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 ...

Classic car collectors have had their concours for nearly a century: the lawns, the judges with clipboards, the long-hidden barn find that suddenly steals the show. Watch collectors, for all their ...

Seth Semilof co-founded Haute Living and, with business partner Kamal Hotchandani, launched Haute Time, the brands' luxury timepiece site, to educate buyers about the best watches in the world and to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...