This week's watch releases include an octagonal Casio and a skeletonised Renaud Tixier, alongside new offerings from Armin Strom.
A. Lange & Söhne is bringing back a full-platinum bracelet on a limited version of the Datograph Perpetual, adding a new variant to its collectible watch offerings.
Christopher Ward unveiled the C1 Loco Classic on October 15, pairing a round 41mm 904L steel case with the hand-wound CW-003 movement, a dial-side free-sprung balance and 144-hour power reserve. Available with gold, light-blue or black dials, the 14.1mm-thick watch is water-resistant to 30 metres and a finalist in the GPHG 2026 Petite Aiguille category.
English microbrand Clemence has launched the Photic MKII Swiss Edition, a new limited-edition watch marking the brand’s first move into Swiss watchmaking.
Seiko celebrates 145 years since its founding with three limited-edition watch collections. The anniversary releases draw on the brand’s historical design codes while reflecting its continuing emphasis on innovation.
Oris has introduced the Kelp Forest Limited Edition, a new limited-edition watch.
Certina adds two versions of the DS Action Diver 38mm Black with fresh coloured accents. The additions follow a 2025 update that brought enhanced shock resistance and new material combinations to the dive-watch collection, which offers several sizes, materials and colours.
Favre Leuba’s second edition of the Chief Tourbillon features a blue hand-guilloché dial with a barleycorn pattern. The watch pairs traditional decorative craftsmanship with a contemporary tourbillon design.
Hamilton has debuted the American Classic Cushion collection, powered by its new H-47 hand-wound calibre. The movement enables the brand to offer the collection in classically sized proportions.
Hanhart has partnered with Miami-based car and watch enthusiast hub 0260 and streetwear retailer BAIT on the 417 ES × 0260 & BAIT. The collaboration connects the brand, known for pilots’ chronographs, with 0260 founder Lex Borrero and BAIT leader Eric Peng Cheng.
Frederique Constant expands its Classics collection with new versions of the Heart Beat Moonphase Date. The model, first launched in 2014, combines a moon phase display and pointer date with the brand’s signature Heart Beat aperture.
Urwerk’s titanium UR-300 Time Quantum replaces conventional wandering-hour arms with two independent bars forming a T-frame and carrying four three-sided prisms. Each hour, the bars exchange positions, their supporting carousel advances 72 degrees, and the prisms rotate simultaneously. The active hour numeral tracks minutes along a 108-degree arc at six o’clock.
Why it matters: This represents a substantive reworking of the wandering-hours architecture that has defined Urwerk since 1997, rather than simply a new case or dial treatment.
Atelier Mephalie is returning with three in-house minute repeaters from Shanghai. The comeback revives a dormant watchmaking brand with roots in the late 19th century, choosing complicated chiming watches for its return.
Rado returned as a sponsor of Design House in Mexico City for a fourth consecutive year, displaying twelve watches and presenting five releases from the semester. Architecture studio Mateos Herrera created the installation using eight steel-and-marble displays and lighting inspired by Rado’s anchor emblem. The exhibition remains open through November 1.
Mido’s Multifort TV Big Date Chronometer introduces COSC certification to the series. Its 40 × 39.2mm stainless-steel case houses the automatic Calibre 80 COSC, with a Nivachron hairspring and up to 80 hours of power reserve. Blue and black-grey versions offer 100m water resistance and steel bracelets, priced at CHF 1,350 or EUR 1,550.
Former Longines designer Francis Jacquerye has launched Swedish watch brand Svea Atelier with its first dress watch, the Monolith. The design-led brand’s debut model features angular styling and a quartz movement, with prices starting at €680.
Yema has unveiled the Spacegraf Heure Sidérale Tourbillon Volant as its Millésime 2026 limited edition. The universe-inspired watch pays tribute to the birthplace of French watchmaking and carries the Millésime designation, which Yema uses to represent its highest-level offerings.
Breitling has launched the Navitimer B09 Chronograph 41 and Navitimer B02 Chronograph 41 Cosmonaute as non-limited additions to its core collection. The pair brings manually wound options to the regular Navitimer lineup, with an emphasis on appealing to watch enthusiasts.
Doxa has unveiled the SUB 200T Afterglow, featuring a pink sunray dial inspired by the brief glow after sunset in Naples. The new shade expands the SUB collection’s colour palette, which already includes orange, turquoise, yellow and deep blue.
Ressence’s Type 10 DN (Dark Night) is its first oil-filled watch powered by the RW-01 manufacture calibre, unveiled earlier this year. A dark-blue titanium case pairs with a matching rubber strap. The rotating ROCS display operates in oil, magnetically coupled to the mechanical movement housed in a separate, air-filled compartment.
Andorra-based Atelier de Chronométrie has unveiled the ADC16, its first dual-register chronograph. The unique commission features a gilt dial and a heavily upgraded historical Valjoux 23 calibre, following the independent watchmaker’s earlier three-register split-seconds chronographs.
Louis Erard has introduced the Dia De Los Muertos Black, a skull-themed watch tied to the Day of the Dead. The release joins the seasonal tradition of watches drawing on memento mori imagery as a reminder of mortality.
Tissot has partnered with Damian Lillard on a PRX Skeleton Special Edition. The watch features a 44mm case and a hand-wound movement, and comes with a conversion kit that allows it to serve as a pocket watch.
Milan-based Unimatic’s Langhe collection brings autumn colors inspired by truffle hunting to popular Swiss-made models. The release continues the brand’s approach of developing variations around a small group of core watch designs.
NOMOS Glashütte has launched the Metro Date Power Reserve Ice Blue with a new in-house movement. The release extends the German watchmaker’s Metro collection, introduced in 2014, which combines minimalist contemporary design with mechanical sophistication.
RZE has announced the UTD-8080-ST watch alongside an RZE-8080 module upgrade program for existing UTD-8000 owners. The UTD-8000 series debuted last year, combining surface-hardened titanium cases with a custom digital module, and has since expanded with several colorways.
Panerai has introduced a smaller, 42mm Luminor aimed at broadening the collection’s appeal. The reduced case size is intended to attract a wider audience.
Jaeger-LeCoultre brings back the Master Ultra Thin Moon in a 36mm pink gold case. The returning model comes from the Vallée de Joux watchmaker, known for supplying high-end movements to other leading watch houses.
Maurice Lacroix has refined the Aikon Automatic Chronograph for the collection’s tenth anniversary. Launched in 2016 with quartz movements, the integrated-design, sporty Aikon range added automatic models in 2018 and has become a core part of the brand’s catalogue.
Marvin’s Flying Dutchman GMT revives the brand’s aviation heritage, connecting the watch to the historical relationship between mechanical timekeeping and pilots’ navigation needs.