In partnership with Richemont
As Watches and Wonders 2025 opens in Geneva (1-7 April), listed here are headline new watches to look out for from manufacturers of luxurious group Richemont: A. Lange & Söhne, Baume & Mercier, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Montblanc, Panerai, Piaget and Vacheron Constantin.
‘This yr’s releases are characterised by a clear design, a pointy technical nous and a celebration of workmanship, paying tribute to historic codes whereas encapsulating a really fashionable temper,’ says Wallpaper* watches & jewelry editor Hannah Silver.
See the watches beneath, and for these on the honest, once you’ve exhausted the stands, dip into our Geneva information that will help you take pleasure in some downtime within the metropolis.
A. Lange & Söhne
Minute Repeater Perpetual in platinum, by A. Lange & Söhne
(Picture credit score: Images: Valentin Abad. Set design: Chloé Guerbois)
With each new watch developed by A. Lange & Söhne, the main focus is on harmonising know-how and aesthetics, discovering the stability between custom and modernity. ‘In the course of the course of, we query every little thing and take nice care to make sure that each facet of a watch, each design characteristic and each operate, fulfils its supposed goal,’ explains director of product improvement Anthony de Haas. For 2025, optimum readability is a excessive precedence for the model; from case form to arched lugs, distinctive arms and typography, new designs nod again to A. Lange & Söhne’s distinctive geometric and aesthetic codes.
alange-soehne.com
Baume & Mercier
Riviera in metal, by Baume & Mercier
(Picture credit score: Images: Valentin Abad. Set design: Chloé Guerbois)
The game-chic spirit of Baume & Mercier’s Riviera assortment is impressed by the French Riviera itself, the timepieces’ distinctive 12-sided case and bezel referencing the sculptural reduction of the Côte d’Azur panorama. This new iteration of the Riviera Chronograph, the M0A10827, is engineered for the horological aficionado, its Fifties-style, black-and-white dial representing stability, concord, and sweetness.
baume-et-mercier.com
IWC
Ingenieur Automated 42 in ceramic, by IWC Schaffhausen
(Picture credit score: Images: Valentin Abad. Set design: Chloé Guerbois)
For the manufacture of its new Ingenieur, IWC Schaffhausen’s materials selection allowed no compromise. Rendered in powerful zirconium oxide ceramic, Gérald Genta’s design traditional is now up to date for its Watches and Wonders 2025 debut with sleeker indices and a extra lucid dial structure.
iwc.com
Jaeger-LeCoultre
Reverso Tribute Geographic in metal, by Jaeger-LeCoultre
(Picture credit score: Images: Valentin Abad. Set design: Chloé Guerbois)
The Reverso Tribute Geographic, powered by Jaeger-LeCoultre’s newly developed in-house Calibre 834 motion, is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional and quintessential journey time complication. Displaying world time indication on the reverse dial and offered in a metal case, this new timepiece underlines the progressive and catalytic position that the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso has performed within the 9 a long time since its distinctive, swivelling case was invented again in 1931.
jaeger-lecoultre.com
Montblanc
1858 Geosphere 0 Oxygen Mount Vinson in composite materials with captured CO2, by Montblanc
(Picture credit score: Images: Valentin Abad. Set design: Chloé Guerbois)
Paying homage to Reinhold Messner’s record-breaking 1986 ascent of Mount Vinson, Antarctica (which noticed him turn into the primary climber to ascend the seven highest peaks in seven continents with out using supplementary oxygen), the brand new Montblanc 1858 Geosphere 0 Oxygen Mount Vinson Restricted Version is out there in a run of 986 items. A 43.5mm titanium case, impressed by the Mount Vinson panorama, holds a composite center case crafted from quartz fibres, aluminised basalt fibres, calcium carbonates and light-weight blue resin – the colors and patterns a nod to Antarctica ice crystals. Each the northern and southern hemispheres are represented, by means of two three-dimensional globes that flip anti-clockwise, with dots marking the seven peaks of Messner’s problem, in addition to the Mont Blanc summit.
montblanc.com
Panerai
Luminor Marina, water resistance as much as 50 BAR and Tremendous-LumiNova® X2, by Panerai
(Picture credit score: Images: Valentin Abad. Set design: Chloé Guerbois)
The title Luminor originates from a luminous compound created by Panerai, an progressive materials that formed the creation of the primary fashions within the collection within the early Sixties, invented to fulfill the demanding requirements of the Italian Navy. Panerai had lengthy been supplying sturdy and exact devices to the Marina Militare, however it was the Luminor that introduced collectively a set of distinctive options within the Nineteen Nineties. Each ingredient served a goal, balancing kind and performance, maximising reliability, readability and resilience in a means that may come to outline Panerai’s timepieces as ‘device’ watches. These traits had been consolidated right into a design that, with its security lock system together with the sandwich dial and enhanced luminescence, set the Luminor aside and have become synonymous with the maison. Now, for the primary time in Panerai’s core assortment, Luminor Marina units a brand new benchmark with enhanced water resistance as much as 500m.
panerai.com
Piaget
Sixtie in pink gold, by Piaget
(Picture credit score: Images: Valentin Abad. Set design: Chloé Guerbois)
1969 was the yr that Piaget redrew the boundaries between watchmaking and jewelry; within the arms of Jean-Claude Gueit, who led the corporate’s design crew, the wristwatch was remodeled from a easy timepiece into an avant-garde design object. Virtually 60 years later, new fashions from Piaget’s ateliers mix the maison’s heritage with the current; the marque’s distinctive trapezoidal form showcases a swish stability between geometry and delicacy, refinement and attract.
piaget.com
Vacheron Constantin
Traditionnelle Perpetual Calendar Retrograde Date Openface in platinum, by Vacheron Constantin
(Picture credit score: Images: Valentin Abad. Set design: Chloé Guerbois)
Problems proceed to push the boundaries of beforehand accepted limits, amply demonstrated by Vacheron Constantin’s fantastically rendered and technically spectacular Traditionnelle Perpetual Calendar. There’s a moon section with a starry sky in ‘950 platinum’ (with 95 per cent platinum within the alloy) and two three-dimensional moons. The tachymeter scale painted on the dial makes it doable to find out a median velocity because of the central hand of the chronograph. The perpetual calendar requires no adjustment till the yr 2100.
vacheron-constantin.com
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