Uhrphoria 2026: where the watch community comes together On June 6, 2026, the Fahrwerk venue in Groß-Zimmern became a beacon for watch enthusiasts from across the region. Florian Bach (flomp89) and Mario Franyi had invited everyone to the third edition of Uhrphoria – a family-friendly event where brands, microbrands, watchmakers, and the community come together. The result was remarkable: Here,...

Royal Pop confirmed automatic: Sistem51 is inside The teaser video runs for three seconds. Blue, blurred, a plate with a dot pattern. Gold shimmering through. Swatch is showing the movement of the Royal Pop — deliberately brief, deliberately cryptic. But anyone who has seen a Sistem51 from above doesn’t need three seconds. The asymmetric bridge, the rubies, the layout: that’s...

Royal Pop: How Swatch Sent the Watch World Into a Frenzy With Two Words Two words. One Instagram post. And the entire watch world lost its collective mind. On May 5, 2026, Swatch dropped a reel titled “Royal Pop” – and within hours, forums, TikTok, and X erupted with a single burning question: Is the Royal Oak about to go...

Rolex Pepsi Discontinued: What the Secondary Market Is Pricing In Right Now On April 14, 2026, Rolex officially pulled the GMT-Master II “Pepsi” from its lineup at Watches & Wonders Geneva – both the steel reference 126710BLRO and the white gold 126719BLRO. No successor with a red bezel element was announced. That’s a first in the modern ceramic era. And...

The Seven Spheres – Marco Lang Creates Something That Can Only Be Copied Abraham-Louis Breguet had a problem. Pocket watches hang vertically in a waistcoat pocket. Gravity pulls unevenly on the balance and escapement — differently depending on position, always disruptive. His tourbillon cage, patented in 1801, rotated the escapement and balance once per minute around its own axis. This...

Three Watches from Geneva That Stick Day two in Geneva. Plenty of watches, plenty of repetition — and then three pieces that are still on my mind in the evening. Very different watches from very different worlds. All the better. Grand Seiko Spring Drive U.F.A. Ushio 300 Diver Grand Seiko is showing a diver’s watch in Geneva powered by the...

Geneva Watch Week Has Started Watches and Wonders has been running since yesterday. Through Friday. Alongside it, Masters of Horology, a few streets away. Two events, two worlds. Same city, same week. Lake Geneva is a place I really like, and the city has its own character. And of course there is the anticipation of what is coming. Meeting the...

GPHG 2026: The Watch Prize Reinvents Itself – Gender Categories Make Way for a Universal Approach For 25 years, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) has been the watch industry’s most prestigious award – widely regarded as its equivalent of the Oscars. For its 26th edition, the Geneva-based foundation is drawing clear conclusions from a changed market reality and...

There are moments when a brand stops being just a brand — and becomes a manufactory. For Porsche Design Timepieces, that moment arrived on March 19, 2026. On that day, in Grenchen, at the very heart of Swiss watchmaking, the new Porsche Design Timepieces Manufaktur opened its doors. A date worth remembering. An Old Building, A New Era The address...

Some appointments are predictable. Others reorder the field entirely. The selection of Wei Koh as President of the GPHG Jury 2026 belongs to the second category. The founder of Revolution and The Rake — publisher, filmmaker, and one of the most influential voices in global watch culture — takes over from Nick Foulkes, who led the jury since 2021 with...