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Issue 84

The Swatch x Audemars Piguet Royal Pop has brought the hype - and questions

With watch riots taking over social media once more, we are called upon to opine on a potentially game-changing collaboration, between Swatch and Audemars Piguet.

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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

Norqain VP Tobias Küffer on the unstoppable rise of the brand and its new place in the firmament of Swiss watchmaking

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POP MART

The Swatch x Audemars Piguet Royal Pop has brought the hype - and questions

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SOUL GEAR TRAIN

In a world of assembly lines and financial investments, Blancpain anchors itself in the realm of passion. By entrusting every Ref. 15GSQ to the hands of a single watchmaker, President and CEO Marc A. Hayek proves that the ultimate metric of a grand complication is not its part count, but its ability to make the wearer smile

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LOUIS VUITTON ESCALE RÉPÉTITION MINUTES

Developed by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, the new in-house LFT SO 13.01 manual-winding mechanical movement manages to pack a minute repeater, jumping hour and retrograde minutes, plus 80 hours of power reserve, into the 40mm rose-gold case of the Escale RÉPÈtition Minutes, and also synchronise two independent timecalculation systems - one for the striking mechanism and the other for the jumping hour - with the gliding reset of the retrograde minutes hand.

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INDEPENDENT SPIRIT

In a break from our usual standard, we sit down for a candid chat with not one but two leaders, Edouard and Bertrand Meylan of H. Moser & Cie

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CHANEL MONSIEUR SUPERLEGGERA BLEU EDITION

Part of the family of watches made of Chanel's recently developed black-blue matt ceramic, which took five years of development and was unveiled at Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025, the 42mm Monsieur Superleggera Bleu Edition took design cues from motor sports, especially race-car speedometers, for the arrangement of its complications on the enigmatic black guillochÈ dial: a generous jumping-hour indication at 6 o'clock, retrograde minutes tracked on a 240-degree circular scale at the top, and a small seconds subcounter in between.

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VAN CLEEF & ARPELS MIDNIGHT HEURE D'ICI & HEURE D'AILLEURS

Among the maison's Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026 highlights, the 38mm rosegold watch with a deceptively prosaic name meaning 'time here and time elsewhere' references its 2014 predecessor with the same set of complications - dual time zones with double jumping hours and a retrogrademinutes mechanism and the same dial layout: the baseline hour in the upper window, and the second time zone's hour in the lower window.

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THE NON-COMPLIANT CHRONOGRAPH

TAG Heuer made its most consequential statement in a generation at Watches & Wonders 2024: the most thoroughly transformed Monaco in decades and an entirely new category of chronograph that the industry will be studying for years

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X-RAY VISION

As precious metal costs soar, horology may find unexpected upsides in the art of removal. We explore how brands are utilizing openworking to elevate technical virtuosity to match rising prices

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TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

For the contemporary collector, a complication is more than a feat of engineering; it is an invitation to seek out a lineage of excellence. Whether it is Advanced Research at Patek Philippe or Hybris Inventiva at Jaeger-LeCoultre, we look at the specific breakthroughs - in sound, speed, and celestial tracking - that serve as the definitive anchors for the next era of watch collecting

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