ROOM NEAR THE TOP

While the present sees the top brands in watchmaking consolidating their positions, there is certainly room near the top for a few dark horses

INDEPENDENT THINKING

We follow up on our own dark predictions from 2022, and suggest some solutions to persistent problems. The story begins with embracing independent watchmakers, who do not only operate at stratospheric price brackets

Platinum - The Most Noble Of Metals To Grace Watchmaking

Arguably the most noble of metals to grace watchmaking, platinum is frightfully difficult to come to grips with. Even so, the economic stars are looking right for this incredibly dense white metal to figure ever more prominently in watchmaking. We shed some light on the topic in our annual materials special

Travel At A Click

Travel at a click. The Breguet Marine Hora Mundi 5557offers an instant-change dual-time function with memory function

Ulysse Nardin And The Ocean Race Come Together For A Really Good Cause

Ulysse Nardin and The Ocean Race come together for a really good cause

The Conversation: Getting Phygital

Physical watch fairs are back, and the editors of WOW are all-in on the experience, even if they are not so keen on the word phygital. Of course, they also cheerfully educate each other on some watches…

QUESTION TIME

The Cartier Masse Mystérieuse is a haute horlogerie challenge, and a poetic challenge to one’s senses

EXTRA TIME

Right after Watches & Wonder Geneva closed, Patek Philippe surprised everyone with a technically complex 1/10th of a second chronograph

KANAZAWA ON A DIAL

The Seiko Presage Craftsmanship Series presents a new watch with a sublime Urushi dial

HOLY DIVER

The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Tourbillon 8 Jours might be the most beautiful dive watch ever made…

NEW CROWN

The Tudor Black Bay Pro needs no explanations, and may well be worth waiting for

NAVIGATIONAL WIZARDRY

Radio Navigation at centre stage on Bell & Ross’ latest instrument

NEW VIBES

The Hublot Big Bang Tourbillon gets a complete makeover

HORN SECTION

How the wristwatch would never have become the convenient and preferred means of wearing a timepiece, without the advent and simplicity of lugs or horns

CERAMIC MAGIC

Adventure takes the centre stage with Rado’s new Captain Cook High-Tech Ceramic Divers

TRIPLE THREAT

Moritz Grossmann CEO Christine Hutter re-introduces us to the brand, which we have been following from afar. Hutter is possibly the only independent founder, owner and business leader at a watchmaking firm who also happens to be a watchmaker

PRECIOUS TIME

With steel watches still streaking, collectors may want to shift their attention to more personal propositions. Nothing is more personal than a yen for precious metals

CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC

The Rolex Oyster Perpetual Lady-Datejust presents an exquisite collection of elegant timepieces for every occasion

TOTAL AIR SUPERIORITY

The Blancpain Air Command represents a new chapter for the manufacture, and is perhaps one of the most intriguing flyback chronographs in the world. We explain why

WINTER WONDERS

The ethereal winter land of Japan inspires the latest Grand Seiko masterpieces

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

For a magazine obsessed over buying watches, not being allowed to buy them is strange. The editors of WOW Singapore and Thailand discuss the current state of affairs, and make a bold prediction or two…

FLIGHT PLAN

We get up close and personal with the Blancpain Air Command models, with which the brand hopes to open new frontiers

TIMELY DESIGNS

Watchmaking has a difficult relationship with design. All too often good wristwatch design ideas make for unworkable creations. Nevertheless, industrial designers are having a go at offering alternative visions of watchmaking - some of these might yet become icons

STRONGER FORCE

CEO Davide Cerrato on the future steps of the revived

REPEAT OFFENDER

Patek Philippe continues its quest to create the world’s best chiming watches with Ref. 5750 Advanced Research

CRYSTAL CLEAR

In this instalment of our regular buying guide, we explore the considerations for watch crystals, overlooked at times but nevertheless one of the most crucial components of a watch

COMMEMORATIVE MASTERPIECES

Patek Philippe creates precious keepsakes to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Cortina Watch

AUTHENTIC LEGEND

The OMEGA Speedmaster gains a level of nobility with the use of Canopus Gold™

ALL TOMORROW'S WATCHES

Is time really money, and what does that even mean? We present an overview of the current state of demand for timepieces, and the lessons we might all want to learn going forward

THE AGELESS ONE

The Cartier Tank has easily withstood the test of time and will continue to do so for many years to come!