Doxa’s dive-watch range spans retro skin divers and deep-sea tool watches, with colourful dials a recurring theme across a selection of six models.
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10 stories selected from the day’s reporting. Biver’s first steel watch joins new releases from MB&F and Hublot.
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Serica has a collaboration with Peugeot, while Hublot’s next chapter and Grand Seiko’s design philosophy are also among this week’s watch-industry developments.
Nivada Grenchen’s Chronoking Black Amber brings a warmer aesthetic to the Chronoking collection, continuing the brand’s emphasis on designs that evoke obscure vintage watches.
The Pequignet Royale Paris Moon Phase is a 39.5mm watch from the French brand. Pequignet also developed a French-made movement independently of Yema, with both brands introducing their movements around the same time.
New Releases
New watch releases this week include Biver’s first steel watch, the MB&F LM1 EVO and the Hublot Classic Fusion Tributo. Jaeger-LeCoultre and Svea Atelier also feature among the brands with new releases.
Ressence has unveiled the Type 10 DN, its first watch to combine the brand’s proprietary base calibre with its oil-filled display module. The debut edition is limited to 100 pieces and features an organically shaped titanium case with a dark blue DLC coating.
Chopard’s thirteenth L.U.C Full Strike Día de los Muertos edition pairs straw and eggshell marquetry in a skull dial requiring 160 hours of work by one artisan. The watch features a hand-engraved 42.5 mm rose-gold case and the L.U.C 08.01-L minute-repeater calibre with monobloc sapphire gongs.
The Doxa SUB 200T Afterglow is a collaboration with Exquisite Timepieces, pairing the SUB 200T model with a Naples-night theme.
Formex has added the Essence Ceramica Dark Matter RedShift to its Essence Ceramica range. The new version combines a black meteorite dial and red accents with matte ceramic, and is powered by a COSC-certified movement.
The new Junghans Meister Chronoscope 27/7620.02 combines a matte silvered dial with a gold-colored PVD coating on its case rather than solid gold. The design recalls the beginnings of the modern Meister model range in 2011.