The best new watches of October 2026 range from an $8,600 Hermès to Patek Philippe’s $337,585 platinum Ref. 5978P, with Hublot, IWC, Parmigiani Fleurier, URWERK, Ulysse Nardin, MB&F, and Ressence all ...

As power shifted toward the secondary watch market over the pandemic and crypto-boom years, value retention became the new acid test that crowns industry leaders. While collectors once viewed auctions ...

Most Philippe Dufour Simplicity watches change hands quietly, between collectors who waited years for the privilege. Simplicity No. 199 is taking a far less conventional route. On October 29, Wilsons ...

The first full week of watch auction results for October 2026 is in, and its top price came on the last morning. At Phillips New York on October 9, lot 22, a Voutilainen 28Sport in stainless steel ...

Most watches are made to be looked at. For its first 28 years, Jacob & Co. made watches for exactly that purpose: big, bright, gem-set, and impossible to miss across a room. Then, in 2014, the Maison ...

At 3 PM local time on Sunday, October 4, which is 3 AM ET, the lights go out at the Sepang International Circuit in Kuala Lumpur for one of the stranger fixtures on this year’s calendar. Round 16 of ...

Every few years, Patek Philippe packs up a piece of Geneva and sends it somewhere new. Since 2012, its “Watch Art” Grand Exhibitions have traveled from Dubai to Munich, London, New York, Singapore and ...

Today, Patek Philippe opens its “Watch Art” Grand Exhibition in Milan, and much of the attention will rightly go to the seven limited editions made for the occasion. But the same month brings a launch ...

Blue has been the safe choice in fine watchmaking for so long that it’s easy to forget it can still surprise. This fall, it did. In a single week in late September, Vacheron Constantin, Breguet, Grand ...

Roger Dubuis closes its Knights of the Round Table trilogy with Excalibur The Metamorph Merlin, a limited edition of 28 timepieces inspired by Merlin’s legendary ability to shapeshift. The creation ...

The Cartier Tank (from the quartz Tank Must to the hand-wound gold Tank Louis Cartier) and the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso (hand-wound Calibre 822 throughout its Classic range) are the only two ...

The fall 2026 watch auction season runs from a New York collector-fair weekend in mid-October through a compressed, three-day Geneva week on November 7–9 — Phillips’ Geneva Watch Auction: XXIV, ...