Gone are the days when Tudor was shyly staying in the shadow of its big brother. Now, the Swiss brand has a huge new manufacture, beautiful campaigns and spectacular novelties every year.

The family-owned Chopard, mainly known for its dreamy jewellery, for the Cannes connection and for its wonderful Mille Miglia watches, has taken one more step in its extraordinary journey towards full sustainability.

Zenith is debuting a brand-new Pilot collection that has been completely redesigned. The two new models, the Pilot Automatic and the Pilot Big Date Flyback come in steel or ceramic cases (with iterations that showcase a full-ceramic version, including the bracelet).

Patek Philippe unveiled many novelties at Watches and Wonders 2023, from the Grandmaster Chime, the Minute Time Repeater and Annual Calendars, to numerous iterations of the Calatrava models and many more amazing timepieces. Here are a few of them...

When you enter the Van Cleef & Arpels booth, you travel back in time to the Belle Epoque, cradle of the Art Nouveau style, which is making such a big comeback. In fact, it has never left.

GrandSeiko presented their first ever mechanical chronograph - the Tentagraph, the name coming from its features: ten beats per second, three days power reserve, automatic chronograph.

Born in 2012, the Octo had a huge impact on the watchmaking communities over the last decade, becoming synonymous with a profoundly innovative and powerful Italian-style design that enriches Swiss watchmaking art – and with Bulgari’s uncanny ability to renew and reinvigorate its hallmark aesthetic.

I will freely admit it took me a while to warm up to Roger Dubuis watches - for a while I felt they were too far away from “normal” horlogerie. However, as time went by and I got closer to the watches, I started to understand and like the brand, exactly because it keeps veering away from “normal” horlogerie. This year is no exception, from the robot dog prowling around the Roger Dubuis booth, to the sci-fi watches embodying the hyper horology concept invented by the brand.

My love story with Vacheron Constantin started in 2007, when I first became aware of their incredible savoir-faire, fully displayed in the first set of the “Metiers d’Art” series of masks. Ever since, there has been year after year of extraordinarily beautiful and complicated watches – even now I think their Aerostiers series is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened in watchmaking and will never be matched.