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From afar, the watch industry may seem unhurried. But every passing day brings about new timepieces from brands big, small, new and old.
Below, find a dozen new releases from the likes of affordable brands like Echo/Neutra and AVI-8, luxury legends such as Blancpain and Panerai, and enthusiast favorites like Atelier Wen and Unimatic. Together, they show an industry that never stops ticking — and, centuries later, can still find the time to surprise you.
Best New Gear: This article is part of an ongoing series collecting the most important new watches, gadgets, pocket knives and more. Catch up on other releases.
Blancpain
Blancpain Double Grande Sonnerie
The most complicated watch in Blancpain’s 290-year-history features a retrograde perpetual calendar, a flying tourbillon, and the world’s first double grande sonnerie with two different melodies to choose from.
Panerai looks to its history as a supplier of underwater instruments to the Italian Navy for this vintage-themed take on its Luminor Marina featuring a unique military-inspired dial layout and a retro domed crystal.
One of two winter-themed Big Bang Unico chronographs unveiled by Hublot in 2025, this version features an ice-like transparent sapphire case, a light blue skeletonized dial and a snowflake-shaped rotor.
One of two winter-themed Big Bang Unico chronographs unveiled by Hublot in 2025, this version features a titanium case with a snow-white ceramic bezel, an ice blue skeletonized dial and a snowflake-shaped rotor.
Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante Arctic Rose
This version of Parmigiani’s flagship steel sports watch boasts the brand’s most unique complication: a minute rattrapante function that allows one of the two stacked minute hands to be set at a specific point in the future and then recalled when no longer needed. In this case, the complication is paired with a gorgeous light pink dial.
Unimatic created a blacked-out version of the Modello Tre chronograph for the Los Angeles boutique and gallery Maxfield. The steel case and bracelet have a matte black DLC coating, matching the matte black dial, snailed black sub-dials and black wire-frame hands. It runs on a Sellita caliber SW510 BH b automatic movement with a 4Hz beat rate and a 62-hour power reserve. This is a limited edition of 30 pieces available exclusively from Maxfield.
Echo/Neutra physically and visually downsized its ultra-suave Rivanera dress watch, aptly naming it the Piccolo. The angular titanium case, with parallel tiered sides and a bead-blasted finish, is nearly identical to the original Rivanera, but vertically downsized from 40mm to 33mm. The clean dial, marked only with “Rivanera” at 12 o’clock, is available with a “Grain de Riz” guilloché texture in black or white, or a Musou Black acrylic, which absorbs 99.4% of light. It runs on a Sellita caliber SW1000 automatic movement with a 46-hour power reserve.
Bremont’s bold jumping hour design receives a mesmerizing upgrade with a glimmering deep blue Aventurine dial plate and a “frosted” finish on the 40mm cushion-shaped steel case, creating a sparkling surface. It is powered by Bremont’s caliber BC634 automatic jumping hour movement, developed in partnership with Sellita, which beats at 4Hz and has a 56-hour power reserve. The limited edition of 50 pieces comes on a blue leather strap with a folding clasp.
AVI-8 worked with Worn & Wound’s design wing to create this highly legible and exceptionally affordable go-anywhere, do-anything watch. It is powered by a Miyota caliber 9015 automatic movement and has allied block Super-LumiNova inidices. The 38mm steel case has a hard-coat surface and elongated lugs. It comes on a black rubber two-piece strap and is accompanied by a black nylon NATO strap.
Grøne, the more accessible sister brand to the revered independent luxury watchmaker Grönefeld, offers its most ambitious watch to date with this manually wound chronograph. Coming closer to Grönefeld’s far more expensive offerings than ever, the Moment Meter boasts a high level of detailing on its multi-layered dial with a sunburst and circular-grained salmon center, raised subdials with diamond-polished edges and grained rhodium surfaces, and a baby blue pulsometer scale. A La Joux-Perret column-wheel chronograph offers excellent performance while keeping the cost manageable, and the stainless steel case measures a highly wearable 39mm across. The watch retails for €3,490 (~$4,042) and goes on sale on December 3. It’s limited to 300 pieces.
Frederique Constant x Bamford Highlife Chronograph Automatic
Frederique Constant’s underrated sports chrono, the Highlife Chronograph Automatic, gets an uber-cool makeover from Bamford Watch Department. The case is in crystal titanium that’s been given a black DLC treatment for a hyper-modern urban look, while the dial is in matte black with BWD’s signature Aqua Blue highlights and a retro-futuristic LCD-like font. A smoked sapphire display caseback shows off the La Joux-Perret-based automatic movement, and the watch includes three straps: one black rubber, one aqua blue rubber and one black nubuck calfskin. The watch is limited to 100 pieces and is priced at CHF 4,495 (~$5,570).
Atelier Wen links up with Revolution for this Middle Eastern take on the brand’s impressive Ancestra dress watch in honor of Dubai Watch Week. The updated model features an artisan-crafted dial made with translucent fumé grand feu enamel in a desert-inspired brown shade that took months to perfect, while the usual Chinese or Arabic applied indices have been swapped out for Eastern Arabics. The watch is available to purchase only until November 27, with each one being handmade to order.