom of complications

The Essence of Time: Bernhard Lederer and The Art of Escapement

The Audacious Ascent of Christopher Ward