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Culture Defined on Dials: A Story of India’s Recognition as a Design Brief in Watchmaking
Swiss maisons have been creating around India's colours, crafts and idols, and redefining what a timeless cultural expression can look like. October 23, 2026 - FEATURES - 7 MIN Swiss watchmakers are increasingly creating India-specific watches inspired by the country's deities, crafts, colours and rituals, and the latest releases show just how far this practice has evolved. Since mid-September, Jacob & Co. has introduced a Shiva-inspired tourbillon.
A New Dual Tone Interpretation of Joia de Baume & Mercier
Contrast is a fine art that demands an equally refined eye, and Baume & Mercier practises it with admirable restraint. The new Joia de Baume & Mercier M0A10896 pairs stainless steel with a 4N gold-tone PVD coating, giving the collection's jewellery-inspired sensibility a complementary voice without ever disturbing its quiet harmony. A Jewel Composed in Steel and Gold The lug-free round case measures 28 mm across and 7.2 mm in thickness.
Tissot Brings the NBA Court to a Sandblasted Steel Dial on a 42 mm Chronograph
Tissot has added a new watch to its NBA line, and it is notably quiet. There are no team colours and no oversized logos. The Supersport NBA is grey from dial to strap, finished in matte steel and drawn from technical sportswear, and the culture around basketball rather than from the scoreboard. It suits a partnership of this standing, one in which Tissot serves as the league's Official Timekeeper and has little left to prove through volume. The match has always made sense.
Tissot Refines the Seastar 2000 Professional, Now Smaller, Brighter and Rated to 600 Metres
At 600 metres, the sea bears down with roughly 60 times the pressure found at the surface. Tissot designed its most capable diver for that world and in June, refined it. The Seastar 2000 Professional, introduced in 2021, returns in five new references with brighter colours, a more compact case and a revised clasp. The case diameter has been reduced from 46 mm to 44 mm, and the price drops from $1,275 to $1,050. It remains the brand's most capable underwater timepiece, refined rather than reinvented.
The Pusher Reimagined: Five Swiss Chronographs that Defined 2026 at Watches and Wonders
Heritage calibres and flexing mechanisms share one stage in a year when the chronograph was both restored and reimagined. October 16, 2026 - FEATURES - 6 MIN Few complications reward scrutiny the way the chronograph does. Two pushers, one crown, and a century of settled habit. This year’s Watches and Wonders treated that habit as an open question. Some houses answered by changing how the mechanism behaves, others by restoring how the genre looked when it was young.
From a Solution to a Connoisseur’s Pick, the Birth of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Reverso and Its Voyage to Recognition
A story of the Reverso’s versatility and how the idea was born from a broken watch case in India. October 15, 2026 - FEATURES - 9 MIN The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso travels in a circle, and so does its story. Its question was put forth in India, at a polo match in the winter of 1930, by a British officer holding a watch with a freshly broken glass.
Famous by Accident: How Le Mans Turned the TAG Heuer Monaco into a Collector’s Choice
All about the TAGHeuer Monaco, a square case built for an awkward movement that became an icon of motorsport, cinema and collecting October 15, 2026 - FEATURES - 7 MIN The Heuer Monaco was not designed to become famous. It was a deliberate answer to a technical constraint, sold modestly, then dropped from the catalogue. Its reputation came later, from a film set, a racing driver’s friendship and a choice of watch that three accounts describe in three different ways.
Designed to Endure: Porte Bonheur Elevates Festive Gifting into Modern Heirlooms
This festive season, Porte Bonheur presents eight timepieces woven with emotion, crafted to be worn today and cherished for generations. October 14, 2026 - FEATURES - 5 MIN Festive seasons bring a flood of gifts, but few that endure. Porte Bonheur exists for the exceptions. Where Swiss horological precision meets the gravitas of Indian artisanship, every piece is crafted to be worn with intention, passed down with sentiment and remembered long after the occasion fades.
From Koi Fish to Sapphire, the Richard Mille Blueprint of Anant Ambani’s Collection
A glimpse into Anant Ambani’s sapphire watch collection: transparent cases, tiny production runs and a one-of-one dial tribute to Vantara. October 14, 2026 - CELEB SIGHTINGS - 7 MIN Some collectors merely accumulate. Anant Ambani curates, and the selection bears an unmistakable hand. The early indicators were distinct. At 25, he was photographed wearing an 18-karat yellow gold Richard Mille Koi Fish Tourbillon, valued at nearly Rs 10 crore.
A Partnership of Building Culture: Montblanc Announces Navya Naveli Nanda as Friend of the Brand in India
Montblanc has named Navya Naveli Nanda, entrepreneur, social advocate and podcaster, its Friend of the Brand in India. The Maison has shaped the culture of writing since 1906; Navya has built her work around the idea that what a person says, and how they say it, can change the rooms they enter. Navya belongs to a cohort quietly redrawing the contours of contemporary India, and she has done so by building rather than declaiming.
OMEGA Unites Bond and Spectre in Six New Seamaster Diver 300M Watches
Cinema has long understood that a hero’s strength is measured by the opposition he faces. Since Pierce Brosnan first strapped on a Seamaster in GoldenEye (1995), OMEGA has been inseparable from James Bond, a lineage carried through Daniel Craig’s 15 years in the role. Bond embodies duty, discipline and loyalty, bound to something greater than himself.
Hired for the Job: An Origin Story of Six Timepieces Created to Solve a Problem
Six watches that began as solutions to professional problems, from an aviator's wrist in 1904 to NASA's flight trials October 9, 2026 - FEATURES - 10 MIN A watch is first judged by its appearance. These six were expected to endure, and judged above all by whether they performed, by people with little tolerance for failure: an aviator who could not spare a hand from the controls, a naval diver reading a dial in dark water, a pilot whose cockpit interfered with the movement on his wrist.
Keeping It a Secret: Five Dials that Choose to Tell The Time In Hiding
A watch is meant to announce the time, but secret watches refuse to conform to that convention. Beneath a clasp or a gemstone cover, the dial waits in private and the piece reads as jewellery until a practised finger finds the catch. In an age devoted to display, such discretion feels almost insolent. Here is where the idea began, along with the five secret watches that deserve a collector's attention now.
A Festive Homecoming of Yellow Gold: Breitling Unveils New Expressions for the Festive Season
Breitling's Navitimer and Superocean Heritage arrive in 36 mm, pairing stainless steel with 18k yellow gold for the festive season. October 8, 2026 - NEW LAUNCHES - 7 MIN Breitling has unveiled the Navitimer Automatic 36 and the Superocean Heritage Automatic 36 in a two-tone combination of stainless steel and 18 carat yellow gold, offered ahead for the festive season.
A Glimpse Within: Five Maisons and Their Open Heart Masterpieces
Five houses, five temperaments and one open heart design. GMT India's picks for the watches worth knowing for the same October 7, 2026 - FEATURES - 8 MIN The open heart dial is one of watchmaking's most praised and admired designs. A single aperture, cut where the dial can best afford the loss, gives the balance wheel a stage and gets incorporated into the dial to show enough, but without showing too much.
A Vault of the Exceptional: Jaeger LeCoultre to Arrive in Hong Kong with an Unveiling of the Vintage
After six capsules and 62 pieces, Jaeger-LeCoultre will showcase a new vintage selection of 10 in Hong Kong on October 13. October 6, 2026 - NEWS - 7 MIN On October 13, Hong Kong will stage an exhibition in which Jaeger‑LeCoultre will unveil 10 vintage timepieces, curated from the years 1931 to 2003 and available worldwide from that date.
Seventy-three Diamonds, One Secret: A Story of Blancpain’s Tribute to Marilyn Monroe
This year, on what would have been Marilyn Monroe's hundredth birthday, Blancpain paid tribute to the icon in the most intimate way that could have been seen coming: not with a campaign built around her fame, but with seven watches built around a single timepiece that was once witnessed on her wrist, a vintage Art Deco-style Blancpain diamond cocktail watch.
Tales for Telling Time: The Launch of IST 1947
In India, time has never been a mere glance at the clock. It is marked by festivals and family lunches, by cricket broadcasts and long train journeys, by monsoon afternoons that invite quiet sips of tea on the balcony. Shared memories from such moments — chaotic or emotional — form the backdrop against which IST 1947 was founded by Karan Vaidya. The brand takes its name from 1 September 1947, the day independent India adopted a time of its own.
A New Chapter of Search for Rado: Actor Hrithik Roshan on Craftsmanship and Emotions
Rado's new campaign, The Search, ponders questions of sentiment. It takes a simple emotion — holding onto a feeling or a reminiscent moment — and answers it with craft. The memories at its centre are subtle: a smile, a glance, a shared moment from the past that continues to linger. Behind them is the conviction that some people don’t just deserve a gift, but something made solely for them.
The PRX Evolves with Quartz Chronograph Accuracy
Tissot has kept time from Le Locle in the Swiss mountains since 1853, and its work is tested most closely where seconds decide the outcome. As Official Timekeeper to the NBA, MotoGP™ and Tour de France, it answers to the stopwatch as much as to the wrist. Against that background, a chronograph is a logical arrival in the PRX, the collection whose integrated silhouette, stainless steel construction and sharp proportions have made it one of the brand's most recognisable.
The Chime of Time: A Story of the Minute Repeater Complication in Watchmaking
A minute repeater does not display the hour, and for that very distinction, eight maisons are being appraised this season. September 29, 2026 - FEATURES - 10 MIN Press the slide on the flank of a case and a small mechanism wakes. Two hammers strike two gongs, and the watch chimes the time for you: low notes for the hours, a double tone for the quarters, high notes for the minutes that remain. Nothing on the dial changes.
Same Gaze, Two Temperaments: Louis Erard x Konstantin Chaykin Give the Frog Two New Moods
Louis Erard and Konstantin Chaykin have revisited a creation that commands attention from across the hall: the Unfroggetable. Its wide eyes, diminutive crown and faintly amused expression form a signature so complete that the face was never redrawn. The evolution lies in temperament: two new colourways enrich the regulator while case, calibre and layout remain untouched.
Narrowed to Hour and Minute: The GPHG 2026 ‘Time Only’ Nominees
The six timepieces that are vying to claim the 2026 ‘Time Only’ prize at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève The 'Time Only' category nominees for GPHG 2026, side-by-side. September 28, 2026 - NEWS - 4 MIN “Time Only” is the most exacting room at the GPHG. Introduced in 2024 and won last year by Daniel Roth’s Extra Plat, it admits watches that show only hours and minutes, leaving proportion, finishing and conviction to argue alone. The category sits at the centre of a prize in transition.
A Unison of Dunes and The Dark: A New Arnold & Son’s creation
Arnold & Son has introduces the Perpetual Moon 41.5 Platinum “Horse of the Dunes”, its latest horological creation, limited to eight pieces. This isn’t a mere watch, but a night scene rendered in metal, glass and pigment. It is an engraved timepiece that wasn’t built merely to tell time, nor even to convey a story, but to offer a plot for one’s imagination.
A Timepiece of Deliberate Discretion: Jaeger LeCoultre Calibre 101 Secrets
Even at the closest glance, Jaeger‑LeCoultre’s Calibre 101 Secrets reveals no hint of a dial concealed within. Pink gold links and graduated sapphires encircle the wrist in an unbroken flow, with no clasp, hinge or seam, betraying the mechanism beneath. The bracelet is composed as a double rivière with two parallel rows of stones running its full length, articulated to move naturally with the body instead of resting rigidly against it.
GPHG in Mumbai: An Exhibition of Timelessness and Virtuosity
From September 28 to October 1, Mumbai will host the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) Exhibition 2026 at The St. Regis, giving India's collectors and connoisseurs a rare, unhurried audience with this year's nominated timepieces before their fate is decided in Geneva this November. Known widely as the ‘Oscar of Watchmaking’, the GPHG does not merely reward well made objects.
The Weight of Almost Nothing: Squircle Titanium, a Titan Craftsmanship Story
In 1997, two engineers strode up to the sixth floor of Titan's Bangalore headquarters with a request that bordered on audacity. BG Dwarakanath and Subramanya Bhat asked Managing Director Xerxes Desai to let them build a movement only 1.15 mm thick, roughly the depth of a credit card. The unshaken response to that was a “yes”. The watch that was to be born took almost four years to finally make itself known. It arrived in 2002 at 3.5 mm, slimmer than anything on the market at that time.
Four Faces of Indian Time Telling: A Horological Kindle
Every Indian watch story once began identically: the same grandfather, the same steel case, the same three letters engraved upon the dial. HMT, Hindustan Machine Tools, inaugurated India’s first wristwatch factory in Bangalore in 1961, forged in partnership with Japan’s Citizen. For three decades it reigned, by its own proclamation, as “Timekeeper to the Nation”. Waiting lists stretched across months. An entire generation learnt to read time on its dials, then passed those same watches to the next.
Dials that Cradle the Moon: The Moonphase Complication in Watchmaking
Six maisons interpret the moon, as Rolex joins with an instantaneous annual calendar and meteorite moonphase, each voice distinct yet united under the same sky. The new Rolex Perpetual Padellone September 17, 2026 - FEATURES - 8 MIN For seven decades, Rolex behaved as though the moon belonged to someone else's mythology.
When Gold Meets Glory: Hublot Shines with Hollywood’s Icons at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards
The red carpet has never belonged to just one star, a truth that held firm until September 14, when beneath the lights of Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater, unmistakable glints of Hublot emerged. As Hollywood’s most decorated names gathered for the 2026 Emmy Awards, it was Hublot once again that stood watch on the wrists of the evening’s defining stories, its King Gold and ceramic catching the flash of every camera, as triumph after triumph unfolded.
Robert Pattinson and the Master Control Chronometre Trio: Unseen Mastery
Certain performers make difficulty vanish. One watches, absorbs the character, and later wonders what the achievement demanded. Robert Pattinson has spent two decades perfecting that vanishing act, moving between auteur cinema and studio spectacle, with Dune: Part Three and The Batman: Part II ahead, without settling into a shape the industry could predict.
Seiko Unveils Prospex India Limited Edition, a Timeless Tribute to Resilience and the Spirit of the Tiger
Calmness. An eerie hush precedes the tiger’s reveal, a silence that both photographers and watchmakers instinctively understand. Seiko, the Japanese House founded in 1881 by Kintaro Hattori, has channelled that very serenity into its newest creation: the Prospex India Limited Edition. Launched this month as the third chapter in its nature‑inspired series, the timepiece pays homage to the tiger’s courage, strength, and commanding presence.
Three Reimaginings of Oris: Community, Character, and Craft in Miniature
Autumn arrives at Hölstein with three expressions of Oris’s watchmaking conviction: one honouring a global community, one letting a living metal write its own story, and one distilling a near-century-old icon into its most graceful proportions yet. Each carries the Swiss mechanical integrity that has defined the Maison since 1938. A Community Cast in Steel Born from 62 global chapters, the Oris Social Club Edition II is a tribute in steel, built on the Aquis Date Relief 43.50mm.
The Hymn of Finesse: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Calibre 182 Duometre that speaks for fifteen
Fifteen grande complications, one chiming calibre — Jaeger‑LeCoultre’s Calibre 182 Duometre embodies the summit of high watchmaking. A close up of the Jaeger LeCoultre's Duometre a Grand Sonnerie September 11, 2026 - NEW LAUNCHES - 4 MIN There are watches that tell the hour, and there are watches that perform it. Jaeger‑LeCoultre’s Doumetre belongs unmistakably to the latter.
A New Chapter Opens for Baume & Mercier, with Shreyas Iyer as Protagonist
New Delhi, a city defined by iconic events and rich heritage, witnessed a moment of remarkable elegance recently. Baume & Mercier convened a curated gathering of collectors and connoisseurs to raise a toast to a new fellowship: welcoming Shreyas Iyer, captain of India’s T20I cricket team, as a Friend of the Maison. Renowned for his tactical acumen and steadfast leadership under pressure, Iyer seamlessly embodies the spirit of the brand.
Louis Vuitton on the Tracks Again with the Dolomites Classic Run 2026
Between Venice and Monza, Louis Vuitton measures its Art of Travel in seconds, not miles. The neoclassical Villa Reale di Monza, the starting venue of the classic dolomites run 2026. September 7, 2026 - NEWS - 3 MIN There is a fastidious kind of luxury in doing something slowly and exactly.
At Geneva Watch Days, Zenith Finds Its Pulse Beneath the Chronograph
At the recently concluded Geneva Watch Days 2026, Zenith isolated its defining heartbeat with the Chronomaster Solo Sport, the first three‑hand watch under the Chronomaster name. El Primero was never built around pushers, subdials or the apparatus of measurement; it was constructed around a beat: 36,000 vibrations per hour, a mechanical pulse that has powered the brand’s identity since 1969.
Bhoomija Pandey
Junior Editorial Assistant bhoomija@gmt-india.in Bhoomija has never quite managed to not vacillate Lane to lane. Philosophy, stories, nature, design, reading, they have all pulled her in different directions, but the thread running through everything is simple: she is always looking for the story hiding underneath. A philosophical puzzle, a well designed object, a walk in the woods, a sentence that lands just right, to her, it is all raw material waiting to be shaped into narrative.
Favre Leuba Chief Skeleton Makes GPHG 2026 Shortlist
Favre Leuba’s Chief Skeleton has secured a place on the Challenge category shortlist at Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) 2026, the Maison’s first nomination in its 289‑year history, achieved just two years after its global relaunch. Sixty-two Timepieces, Only Six Positions Attainable Sixty‑two watches entered the Challenge category this year and only six were chosen, making it the most fiercely contested field among the 14 categories at this GPHG edition.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Brings the Reverso to Venice for Homo Faber
Favre Leuba’s Chief Skeleton has secured a place on the Challenge category shortlist at Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) 2026, the Maison’s first nomination in its 289‑year history, achieved just two years after its global relaunch. Sixty-two Timepieces, Only Six Positions Attainable Sixty‑two watches entered the Challenge category this year and only six were chosen, making it the most fiercely contested field among the 14 categories at this GPHG edition.
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