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.

My strategy for the past two Watches and Wonders has been to save Rolex until the very last day, so I can enjoy it fully, without hurrying to the next appointment.

Czapek (formerly partner of Patek) is riding the zeitgeist wave, after even taking a break last year from launching new models, because demand was too high and the brand is still struggling to honour the orders by customers in the last years.

The Maison Hermès has fought for and won a well-deserved place at the haute horlogerie table, consistently building an impressive roster of well-built, innovative, quirky, ludic, poetical, fanciful, very Hermès timepieces.

For IWC, this is the year of the Ingenieur, as the supercharged brand pays homage to the Ingenieur SL Jumbo Ref 1832, a legendary antimagnetic watch designed by famed Gerald Genta in 1976. As the brand officials take pains to underline, the new Ingenieur models are not remakes of the 1976 watch, but new timepieces created with a legend in mind.

Montblanc presented its latest round of timepieces at Watches and Wonders 2023, from the new 8000 capsule collection (an homage to the world’s 14 highest peaks), to the limited-edition 1858 Ice Sea Coffret set that comes in a spectacular presentation case.

Bell & Ross revealed three novelties at WatchesandWonders, where the watchmaker is present for the first time. The brand keeps the utilitarian-retro style, the innovative design inspired by classic military watches.

This year, Jaeger-LeCoultre is celebrating the Reverso, a legendary watch that is all about the golden ratio and the everlasting search for perfection. We were privileged to see true masterpieces of technics and beauty at Jaeger.

Piaget, the haute horlogerie and haute joaillerie brand that I still associate with the elegance and joie de vivre embodied by Yves Piaget, is presenting a very balanced collection this year, showcasing their watchmaking and jewellery skills.

”For Panerai, 2023 is the year of the Radiomir, which is the subject of ”Una Storia Legendaria” (A Legendary Story). Radiomir is actually the name of the luminous paste patented in 1916 by Guido Panerai. Radiomir illustrates the brand’s heritage, Italianity, know-how and its links to the world of the sea,” writes Raluca Michailov after visting the brand at Watches and Wonders.