Table of contents for Spring 2026 - Issue 60 in REVOLUTION WATCH

When it comes to watches, three interesting phenomena have emerged that, in my opinion, will shape the future of horology. Number one, for the first time in my recollection, there is a genuine internationalism as to where groundbreaking watchmaking is taking place. For decades, watches produced outside of Switzerland were largely seen as the domain of quirky, scrappy start-ups. We admired the can-do spirit of brands emerging from places as varied as Eastern Europe, Spain and mainland China, even if we didn’t always take their watchmaking seriously. That perception has now shifted dramatically, as truly compelling watchmaking is thriving in every corner of the globe. China, in particular, seems to have nurtured a new generation of horological voices that are wonderfully original. Chief amongst them is Fam Al Hut, which…

At this year’s LVMH Watch Week, Bvlgari reaffirms its ability to speak the language of Roman sensuality and Swiss horological precision with unmistakable fluency. Bvlgari is one of those brands whose “language” is hard to miss even if one were to dispense with the logo, and it’s a little game I sometimes like to play, because it can often reveal two things — one is just how strong a brand’s aesthetic codes are, and two, let’s be fair, how intimate our knowledge of these codes really is. When it comes to Bvlgari, I’m a diehard convert, and diving into these two releases, I love that they both deliver something delightful and new while adhering to the Bvlgari lexicon. This year, under the banner “Art of Gold,” the maison unveils two…

This year, Zenith has introduced several new timepieces united by a single theme: the Defy. With its angular case and integrated bracelet, the Defy has long been one of the brand’s most distinctive designs and this latest group of releases — from a simple 36mm model to a tourbillon — shows how the collection has evolved over the past six decades. DEFY SKYLINE SKELETON One of the most eye-catching watches in Zenith’s new lineup is the Defy Skyline Skeleton in black ceramic. While the Skyline Skeleton is not a completely new model, and black ceramic has appeared elsewhere in Zenith’s collection, here it feels entirely fresh. Here, the case is ceramic and the movement is skeletonized and gold-colored, allowing it to stand out in an otherwise saturated segment. The small…

When Arnaud Nicolas bought L’Epée in 2009, it was not the culmination of a long search, nor the result of a strategic plan. It was, as he puts it, “decided on the corner of a table, drinking a beer with a friend.” That friend was a watch enthusiast. Nicolas was looking for a gift — a clock interesting enough for a collector, but modern enough to live in a contemporary home. He couldn’t find one. Everything available felt either decorative in the wrong way or locked in the past. A few weeks later, in Switzerland, the conversation came back up. “I told him I was fed up because I couldn’t find the right clock,” Nicolas recalls. “He said, ‘I know a company that could do it — but it’s going…

Eco-Drive and light-powered technology have been the backbone of Citizen’s catalog for 50 years. In that time, it’s powered everything from cheap mall watches to high-end sat-com pieces, and the new Endeavor Chrono sits right in the thick of that line-up. It isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel because it doesn’t need to. It’s a meat-and-potatoes sports watch, but the ingredients have finally been upgraded to match modern expectations. At 43mm, the case is unapologetically large. It’s a bit of a slab on the wrist, helped along by 22mm lugs that give it a chunky, modern presence. While it avoids the cartoonish proportions of some divers, it’s still going to be a tough sell for the “sub-40mm” crowd. With 100m of water resistance, it isn’t a professional diver, but it’ll…

The Classics Manchette has always existed in a world closer to jewelry than watchmaking. It belongs to a lineage of 1970s cuff watches where time was secondary to form, and where the wrist was treated as a surface for design rather than a place to mount a mechanism. In this latest gold-and-onyx version, that idea is sharpened and clarified. The entire creation of the Manchette is as a single object. The case and bracelet are not separate elements but parts of one continuous structure, forming a rigid, cuff-like band that wraps the wrist. The square case does not sit on top of the bracelet so much as emerge from it as a part of the wider geometry. It feels carefully constructed rather than haphazardly assembled. The bracelet is the mainstay…

GEOFFROY ADER, INDEPENDENT WATCH CONSULTANT AND FORMER AUCTION HOUSE SPECIALIST “What 2025 has shown us is that we are now in a mature collectors’ market, with upward trends towards highly complicated wrist and pocket watches. Patek Philippe remains at number one, but the demand is strong for exceptional watches in general. “The Olmsted Collection at Sotheby’s New York was absolutely amazing and another example of the fact that wherever there are exceptional pieces, you will find exceptional prices. But, while everyone notices the records, there have also been strong prices for makes such as Jaeger-LeCoultre — so long as they are rare, new to the market and the sale is well publicized. But I think everyone’s mantra for 2026 should be: ‘Stop talking about numbers; start talking about watches…’” JONATHAN…

Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini have spent more than four decades shaping the mechanics of modern watchmaking. Their names seldom appear on dials, yet among the watchmakers who build and service the highest complications, their influence is regarded as foundational. As the technical core of La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, they have not only created movements but also defined the watchmaking identities of several maisons now entering new chapters. Their recognition as Revolution’s Horological Heroes acknowledges a contribution as deep as it is enduring. Their partnership began in the 1980s at Gérald Genta, then one of the most forward-leaning workshops in Geneva. It was an environment where chiming watches and complex regulators were not side projects but daily work. Within that context, Navas and Barbasini established the dynamic that…

Material innovation in watchmaking over the past two decades has often been most visible in cases and other external parts of a watch, and less frequently at the level where performance is actually determined. The Material Innovation award exists to recognize those rarer moments when the development and mastery of new materials are directed toward delivering meaningful performance gains rather than cosmetic effect. In that context, TAG Heuer’s carbon hairspring is a landmark achievement which addresses a foundational component of the mechanical watch and does so with a clear aim of industrial production. TAG Heuer marked the debut of its latest generation carbon hairspring with two limited edition chronographs — the Monaco Flyback Chronograph TH-Carbonspring and the Carrera Chronograph Tourbillon Extreme Sport TH-Carbonspring. The TH-Carbonspring represents the culmination of a…

Chanel’s J12 Bleu has won Best New Collection at the 2025 Revolution Awards because it does something deceptively difficult: it changes the J12 without disturbing it. No new case shape. No revisionist backstory. No attempt to turn the watch into something it has never been. Instead, Chanel alters one fundamental element and lets the consequences ripple across the entire collection. That element is color. Or more accurately, material. The J12 has always been about ceramic, not as a coating or a flourish but as structure. Black and white established the watch’s authority years ago. Bleu introduces a third state. It is not a bright blue and it does not follow current color trends. In low light, it reads almost black. In daylight, it opens up. The surface is matte and…

When it comes to shortlisting our candidates for the high jewelry category, our considerations extend well beyond mere sparkle and shine. We are a watch media, after all, and this means that our winner has to, first and foremost, be a genuine marriage of high jewelry and high horology, bringing together the finest arts of both. Indeed, the bar is high for this category given the raft of strong contenders this year. Tiffany & Co.’s Bird on a Flying Tourbillon – Azure Blossom checks all the boxes, beginning with the glorious diamond bespeckled bird perched on the edge of a flying tourbillon and set amidst a sea of appliqué lacquered flowers. Of course, this is an interpretation of Tiffany & Co.’s first flying tourbillon timepiece released last year, so in…

The Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M 30mm in Moonshine Gold wins our 2025 Revolution Award for Best Women’s Watch because it delivers a balance that even today sometimes remains elusive: true horological credentials without compromising the mechanics. While it looks like a simple, elegant everyday watch, the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M 30mm actually hides something far more serious. Behind the warmth of polished steel or moonshine gold is a co-axial master chronometer movement designed specifically for a woman’s watch. It’s not adapted or reduced, but engineered from the ground up, and that decision matters. It shows that Omega understands that women buying watches care about what’s inside, even if it isn't immediately on display. This is real horology built deliberately and without compromise. The collection itself boasts five references in…

In watchmaking discourse, “handmade” is often used casually to describe watches that are, in reality, hand finished. Handmaking is something else entirely. It entails fabricating every component from raw stock by hand, while deliberately excluding modern industrial processes. This means hand turning, hand milling, sawing, filing, drilling, shaping and finishing carried out on traditional, manual tools or manually operated lathes at the bench. The consequence is a scale of labor that bears no comparison to a process that begins with CNC-machined parts and proceeds to hand finishing, assembly and adjustment. This award exists to recognize that distinction, and the Greubel Forsey Hand Made 2 is its most natural outcome. The origins of Greubel Forsey’s Hand Made watches can be traced to the Time Æon Foundation, an initiative the brand helped…

The first issue of the year always invites a pause for any publication. Not a reset, but a reckoning with what the previous 12 months actually delivered once the fanfare fell away. This issue of Revolution is built around that assessment, beginning with the Revolution Awards 2025 on page 156, our annual attempt to take the measure of modern watchmaking without unnecessary sentiment or marketing fog. The awards look across technical watchmaking, decorative craft, and the individuals whose decisions, risks, and persistence shaped the year. They are voted for by the Revolution editorial team, which itself is made up of people who spend most of the year handling, wearing, disassembling, and questioning watches rather than simply announcing them. The judging process was, as ever, more difficult than it sounds. Last…

Gérald Genta was the latest name to join LVMH’s growing stable of revived top independents, having been brought back in 2023. The first result of this revival was the time-only Gentissima Oursin in 2024, a watch defined by an unmistakably bold design language. That was followed in 2025 by a high-complication minute repeater, housed in a cushion-shaped case that proved far easier to digest than the Oursin for a broader audience. This year, the attractive cushion-shaped case returns at LVMH Watch Week in a crowd-pleasing format: time only. The new Geneva Time Only is smaller and thinner than the repeater and, quite frankly, strikes the right note on multiple fronts. The design delivers genuine vintage vibes, while the build quality ensures a distinctly modern feel in the hand. ALL-NEW CASE…

It might not have been the most groundbreaking of Louis Vuitton’s launches last year, but the Tambour Convergence was certainly one of its most elegant. Certainly, the guichet-style watch is a measured flex of Louis Vuitton’s watchmaking maturity and in-house expertise in movement design, case-making and métiers d’art. Powered by a full rotor automatic base movement developed by La Fabrique du Temps, it came in a refined Tambour case that’s entirely produced and exquisitely finished in-house. This year’s release stays firmly on the same trajectory, with a clear emphasis on in-house capability and craft. As its name suggests, the Tambour Convergence Guilloché is, first and foremost, a magnificent showcase of the maison’s mastery of guilloché. As with its predecessors, the dial plate is the tabula rasa of choice, and here,…

The Chronometric Advancement award is issued to recognize advances in chronometry that meaningfully extend or exhaust the state of the art. While the Grand Seiko Spring Drive U.F.A. (for Ultra Fine Accuracy) does not compete on the same axis as conventional fully mechanical movements or chronometric solutions, its achievement is unambiguously chronometric in nature. Spring Drive extended the state of the art and the U.F.A. exhausted the paradigm it created. It improved Spring Drive’s usual precision of ±10 seconds per month by an order of magnitude, to ±20 seconds per year, becoming the most accurate mechanically powered wristwatch. The solutions are unique to Spring Drive, itself unique to Seiko and Grand Seiko, and without parallel anywhere else in watchmaking. To exclude it because it does not fit inherited categories is…

Despite heavy competition, Audemars Piguet’s RD#5 wins this category because it represents a genuine rebuild of the complication from the ground up. It arrives in the familiar 39mm Jumbo case, yet almost everything about the chronograph mechanism has been reconsidered with a focus on precision, efficiency and ease of use. The core of the project is the new movement, which replaces the longstanding hammer-and-heart reset system with a rack-and-pinion solution. This change is significant: energy is accumulated during operation and released in a single controlled action at reset, allowing the hands to return cleanly without vibration. It also makes possible a true instantaneous jump for the chronograph minute hand. The aim is not visual drama, but accuracy in how elapsed time is recorded. The coupling system follows the same logic.…

The world-time complication has remained consistent throughout its long history and is most closely associated with one name: Louis Cottier. The Genevan watchmaker filed his patent for a practical world-time mechanism in 1931, establishing the movement architecture that would define the complication for decades to come. While the world has changed and become increasingly interconnected, the complication itself has remained largely unchanged — which is precisely why Bovet’s innovation in the Récital 30 is so significant. At the heart of the Bovet Récital 30 lies a mechanism that debuted in the Récital 28 Prowess 1 — a system that eschews the traditional city disk altogether, in favor of 24 rollers, each with four city names. At a press of the selector pusher, a selector train engages a vast central wheel…

They are young, independent and unequivocally one of, if not the brightest, stars in the watch world today. Meet Fam Al Hut, the winner of our Rising Star Award. The one-year-old Chinese brand was founded by Chongqing natives Lukas Young and Xinyan Dai, both young entrepreneurs with a shared love for watches. According to Young, he started the brand <pending quote from brand>. And that is precisely what they accomplished with their debut piece, the Möbius Mark 1, which packs in plenty of horological firepower within what is a relatively compact space — and within such a short time. From the get-go, Fam Al Hut’s Möbius Mark 1 stands out. Its pill-shaped case eschews conventional luxury watch aesthetics and measures just 42.2mm by 24.3mm, with a height of 12.9mm —…

If we step back from the category of Best Sports Watch just a little and look at the sports landscape of the last 12 months, the sport of the moment is, without doubt, Formula 1. Thanks to its combination of dangerous curves, highly engineered machines and charismatic pilots, F1 has long been favored by watchmakers looking to promote their products to the right audience. In recent years, that underlying thrum has reached a fever pitch as global interest in F1 has exploded, turning it into a holy grail of sports endorsements. No one has captured this zeitgeist quite like IWC. Of course, it sponsors a team, but with F1: The Movie, a star (and cameo) studded cast brought viewers into the cockpit of an F1 car like never before, and…

“Icon”is one of the most overused phrases in watch journalism — yet for all its ubiquity, it’s a decidedly amorphous concept. What makes an icon? And what does a successful iteration of an iconic watch look like? Well, it’s a question that Piaget is well-placed to answer. Piaget has never had a problem creating recognizable designs. The watchmaker is one of the most compelling examples of a design-led manufacture out there, with expertise not just in ultra thin pieces, but also in high jewelry and bold shapes. One such example is a heavily stepped, cushion-cased timepiece that Piaget has officially renamed the Andy Warhol Watch (from 2024), a name drawn from the fact that the legendary Pop artist owned one back in 1973. As far as cementing icon status goes,…

Often, the phrase “he/she wrote the book on that” is used in a hyperbolic sense. In the case of Nick Foulkes, it is meant literally: he penned the iconic, officially certified tome on Patek Philippe and has since written two factory-authorized books on Rolex — one on the Submariner and the other on the Datejust — with many more to come. He has also helmed Vanity Fair’s watch magazine, On Time, with flair and distinction, contributed to innumerable publications on luxury and horology, and even appeared multiple times on Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed List, such is his tenth-dan black-belt mastery of the sartorial arts. Indeed, there is no greater expert in the world on subjects such as bespoke tailoring, shoemaking, shirtmaking, haute horlogerie and Cuban tobacco. He was voted the…

With a near-unanimous roar of approval from our team, the animalistic Panthère de Cartier takes the 2025 Revolution Award for Best Jewelry Watch because of its superlative expression of jewelry and watchmaking integration — with every sparkle of precious gemstone, Cartier celebrates gem-setting and form as expressions of mechanical beauty. First introduced by Cartier in the 1980s, the Panthère de Cartier watch took its name from the bracelet of the same name. Its ultra flexible structure evoked the sinewy movements of the maison’s emblematic animal. Panthère was first a bracelet, and the watch continues to place its ultra flexible, articulated structure and suppleness as central to its identity. The newest rose gold variation takes that approach to a bold graphic, gem-laden extreme: the time-telling aspect of the watch taking a…

Cheryl Chia One of the greatest technical minds in watch journalism today, Cheryl Chia is a renowned watch writer and Revolution’s technical editor. With a deep interest in independent watchmaking, movement engineering and decoration, she believes that watches can be assessed objectively in terms of complexity, quality and finishing. Israel Ortega Israel Ortega is the editor-in-chief of Revolution Mexico and Latin America editions, and has been chronicling the region’s vibrant watch culture since 2016. He is a fan of unique complications, but he believes that a classic chronograph is all one truly needs. From bold timepieces to eclectic beats, Israel looks to capture the essence of Latin style. Troy Barmore Until recently the Content and Community Manager of Revolution USA, Troy Barmore is a photojournalist who specializes in watches, luxury,…

This is your third collaboration with TAG Heuer, after a long gap. How did this one begin? It was very simple. I saw the new Glassbox Carrera and liked it immediately. They showed it to me in Japan and asked if I wanted to work on it. I said yes. That was it. Did you approach it differently from the earlier collaborations? Not really. Once I know what I want to do, I work quite quickly. I don’t sketch — I use a computer. I usually send an initial design within a few weeks. The longer part is always the development and production. What was the starting point visually? I always look at vintage watches. I prefer smaller, older proportions and clear layouts. That’s where everything begins for me. The…

The revival of Daniel Roth has been a fascinating one to follow, in large part because it has been carried out with an unusual degree of sensitivity and care. The watches have so far been faithful interpretations of the originals, distinguished by subtle yet substantive improvements in execution, materials and proportions, and supported by the development of entirely new-form movements by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton. The Extra Plat Rose Gold Skeleton marks the first step beyond this phase of reinterpretation, as the original Extra Plat — the C107 and C167 watches — were never skeletonized during the brand’s founding era under Daniel Roth. The skeletonized pieces most of us have in mind are the C127 with a retrograde hour, along with the C187 tourbillon and the C147 chronograph.…

While all the watches presented at LVMH Watch Week carry the Carrera name, this does not mean other pillars are likely to be sidelined this year. After a strong run of late-2025 Monaco releases, including the Flyback Chronograph TH-Carbonspring and Split-Seconds Chronograph Air 1, it would be surprising if Monaco didn’t resurface later in 2026. It almost certainly will. But for now, TAG Heuer is keeping things tight. What that reveals is three very different uses of the Carrera idea. One consolidates what is already working. One tests how far the name can stretch. And one unsettles things, just a little. CARRERA CHRONOGRAPH The TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph has quietly settled into its role as the modern center of gravity for the collection. Introduced in 2023, the Glassbox no longer…

January’s LVMH Watch Week presented Tiffany & Co. with the opportunity to reveal a cross section of its modern watchmaking — an area that has taken on a new life since the 2021 arrival of President and CEO Anthony Ledru and Vice President of Tiffany Horlogerie Nicolas Beau, who between them have decades of experience in watches and jewelry at maisons including Chanel and Cartier. Among the pieces for women (although, as Beau proves with his own eclectic mix of wristwear, any Tiffany watch can be worn by any person) was one inspired directly by a bracelet design from the company’s archives. The Enamel Watch takes its cue from a design by famed French jeweler Jean Schlumberger, whose work for Tiffany from the 1950s onward reshaped how color, surface and…

For decades, the Seahorse engraved on the back of an Omega Seamaster has functioned as shorthand. A quiet emblem of marine heritage, of protection and navigation. A link between watch and water that need no explanation. It was understood but rarely interrogated. Symbols, left unquestioned, risk becoming ornamental and detached from the realities they once represented. But Omega’s partnership with the Seamaster Seahorse Rescue Center in Marina di Ravenna brings the emblem back into focus. This is not a general airy link to conservation; it is a credible connection to a specific place, for a specific animal that has been etched into Omega casebacks since the 1950s. SAFEGUARDING THE SEAHORSE: A PARTNERSHIP IN ACTION The Rescue Center, supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), is the first facility…

Just before Christmas last year, A. Lange & Söhne offered an early treat in the form of Honeygold. The brand unveiled a very attractive limited edition Lange 1 Daymatic in its proprietary soft, warm Honeygold alloy, paired with a dark brown dial for a low profile and unmistakably upscale look that feels completely in character for the top German watchmaker. When the Lange 1 was launched in 1994, it immediately became a landmark because its asymmetrical dial layout was so well resolved that it settled into the minds of enthusiasts. This also meant that any added complication had to be introduced with care in order to preserve the familiar architecture. One of the most successful examples of this is the Lange 1 Daymatic from 2010. In addition to the typical…

The watch you are looking at is the result of almost three years of collaborative back and forth with independent watchmaking legend Bernhard Lederer. When I first set eyes on the movement of Lederer’s Central Impulse Chronometer, I was simultaneously enamored with the stunning architectural symmetry of his movement, his successful implementation of George Daniels’ Independent Double Wheel Escapement and his brilliant use of two remontoirs d’égalité — one on each of the two trains feeding energy to the escape wheels. Immediately, I began dreaming of a possible collaboration with him, which he and his wife Ewa, who is also his business partner, agreed to. The only caveat —as I was told — was that our watch would necessitate a lot of waiting. I’m talking about Gabriel García Márquez’s Love…

Grand Seiko has always defined itself by an unusual combination of virtues: watches that are not only made to the highest possible standards of quality and beauty, but also meant to be worn every day, with the precision, reliability and, at least in relative terms, affordability that such a role demands. That foundation remains unchanged. What has changed is the scope of the watchmaking itself, which has become more technically ambitious. The Kodo Constant-Force Tourbillon is the ultimate statement of that intent, but the brand has also done something that might be rarer than the pursuit of any complication — the invention of a new escapement. The self-winding Caliber 9SA5 and its hand-wound sibling, the 9SA4, are Grand Seiko’s most ambitious leaps in fundamental mechanical watchmaking to date, each built…

The Revolution Awards recognize the horological achievements that have shaped the past year: the watches that sought new technical solutions, the people who set those directions and developments that involved brands committing to the unknown. With the Awards program, we are not trying to summarize the year, we are instead recognizing moments where decisions were taken that will still matter long after the hype has died down. Looking back, 2025 stands out for the number of times established ground was deliberately disrupted. We saw brands return to questions they had previously parked, fully aware of the cost, time and uncertainty involved. Complications that had been considered mastered were taken apart and rebuilt, not because replacement was necessary, but because improvement was no longer possible without starting again. At the same…

This has been a year rich in technical advances on many fronts, but this award exists to recognize raw mechanical genius. It honors solutions whose invention lies in the mastery of mechanism itself, rather than in what becomes possible through other enabling materials science. It is not an easy case to make in 2025/26, when classical mechanical problem-solving seems to be all but exhausted, and innovation increasingly takes the form of bypassing traditional constraints altogether. Yet the Blancpain Grande Double Sonnerie offers proof that classical mechanical watchmaking, pursued without compromise and at sufficient depth, remains capable of genuine surprise. It is the world’s first grande sonnerie capable of performing two distinct four-note quarter-hour melodies, selectable by the wearer, and also the first to sound the complete four-bar melody after the…

The story of Urban Jürgensen does not follow the classic narrative forms of watchmaking legend. It can be traced through the achievements of Danish watchmaker and scientist Urban Jürgensen in the 18th century; the brilliant innovations of Peter Baumberger and Derek Pratt over the past 50 years; and the current resurgence of the maison under the direction of Alex and Andy Rosenfield, alongside contemporary legend Kari Voutilainen. This year, they relaunched the brand on the strength of overwhelming watchmaking prowess — rooted in fundamental horological principles and executed at a level few can emulate. As a clear statement of both the present and what is to come, the impressive UJ-1 sets out to challenge the boundaries of contemporary watchmaking. This wristwatch represents a reinvention of Urban Jürgensen’s legendary Pratt “The…

The case for awarding Best Striking Watch to the Chopard L.U.C Grand Strike rests simply on its completeness. It is acoustically peerless, mechanically exhaustive yet elegant and fundamentally distinct from a conventional grande sonnerie. Every layer is competently executed and resolved in full, from the strike works and strike train, to the coupling, the acoustic system and the all-important safety mechanisms. The Grand Strike inherits several qualities that already set the Full Strike apart, beginning with its acoustic system. The gongs, their heel and the crystal are machined from a single block of sapphire, without bonding agents or interfaces. This continuity allows vibrations to propagate without interruption, eliminating losses normally introduced at junctions. The result is a chime of exceptional clarity, projection and consistency. Equally distinctive is the architecture of…

Universal Genève’s return to watchmaking reached a decisive moment with the revival of “The Nina,” the Tribute to Compax chronograph that has won the 2025 Revolution Award for Best Revival Watch. The category recognizes a historic model of nearlegendary status brought back either as a regular production piece or a limited edition. In this case, the award goes to a watch whose original identity was shaped as much by its design as by the woman who wore it: Nina Rindt, wife of champion driver Jochen Rindt, whose presence at race circuits in the late 1960s helped transform a functional chronograph into a cult object. The new Tribute to Compax aims for fidelity rather than reinterpretation. The 36mm case, pump pushers, twisted lugs and panda dial all echo the watch Nina…

The watch industry on a whole has seen a renewed interest in métiers d’art decoration. As a result, more brands, from entry-level microbrands to leading independents and major maisons, are offering dials adorned with enamel or guilloché. This is good news for enthusiasts, as it means a wider audience can experience these crafts. Yet it is no secret that some creations stand well above the rest. Playing at the very highest level and rising to the numberone spot in Revolution’s annual Best Métiers d’Art category is the Louis Vuitton Escale en Amazonie pocket watch. At Revolution, the criteria for selecting the Best Métiers d’Art watch of the year rest not only on the quality of the artisanal decoration. The decoration must also be in dialogue with the watch’s horological content,…