19 pieces
Watches
Independents, microbrands, and the majors when a release is genuinely new. The movement, the case size, what it costs, and who it is honestly for.
Watches/Bulova
Bulova Lunar Pilot 'Black Hole'
A smaller 41-millimeter case and a 48-millimeter lug-to-lug bring real proportion to a chronograph that once ran larger, $1,650.
$1,650
Watches/Audemars Piguet
Audemars Piguet Supersonnerie Royal Oak and Code 11.59
A soundboard carrying specially designed gongs lets this minute repeater's chime escape the case instead of the movement absorbing it.
Price on request; Audemars Piguet indicates prices above $424,500
Watches/Montblanc
Montblanc Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph 43mm Limited Edition
This Montblanc Star Legacy chronograph tracks seconds and minutes on two rotating discs that mimic Rieussec's original ink drums, $9,800.
$9,800
Watches/Casio
Casio CMK-100 Titanium Field Automatic
The Maystone Skybreaker holds its $400 price with a mecha-quartz movement, while this one spends the same range on a titanium case and a real Miyota automatic.
$445
Watches/De Bethune
De Bethune DB25 Digitale
This De Bethune DB25 Digitale jumps its hour instantly at twelve and tracks the moon to within one day every 1,112 years, $128,600.
$128,600
Watches/HTD
HTD Hesagraph RitmoCorsa
Three recessed sub-dials and a box sapphire crystal sit atop a 39-millimeter steel case that sold out entirely at $2,351.
$2,351
Watches/Tissot
Tissot PRX Quartz Chronograph
This Tissot PRX Quartz Chronograph runs a 1/10-second subdial off a 38-month battery, $525 in full steel.
$525
Watches/Christopher Ward
Christopher Ward C63 Sealander Yalos
The C63 Sealander Yalos trades lume and complications for a time-only dial in 904L steel, priced $1,815 on strap.
$1,815
Watches/Bell & Ross
Bell & Ross BR-05 Chrono Snow Rocket
Bell & Ross built this chronograph around Simon Billy's 255.50 km/h speed-skiing record, with a case rated to 100 metres, $7,700.
$7,700
Watches/Lebond
Lebond Norman Foster
The Lebond Norman Foster grows its FKM rubber strap straight out of a lugless titanium case, $3,900.
$3,900
Watches/Alto
Alto ART 02
The Alto ART 02 runs a micro-rotor caliber built with Cercle des Horlogers inside a faceted titanium case, $15,700.
$15,700
Watches/Louis Moinet
Louis Moinet 1816 Tourbillon Chronograph
The 1816 Tourbillon Chronograph runs a flying tourbillon and a column-wheel monopusher off one 96-hour reserve, $135,000.
$135,000
Watches/Hanhart
Hanhart 417 ES × 0260 & BAIT
A hand-wound Sellita SW510 M ticks at 28,800 vibrations per hour inside this 39-millimeter steel chronograph case, $3,300.
$3,300
Watches/A. Lange & Söhne
A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Perpetual Platinum Bracelet
A platinum Datograph Perpetual adds a five-row in-house bracelet to the flyback chronograph and perpetual calendar, priced only on request.
Price on request; not published by the maker
Watches/Breitling
Breitling Navitimer B09 and B02 Cosmonaute 41mm Chronographs
Two Navitimer chronographs, the manual B09 and the 24-hour B02 Cosmonaute, run from $7,900 to $11,000 in 41-millimeter steel cases.
$7,900
Watches/Lebois & Co
Lebois & Co Heritage Small Seconds
A 37.8-millimeter stainless case houses the COSC-certified LC-350 inside this Lebois Heritage Small Seconds, $2,950 on either strap.
$2,950
Watches/Oris
Oris ProPilot Calibre 111
This Oris ProPilot Calibre 111 hand-winds once for ten days of running time, $7,150 on strap.
$7,150
Watches/Maystone
Maystone Skybreaker Chronograph
Maystone's Skybreaker runs a mecha-quartz chronograph with a cam-driven pusher snap, $400.
$400
Watches/Selten
Selten Yum Cha
Yum Cha names itself after tea and dim sum, and paints that memory in enamel that will not fade on a $4,900 case.
$4,900
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