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Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like ”tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...

Perpetual calendars, as a mechanism, are a natural extension of a watch’s function. A simple time-only watch will give you hours and minutes, maybe seconds too, every 24 hours (one single rotation of ...

The perpetual calendar, prized for its convenience and praised for its complexity, has become a hallmark of watchmaking proficiency. But even among the brands that are good enough to make them, there ...

Audemars Piguet’s first crop of newness this year celebrates the brand’s status as one of Switzerland’s oldest brands. This year marks the company’s 150th anniversary, and it is marking the occasion ...

Inside the carpeted confines of the Palexpo convention center in Geneva—home to the annual Watches and Wonders fair, which this year ran April 1-7—the anxieties and distractions of the wider world ...

As we observe the leap year on Feb. 29, it’s a fitting time to explore five unconventional perpetual calendar watches that put a fresh twist on one of watchmaking’s oldest complications, which ...

As part of the Complications, Simplified series explaining the complex mechanisms that add functionality – or complications – to mechanical watches, HYPEBEAST looks at how the Perpetual Calendar kept ...

Having spent all week on the sunny shores of Lake Geneva for Watches and Wonders 2025, I've got a pretty good insight into the industry at large. This year offered further proof that the luxury watch ...

They call functions on mechanical watches "complications" for a reason, but sometimes things get so complicated that it's time to start over. That's the reasoning that led MB&F and Irish watchmaker ...

THE NOVELTY TIMEPIECES SHOWCASED BY IWC Schaffhausen at Watches & Wonders 2024 were large. Arabic numerals and slim, leaf-like hands indicated the time on dials ringed by a railway-track style chapter ...