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42 articles · October 2026
Audemars Piguet
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph 26331ST: Genta's Octagon, With Pushers
The 41mm steel Royal Oak Chronograph, 2017 to 2022.
4 min read · WindItUp Editorial
- Review
Cartier
Santos de Cartier Medium WSSA0061: The Green Dial Santos
The everyday Cartier, with a graduated green dial.
4 min · 14 Oct
- Review
Cartier
Panthère de Cartier WSPN0015: The Bracelet Is the Watch
The 1983 icon, back since 2017, in medium steel.
4 min · 14 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Oyster Perpetual 31 277200: The Turquoise Dial Everyone Wants
The simplest Rolex, with the dial that made it famous.
4 min · 14 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Daytona 116500LN: The One That Put Ceramic on the Steel Daytona
The first steel Daytona with a Cerachrom bezel, 2016 to 2023.
4 min · 14 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Datejust 41 126334: Wimbledon or Black?
White Rolesor, 41mm, Jubilee. Two dials, two very different watches.
4 min · 14 Oct
- Story
F.P. Journe
F.P. Journe: From Clock Restorer to Watchmaker
From his uncle's antique clock workshop in Paris to his own name on the dial in Geneva.
5 min · 14 Oct
- Story
Rolex
The Paul Newman Daytona: How a Dial Nobody Wanted Became a Legend
A slow seller in the 1960s, a film star's wrist in the 1970s, a record at auction in 2017.
5 min · 14 Oct
- Story
Cartier
Cartier Santos-Dumont: The Aviator, the Jeweller and the Watch on the Wrist
A square watch made in 1904 for a Brazilian aviator who needed both hands to fly.
5 min · 14 Oct
- Story
Industry
Krayon: The Watch That Knows When the Sun Will Set
An engineer's complication that calculates sunrise and sunset anywhere on Earth.
5 min · 14 Oct
- Story
Industry
The Rise of Rexhep Rexhepi: From Patek Apprentice to Akrivia
A trainee at Patek Philippe at 14, his own brand at 25 and a GPHG prize at 31.
5 min · 14 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Daytona 116520: Where the Modern Daytona Really Begins
The first in-house Daytona, the last with a steel bezel — and the reference where the modern Daytona really begins.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex GMT-Master II "Sprite" 126720VTNR: The Rolex for the Other Wrist
Crown on the left, date at 9 and a green and black bezel.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex GMT-Master II 126713GRNR: Grey, Black and Gold
A grey and black bezel, yellow Rolesor and the Jubilee bracelet.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Patek Philippe
Patek Philippe Cubitus 5821/1A: Is Square the New Round?
The square steel sports watch that launched Patek's newest collection.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Patek Philippe
Patek Philippe 5110P World Time: The Blue One Everyone Wants
Patek's first automatic world timer, in platinum with a blue guilloché dial.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Day-Date 40 228238 Onyx: Black Stone, Yellow Gold
Natural onyx, diamond markers and 18k yellow gold.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Yacht-Master 40 116655: The Watch That Introduced Oysterflex
The 2015 Everose Yacht-Master that launched Oysterflex.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Richard Mille
Richard Mille RM 67-02 Wayde van Niekerk: 32 Grams of Sprint Watch
An automatic built to be worn on the track, at about 32 grams.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Datejust 36 116234: The Watch Most People Picture When You Say "Rolex"
36mm, white gold fluted bezel, Jubilee bracelet: the classic Datejust.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
F.P. Journe
F.P. Journe Tourbillon Souverain: Three Complications, One Obsession
A tourbillon, a remontoir and dead-beat seconds, all chasing accuracy.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex GMT-Master II "Root Beer" 126711CHNR: Two-Tone, Done Right
Oystersteel, Everose gold and a black and brown bezel.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Tudor
Tudor Black Bay Ceramic 79210CNU: Tudor's First Master Chronometer
Matt-black ceramic and the first METAS-certified Tudor.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Daytona Le Mans 126529LN: The Daytona That Lasted Ten Months
A 24-hour Daytona made for one race, then gone in under a year.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Daytona Rainbow 126598RBOW: Rolex Turns the Volume All the Way Up
Rolex's most extravagant Daytona, on the latest movement.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
F.P. Journe
F.P. Journe Octa UTC Boutique Edition: Journe's Travel Watch, in Black
Journe's travel watch, in black and rose gold, sold only through the brand's boutiques.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
Patek Philippe
Patek Philippe 5140R: The Perpetual Calendar That Doesn't Need to Shout
The slim rose gold perpetual calendar that followed the 3940.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Review
F.P. Journe
F.P. Journe Octa Calendrier Ruthenium: Brass, Platinum and 99 Pieces
One of 99, in platinum, with one of Journe's last brass movements.
4 min · 13 Oct
- Deep Dive
Rolex
Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 126500LN "Panda" — Review, History & Market Guide
The current-generation steel Daytona Panda — every detail, every fact, every reason it commands the queue it does.
14 min · 8 May
- Deep Dive
Rolex
Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 6263 — Gold Case, Paul Newman Exotic Dial
The final generation of the hand-wound Daytona. In gold, with the exotic dial, fewer than 200 are believed to exist.
16 min · 28 Apr
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Land-Dweller 36 127234: Rolex's First New Family in Years
The most significant new Rolex line in two decades. All references, the new Dynapulse escapement, and what it means.
4 min · 24 Apr
- Deep Dive
Rolex
The Rolex Submariner 126610LN: Why the Date and the No-Date Are Two Different Watches
One ref number apart on Rolex's website. A philosophical chasm between them on the wrist.
11 min · 22 Apr
- Deep Dive
Rolex
Rolex Milgauss 116400 — Review, History & Buyer's Guide
The anti-magnetic Rolex built for CERN scientists, discontinued in 2023, now a quiet collector's piece.
11 min · 20 Apr
- Deep DivePatek Philippe
Patek Philippe
How Thierry Stern Killed the Most Wanted Watch in the World
The 5711 wasn't discontinued. It was retired — like a footballer who walked off the pitch at 30.
12 min · 18 Apr
- Deep Dive
Rolex
Rolex Submariner Date 126610LN — Review, History & Market Guide
The current 41mm Submariner Date — the most-recommended single Rolex in the trade.
13 min · 16 Apr
- Deep DiveCartier
Cartier
The Cartier Crash: Story Behind the Watch That Refuses To Make Sense
Born in Cartier London in 1967, distorted on purpose, never logical.
10 min · 14 Apr
- Review
Rolex
Rolex Submariner 126610LV: The Green Sub, Grown Up
Two generations of the green Submariner — and why the trade flipped its opinion almost overnight.
4 min · 12 Apr
- Review
Rolex
Rolex GMT-Master II "Pepsi" 126710BLRO: The Steel Pepsi Returns
The most photographed GMT-Master in the world. Red and blue ceramic bezel, calibre 3285, history all the way back to Pan Am.
4 min · 8 Apr
- Deep DivePatek Philippe
Patek Philippe
Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 — Complete Guide
Every reference, every dial, every variant of the most discussed steel sports watch ever made.
16 min · 4 Apr
- Deep DivePatek Philippe
Patek Philippe
Patek Philippe Nautilus 5712 — Complete Guide: Moonphase, All References & Market
The Nautilus's most-complicated reference in the steel line. Power reserve, sub-second, moonphase, pointer date, micro-rotor.
13 min · 30 Mar
- Review
Patek Philippe
Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167A: The Patek You Can Actually Wear Every Day
Patek's casually subversive sports watch — every dial, every metal, every variant of the modern Aquanaut.
4 min · 26 Mar
- Deep DivePatek Philippe
Patek Philippe
Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968 / 5980 — Complete Guide
Patek's flyback chronograph in the Aquanaut/Nautilus case — the most under-rated complication in the modern catalogue.
13 min · 22 Mar