Watches & Wonders 2026, Geneva, is currently watchmaking’s most bustling avenue. Returning in its 6th edition, over 65 maisons unveiled hundreds of exquisite novelties in attendance of over 60,000 (including retailers, enthusiasts, and journalists). While some maisons choose a bold, extravagant path, others conceal their technical cleverness in plain sight – either way, they make for a true spectacle of luxury horlogerie, all for the world to witness. As a milestone year, the annual watch fete pushed beyond the salon and into the city, reaffirming Geneva’s place as the capital of time.
Mastering evolution, celebrating legacies and paving new paths for the future, these are Watches & Wonders 2026’s most stunning new launches.
Bulgari Octo Finissimo Ultra Tourbillon
The new Octo Finissimo Ultra Tourbillon is (again) the world’s thinnest tourbillon watch, measuring a micro 1.85 millimetres thin – and now shining in platinum. Measuring 40 millimetres with a fully skeletonized architecture, the BVL 900 calibre’s mainplate gets a galvanized blue hue to match the dial’s blue dauphine hands. On its dial, the main attraction remains the flying tourbillon. Limited to 10 pieces.
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Chanel J12 Superleggera
First introduced in 2005, the Chanel J12 Superleggera returns in 2026 as a sharper expression of the maison’s sporting identity. Sized at 42 millimetres, it’s crafted in matte black ceramic and steel, balancing stealth with polish. The red Superleggera signature adds a subtle hit of energy, while the Calibre 12.1 inside delivers COSC-certified precision and a 70-hour power reserve.
Grand Seiko SBGD228 Red Lion
Grand Seiko Masterpiece Collection SBGD228 Red Lion takes the maison’s lion emblem and turns it into a bedazzling statement without losing an ounce of mechanical substance. Cased in 44.5 millimetres of 18-carat rose gold, it’s set with 267 diamonds and 26 garnets, framing over a deep red mother-of-pearl dial. Inside is the manually wound Spring Drive calibre 9R01, accurate to ±0.5 second per day, with an eight-day power reserve. Limited to just 8 pieces.
H. Moser & Cie Streamliner Mini
The H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Two Hands expands the collection with a more compact, intimate proposition, now in 34.2 and 28-millimetre steel cases. Both retain the Streamliner’s fluid integrated silhouette but introduce frosted fumé dials that feel richer and more tactile. The 34.2-millimetre model carries a silver fumé dial and HMC 400 Calibre, while the 28-millimetre pairs a burgundy fumé dial with the HMC 410. Both are automatic, offer 60 hours of power reserve, and water resistance of 120 metres. Secured by an integrated steel bracelet.
Hermès H08 Squelette
The Hermès H08 Squelette boldly skeletonizes one of the maison’s most distinctive modern designs with real intent. As the first skeletonized H08, it retains the collection’s softened square silhouette in a 39-millimetre DLC-coated titanium case with a black ceramic bezel. Its stripped-down dial features an ‘x’-shaped central design – it comes in a “Blue Zanzibar” edition and a slightly more sober grey option. It reveals the new automatic calibre H1978S, which delivers a 60-hour power reserve. More importantly, it celebrates Hermès’ prowess in technical watchmaking without losing its design legacy.
Hublot Big Bang Reloaded Kylian Mbappe
Re-engineering their flagship chronograph with Kylian Mbappé’s flair, Hublot’s new Big Bang Reloaded is limited to 200 pieces. Cased out of a striking combination of polished white ceramic and 18-carat King Gold, the bezel features a “trust yourself” engraving at 6 o’clock – nodding to Mbappé’s personal philosophy. The soul of the watch is an “open heart” HUB1280 Unico flyback chronograph movement, which is constructed out of 354 pieces and offers a 72-hour power reserve. Secured with an interchangeable fabric Velcro strap.
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IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Ceralume
IWC Schaffhausen is no stranger to meddling with exotic, innovative materials. Ceramule (their proprietary luminous ceramic technology) now drapes their definitive pilot’s watch. Blending ceramic powder with Super-Luminova pigments, it created a 45.5-millimetre fully luminescent case with a matching white dial and rubber strap. The IWC manufacture calibre 52616 is self-wound and offers a 7-day power reserve.
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Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Tourbillon Jumping Date
Limited to 100 pieces, this is exactly why Jaeger-LeCoultre is revered as the “watchmaker of watchmakers”. Slicing open the Master Grande Tradition Tourbillon Jumping Date, it reveals a mechanically magnificent 64-component tourbillon, a jumping date mechanism, and a 24-hour display, all powered by the Calibre Jaeger-LeCoultre 978. Framed by an 18-carat pink gold case measuring 42 millimetres, the blue enamelled dial sits over an open-worked barleycorn-patterned base.
Panerai Luminor 31 Giorni PAM01631
Adding to their high complication lineage, Panerai’s Luminor 31 Giorni PAM01631 revives one of the brand’s most historical properties, extended autonomy. Panerai’s pursuit of long-running movements dates back to mid-century military-employed calibres like the Angelus SF240. Continuing its story today, the new hand-wound P.2031/S calibre delivers a 31-day power reserve through four barrels. With a 44-millimetre Goldtech™ case, it features a skeletonized movement architecture, offering a peek into the four barrels powering the watch. With a total of 276 components, 21,600 vibrations/hour, 100 metres of water resistance, and a torque-limiter system designed to preserve chronometric stability, it truly bridges Panerai’s past with the future.
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Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Chronograph Mystérieux
Parmigiani Fleurier promises that you’ve never seen a chronograph this elusive before. The Tonda PF Chronograph Mystérieux hides its complication in plain sight, presenting itself as a restrained time-only watch until the mono-pusher at 7 o’clock sets the mechanical mastery in motion. Then the watch transforms, with the hands switching roles to measure elapsed time while preserving the dial’s calmness. Cased in 40 millimetres of steel with a platinum knurled bezel, it boasts a Mineral Blue Grain d’Orge guilloché dial. The new automatic PF053 calibre comprises 362 components, a 4 Hz column-wheel movement, and a 60-hour power reserve.
Piaget Altiplano Concept Tourbillon
Taking Piaget’s historic command of ultra-thin watchmaking, from 1957’s 2-millimetre calibre 9P to the original Altiplano Ultimate Concept, it now experiments with new materials. With a 41.5-millimetre cobalt-alloy case measuring 2 millimetres thin, Piaget integrates their pioneering, hand-wound 970P-UC calibre, a flying tourbillon, and 40-hour power reserve into an exquisite structure where case and movement become one. Furthermore, Piaget revives its 1960s “Style Selector” concept, which offers clients case colours and base ornamental stone options, including tiger’s eye, blue sodalite, jade, and onyx.
Roger Dubuis Excalibur Biretrograde Perpetual Calendar
Taking the Excalibur to astronomical new heights, it interestingly restores the biretrograde perpetual calendar from a 1989 patent (developed by Roger Dubuis and Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, dubbed the RD72 module). For 2026, it revives this historical architecture but not in a nostalgic-dress-watch form – instead, a fiercely assertive, mechanical complex Excalibur. In a 40-millimetre pink gold case, water resistant to 100 metres, the Excalibur Biretrograde Perpetual Calendar pairs its signature retrograde day and date displays with month, leap year, and an astronomical moon phase accurate for 122 years. The new automatic RD850 calibre comprises 435 components, beats at 4 Hz, carries the Poinçon de Genève, and offers a 60-hour power reserve.
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Cartier Roadster
The Roadster is an icon of a lost era – an era that embraces shapes, speed, and sharp curves. When it first appeared in the early 2000s, Cartier wasn’t looking back at classic codes or restrained designs. It responded to a different cultural mood: shaped by larger watches, sportier silhouettes, and swagger. The Roadster took that moment and translated it into Cartier’s own language: a tonneau case, concentric chapter rings drawn like a dashboard gauge, a date magnifier blended into the case flank, and a crown shaped to recall the tailfin lights of 1950s automobiles. Its return feels nostalgic and like the Roadster itself, exciting. In case sizes of 47 x 38 millimetres and 42.5 x 34.9 millimetres, material options span steel, yellow gold and steel, or yellow gold, with 100 metres of water resistance, QuickSwitch bracelets, and additional alligator or rubber straps depending on the model.
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TAG Heuer Monaco Evergraph
The Monaco has long been TAG Heuer’s designated testbed for material, mechanical, and cosmetic innovation. With the new Monaco Evergraph, TAG Heuer takes its signature racetrack-born chronograph to new territories. With the new TH80-00, TAG Heuer strips away much of the conventional chronograph mechanism and replaces it with two flexible nickel-phosphorus components, reducing wear while pursuing the same ideals Jack Heuer long prized: durability, reliability, and precision. Running at 5 Hz, COSC-certified, and offering a 70-hour power reserve, the Evergraph completely reengineers the chronograph.
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Ulysse Nardin [Super] Freak
It’s been a quarter century since the Freak freaked out the traditional notions of conventional watching – Now, Ulysee Nardin does it again with the [Super] Freak. Radical in every sense of the word, out of its 511 components, only 13 stay fixed, while twin 10-degree inclined flying tourbillons rotate in opposite directions. Set in a 44-millimetre white gold case, the timepiece is powered by a self-winding UN-252 calibre with a 72-hour power reserve. This mechanical maestro took 4 years of R&D and about 60 hours of manual assembly. As a first for the Freak family, it introduces a seconds display. Arguably the “most complicated time-only watch ever”, it’s limited to 50 pieces.
Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921
Originally conceived for the American market, at a time when motoring prowess, bold exploration, and Art Deco elegance were reshaping the world, the Historiques American 1921 has always been an oddball. As one of the most definitive early wristwatch era titles, Vacheron Constantin reignites that same spirit for 2026. Introducing a matte-grained silver-toned dial with vivid blue accents in 36.5 millimetres and 40 millimetres pink gold cases. Beneath that calm surface, the manual-winding calibre 4400AS offers a 65-hour power reserve and bears the Hallmark of Geneva.
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