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HYT's latest keeps the octagonal T1 case, but opens up the dial.
Available only from autumn until mid-spring, these seasonal timepieces bottle greatness.
The T1 Series is heralded to become the saviour of HYT, making the brand more approachable, but still keeping the ethos alive.
Restructuring HYT was never going to be an easy task,. New CEO Vincent Perriard reckons he's got the keys to the retrograde fluidic gates.
As we predicted last week, the amount of releases these past seven days was massive. Geneva Watch Days is one of the key events in…
The HYT Conical Tourbillon Infinity Sapphires is a limited edition of 8 pieces Its tourbillon calibre, with a spiral balance inclined at 30 degrees, was…
The new HYT Conical Tourbillon culminates HYT’s decade of technological advancement. Their exclusive mechanical fluidic technology blends seamlessly alongside traditional techniques such as glassblowing. The…
The HYT brand is experiencing an encouraging renaissance. It came back with a big bang with the help of Kairos Technology and a certain Davide…
While other manufactures rely on hands or discs to convey information, HYT developed a means of utilising fluid to show the time – carving out…
Innovation is always risky, but HYT paid the ultimate price in 2021 when they were forced into bankruptcy less than 10 years after announcing their…
Watchmaking is a traditional art form, and its heritage often generates a strong connection between client and manufacturer. But we’re in the 21st century now,…
On Thursday night HYT Watches announced their return to Australia in fine style, with the largest assembly of HYT watches in one place in the country…
Please excuse us if we take a very brief break from our SIHH programming (you can be sure we’ll be back next week with a…
The coming together of the high-end and affordable segments of the market will be seen first-hand at this year's Milano Watch Week.
Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025 is set to be the biggest edition yet with 65 brands. Here's everything you need to know.
Ballet, jewels, classical music and incredibly impressive mechanical complication come together in this sumptuous statement piece.
If MeisterSinger’s usual single-hand watches are about de-emphasising exactitude, the new Panthero does something a little more nuanced.
Following two years of development, American brand Arion finally makes its debut, revealing its inaugural model, a titanium dress watch.
Bulgari offers a rose gold secret watch utilising ancient coinage and a yellow-gold, gemstone-set cuff watch to inaugurate its 2026.
CIGA's latest mechanical complication, a modern take on a wandering hours watch, is a fitting follow-up to its GPHG-winning Blue Planet.
As we head into another big summer of Australian sport, Rado launches a new campaign with two big names in tennis and cricket.
It's not often that Patek surprisingly announces a new model outside its ‘regular’ launch moments, like they did this week.
The Laureato distinguishes itself from other 70s integrated bracelet luxury sports watches due to Girard-Perregaux's focus on movements.
Our UK Editor visited the "Top of Europe", where the stone for the new RockWatch was cut from, to get immersed in this new release.
Continuing the 150th anniversary celebrations, AP has brought us a host of crown-controlled QPs and rich stone dial tourbs.
Rolex's Oysterflex is one of the most comfortable rubber straps in the business... But pairing it with a Glidelock clasp changed the game.
A purple CVD case, skeletonised dial and UV-reactive strap make this 30-piece limited edition chrono pretty hard to miss.
Two of the oldest watchmakers in the world, Vacheron Constantin and Breguet, celebrate this milestone year in style, headlining this week.
It's been around for 10 years and 2025 is set to be its biggest edition to date, with over 90 brands taking part.
Watches and Wonders is just around the corner, and it looks like independent brands have had a lot to say the past seven days.
Armin Strom's latest Dual Time GMT Resonance is a unique take on the GMT watch formula, now in a stainless steel case.
The decision has been made, the dollars have been saved. Time to buy a new watch. Only issue is, where to do it in Melbourne?
These will get your heart racing in no time.
Being able to change out the strap can make your watch feel brand new, but not every brand offers these innovative quick change systems.
Lederer has taken observatory certification to another level by checking its new watch with three separate observatories in two countries.
Milano Watch Week, Dubai Watch Week, Windup NY, and WatchTime NY fairs will all kick off next month.
Big watch fairs can tell us a lot about the state of the industry, and there was plenty going unsaid at Geneva Watch Days 2024.
The new thinnest watch in the world, a strong return for Daniel Roth, chiming Bulgaris, a trio of Breitling perpetual calendars and more!
The fifth instalment of the independent-focused watch fair is set to be its biggest edition yet. Here's what you can expect.
Unveiled at Watches & Wonders Shanghai 2024, its innovative tide indicator and moonphase can show high, low, spring and neap tides.
The first-ever Milano Watch Week is set to take place in October, celebrating the best independent watchmaking has to offer.
Dubbed the "mysterious signature hours", DWISS presents another new, but affordable way to tell time.
Sly has enlisted Sotheby's to auction off a significant part of his collection, including the first-ever to market Patek Grandmaster Chime.
Watches and Wonders is now truly upon us and, as the big box brands have to stop releases as per fair rules, independent brands are…
Thomas Fleming assembles the horological Avengers for an ultra-high end debut of the Series 1
Not bothered by large size and potential illegibility? Tom's got the list for you.
On a tight budget, or don't feel like picking up a Weishi? With a few pieces of audio equipment, you won't need to!
Deep house and tourbillons mark Frederique Constant's DWW releases.
During our visit to Geneva Watch Days 2023, we got to experience some of the craziest watches of the year. Carbon cases, constant force escapements,…
The theme of many of this week's releases is a return to more vintage proportions... But those with more substantial wrists need not worry, either.
Even if you say you are not going to buy one of them, you were probably eagerly waiting for the new Swatch x Blancpain collaboration.…
Navigation is definitely taken for granted these days. Not that I don’t personally rely on Google Maps to take me pretty much everywhere, but the…
Welcome to this new weekly column! Each week, we will recap some of the best watch releases of the previous seven days. Whether novelties they’re…
When it was announced in January that billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman had taken a minority stake in Bremont, people wondered what it would mean…
The Cyrus Klepcys Vertical Tourbillon Sapphire features a golden bridge inspired by a design of Leonardo Da Vinci The vertical tourbillon placement is inspired by traditional pocket…
Editor’s note: Zach has long carried the torch for the #tinywristtribe, advocating on behalf of all watch lovers with smaller wrists. But today the torch…
You’re probably familiar with the concept of “dog years”. This is the idea that dogs age at approximately seven times the rate of humans and…
Writer’s note: This article was completed mere hours after Croatia’s incredible penalty shootout win against Brazil. During that match, the percentage of grey hair on…
This week seems to be the week of awards shows. I was in California last weekend for the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards, while today…
We are wrapping up an exciting week here in Switzerland, with Geneva Watch Days 2022 coming to an end. Thirty brands brought the heat, giving…
Luke here – just popping into Zach’s Wind Down to tell you about a gravity-defying weekend in Paris with Mido. Twenty-seven metres doesn’t sound that high.…
In Ozark, Marty Byrde is wearily accustomed to high-stress scenarios. Physical danger is an occupational hazard when you’re a money launderer for a Mexican cartel.…
Hublot seldom disappoints when it comes to a summer barrage of colours and materials, and the new MP-09 collection is here to prove the point.…
Editor’s note: Last year, Bruno Molino was sitting in his Melbourne home when his Apple Watch started frantically beeping. Here, the 55-year-old describes exactly what…
The project is called Deep Time. Right now, 15 people are sealed in a pitch-black cave in the south of France. They have zero access…
Every year, the Time+Tide team publishes NOW, our annual print extravaganza. As it says on the cover, essentially it’s a watch buying guide that rounds…
When you’re a 25-year-old footballer earning upwards of £100,000 a week, a standard luxury watch can feel a little pedestrian. As Esquire UK’s Finlay Renwick…
Nothing over $1 million can really be called a bargain. Particularly when it’s a mere wristwatch from the Swinging Sixties. Yet we all know the…
The 30-year wait is over. Liverpool are Premier League champions, having clinched the title with a record seven games of the season to spare. Frankly,…
Watches are no longer the robust tools we use in everyday life. We tell the time with our phones, and watches instead have taken on…
For as long as time has been indicated with hands on a dial, horologists have been hunting for different ways to communicate time. Contemporarily, this…
Half a decade ago, Time+Tide published a story, citing that by 2020 there would be more female millionaires in Britain than male, leaving it to the…
One of the most beautiful elements of the mechanical watch is it doesn’t rely on disposable units of lithium to function. If you keep moving,…
Sandra takes a look at the incredible (and incredibly complex) Cartier Révélation d’une Panthère.
I’m flying off to Geneva tomorrow, for the watchstravaganza that is SIHH. And on my wrist, as I step onto the plane, will be Montblanc’s…
Editor’s note: Hublot’s heart beats to the rhythm of the in-house Unico movement. So it makes sense that their centrepiece collection, the Big Bang — with…
Self-described ‘WIS Globetrotter’, @Horonation likes to keep his identity secret — preferring the moniker ‘Mr X’. To say he’s serious about his watches would just about be the…
The dust of Baselworld 2018 has finally settled, and while there was a ton of quick news to hammer through, there are certain topics that…
Is the IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days Edition “150 Years” might be the best version of the Portugieser yet? We think so.
While the sun kept shining (of course, it’s Dubai), it rained – rained watches – for the five days of Dubai Watch Week. Organised by…
For those who haven’t checked their (perpetual) calendars lately — wake up! It’s November, yes — there’s only a few weeks left of the year, and…
In the flurry of pre-holiday/SIHH business, we managed to find time for a lightning trip to Sydney, to catch up with HYT CEO Gregory Dourde…
One of the most talked-about things at SIHH 2016 wasn’t Cartier’s new collection, or the real Spitfire in the IWC booth (though both these things…
The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) is the first big watch event of the year, and has an important role in setting the…