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WatchPro

What the hell is happening with Rolex, Audemars Piguet and Patek Philippe prices?

Dueling secondary-market reports from Morgan Stanley/WatchCharts and EveryWatch expose how methodology drives the Patek Philippe narrative: unweighted, Patek's value retention looks like a chart-topping 75.4%, but only 52% of its catalogue clears retail, with Calatravas and Complications deep underwater while Nautilus and Aquanaut command steep premiums. That polarisation threatens Patek's build-a-profile allocation model, since customers are now asked to eat real losses on entry watches for the promise of a sports piece, whereas Rolex (75.8% of references above retail) and AP (68%) have calibrated supply so a collector can climb the ladder without bleeding money.

WatchPro

Laings opens immersive showroom and workshop in Glasgow’s Argyll Arcade

Laings has reopened in Glasgow's Argyll Arcade with a showroom built around its first open workshop, where glass-panelled bays let clients watch repairs, alterations and bespoke commissions happen live, plus same-day engraving. It's the retailer's fifth UK location and a return to the Arcade a year after decamping to its Buchanan Street flagship, a bet that theatre and visible craft now drive footfall as much as the product does.

WatchPro

How switch from Google search to AI questions is benefiting Rolex

AI analyst 5W ran 60-plus watch queries across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI, and found Rolex is the near-automatic answer to the unqualified "best luxury watch" prompt, while rivals only surface on narrower questions (Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet for "investment" or "grail," Tudor and Grand Seiko for "value," Omega for "alternative to a Rolex"). As buyers migrate from search to AI, the takeaway for brands is blunt: own a specific qualifier or be invisible, since the engines hand each question to a single winner rather than spreading recognition around.

WatchTime

The Diverse Universe of Christopher Ward Watches

WatchTime traces Christopher Ward's arc from a 2004 Thames boat trip and a Berkshire chicken shed to a direct-to-consumer stalwart of the British watchmaking revival, using four watches to tell the story: the titanium C1 Bel Canto sonnerie au passage ($3,795), the integrated-bracelet Twelve in 36mm titanium ($1,895), the C65 Super Compressor Elite, and the C60 Trident Pro 300. The through-line is the brand's founding bet: bypass retail markups, price ambitious complications and Sellita-powered divers below what the market expects, and let value do the marketing. The 2008 tie-up with Synergies Horlogères (merged in 2014) is what gave the DTC model its technical credibility, the real engine behind the rise.

Revolution Watch

Museum Piece

Vacheron Constantin has released the second chapter of its Métiers d'Art Tribute to Great Civilisations collection, four 42mm white and pink gold pieces (Buste d'Akhénaton, Lamassu de Sargon II, Athéna de Velletri and Tibre de l'Iseum Campense) built with the Louvre, each dial swapping 2022's sculpted gold for stone glyptics sourced from the same quarries as the originals, roughly 220 hours per dial on the Caliber 2460 G4/2. Limited to 15 pieces each, price on request, boutique-only. The commercial tell is that these commissions exist to keep endangered crafts (glyptics, micro-mosaic, champlevé) and their artisans alive: there is no volume market for coin-sized stone cameos, so the maison manufactures the demand to preserve the skill.

Worn & Wound

The Raymond Weil A.R.T. Collection

Worn & Wound goes hands-on with Raymond Weil's A.R.T. collection, the brand's first integrated-bracelet watch, launched for its 50th anniversary and priced from $1,995 in 38mm and 30mm sizes on the Sellita-based RW4200. They praise the Genta-esque design, the 38mm case that wears larger than its size, and touches like the rounded date window, but fault the bracelet's rigidity and lack of microadjustment. The trade takeaway: Raymond Weil is planting a flag in the crowded sub-$2,000 integrated-bracelet segment against the Tissot PRX, Maurice Lacroix AIKON, and Venezianico Arsenale.

aBlogtoWatch

The German Military Squad Watch: Laco Atacama.3 46mm Automatic Review

aBlogtoWatch reviews the Laco Atacama.3, a 46mm DLC-coated steel "Squad Watch" with 500m water resistance, a 12 o'clock crown, a countdown bezel, and a Sellita SW200 automatic (offered in four movement-execution options), priced at $1,350 on rubber and $1,450 on the DLC bracelet. They praise it as a spirited, ergonomic tool watch, singling out the articulating lug joint that flares out or bends inward to make a big 46mm case wearable on small and large wrists alike, and call it hard to argue with functionally at the price. The one trade detail worth noting: the aggressive customization menu, which the reviewer warns risks customer choice paralysis.

Fratello

Do New Dials And Colors For Hamilton’s Khaki Navy Scuba Lineup Do The Trick?

Hamilton has refreshed its Khaki Navy Scuba lineup for 2026: the 40mm Scuba Auto three-handers (40mm case, 100m, H-10 caliber) get new wave-textured lacquered dials and colors including a turquoise variant, priced at €895, while the 43mm Scuba Auto GMT (300m, H-14 caliber) adds black and navy-blue dial options at €1,445. Both come on non-tapering steel bracelets or rubber straps. The Khaki Navy sits in a crowded affordable-diver field where Hamilton's own Swatch Group siblings Certina, Mido, and Tissot are the ones to beat, so the brand leans on its signature 13-24-hour field-watch scale to differentiate.

SJX Watches

Moser’s Repeater is Cosmic, Cylindrical, and Skeleton

H. Moser & Cie. has released the Endeavour Minute Repeater Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Cosmic Rain (ref. 1909-0501), a 40mm, 14.4mm-thick titanium skeleton repeater with a domed aventurine dial inlaid with mother-of-pearl in the Japanese raden style. Powered by the automatic cal. HMC 909 with a cylindrical-hairspring flying tourbillon, it's limited to 20 pieces at CHF350,000 before taxes, sold through Moser boutiques and retailers. Notable commercially: the HMC 909 was developed with MHC (now owned by Timeless), placing Moser among a growing roster of high-complication clients even as its Precision Engineering sister company keeps the hairspring in-house.

Hodinkee

The Ming 37.06 Royal Selangor Limited Edition

Ming teams with Malaysian pewter house Royal Selangor for the 37.06, an 88-piece limited edition with a dramatically hammered pewter dial made in Kuala Lumpur, hour markers and logo engraved and lumed on the underside of the top sapphire crystal, and a 38mm brushed grade-2 titanium case (11.05mm thick, 44.73mm lug-to-lug) housing the customized Sellita for MING SW300.M1. All 88 pieces are assembled locally in Kuala Lumpur rather than Switzerland, and each ships in a Royal Selangor pewter presentation box. Priced at CHF 5,000, available through Ming and Royal Selangor boutiques.

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Monochrome Watches

The Sicura Hexa 400 Marks the Return of a Forgotten Swiss Tool Watch Name

Sicura, the dormant Grenchen name absorbed into Breitling by 1993, returns under Netherlands-based D Group (also behind Blanchet and Stewart Dowson, with ties to Squale) via the Hexa 400, a 40mm steel diver reviving the 1968 Diver 400's hexagonal case and dual-crown layout. It runs a Sellita SW200, hits 400m water resistance with a ceramic bezel and an inner dual-time ring, and ships on a micro-adjust bracelet for EUR 1,450. Reviving a defunct tool-watch name at that price is a shrewd play in a crowded sub-2K diver segment where heritage credentials, even forgotten ones, still move product.

Also at: Fratello

Hodinkee

The DOXA SUB Army 200T For Hodinkee Limited Edition

Hodinkee's first DOXA collaboration revives the ultra-rare 1969 SUB Army, built into the modern SUB 200T case: 39mm wide, 41.5mm lug-to-lug, 10.7mm thick, in raw 316L steel with a sand dial, checkerboard track, "Hodinkee Grey" anodized aluminum bezel (a deliberate patina play over ceramic), 200m water resistance, and a Sellita SW200-1a. It runs on a Sellita movement behind a closed engraved caseback, ships on a taupe rubber strap with a grey NATO, and is limited to 250 pieces at $2,000, sold through the Hodinkee App and Watches of Switzerland.

Hodinkee

TAG Heuer, Team Ikuzawa, And Bamford Return With A Second Collaboration

TAG Heuer, Bamford, and Team Ikuzawa are back for a second act: a 39mm x 13.86mm Carrera "Glassbox" chronograph in steel with a white Clous de Paris dial, red accents, and the chronometer-certified TH20-10 (80-hour reserve, 4Hz), delivered on a 7-row bracelet with two extra straps. It is limited to 150 individually numbered pieces at $10,500, available now. The collaboration signals TAG Heuer's play for the design-and-community crowd via Mai Ikuzawa (now a Bentley creative director) rather than the mass-market F1 audience: a niche halo project rather than a volume driver.

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Fratello

The Bianchet Rotondo UltraFino Rose Gold: A Stunning Take On Contrast

Bianchet has added a rose gold version of its Rotondo UltraFino, pairing an 18K rose gold case (39.5mm, 8.9mm thick, 100m water resistance, 5,000g shock resistance) with a black PVD-coated Grade 5 titanium in-house UR01 movement featuring a 60-second flying tourbillon, 3Hz frequency, 60-hour reserve, and a solid rose gold rotor. It's priced at CHF 85,500 on rubber straps or CHF 119,500 with the full rose gold bracelet. Bianchet's material contrast play is a smart differentiation bid in the crowded, high-margin integrated-bracelet segment where standing out increasingly justifies six-figure asks.

SJX Watches

SJX Podcast: Second-Chance Watches

Episode 47 of the SJX Podcast has SJX and Brandon running through recent releases from Seiko, IWC, and Swatch before revisiting technically ambitious watches that never caught on, including the Vacheron Constantin Twin Beat Perpetual Calendar, the Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars AP Escapement, the TAG Heuer Monaco V4, and the Breguet Hommage à Nicolas G. Hayek 7887.