Watches & Wonders 2024 Coverage

Welcome to our Watches and Wonders 2024 coverage. Throughout the next few days, we'll be providing frequent updates to one of the biggest watch events of the year right here. Our entire content team is on the ground in Geneva, covering as many exhibits as they can. Please bookmark this page so you won't miss out on the latest releases and news from this year's event. 

ROLEX

VIDEO: New Rolex Releases For 2024 (GMT-Master II, Day-Date, & More)

In this video, we take a quick look at the new releases from Rolex at Watches and Wonders 2024. We look at the new GMT Master II, Deepsea, Day-Date, and 1908 to name a few. Which new release do you like the most?

Close-Up: New Rolex Watches at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2024

We've collected all the major new releases from Rolex, with a bit of background on each model, details on the newest pieces, and our own on-site photography. From the new grey-and-black GMT-Master II to a 18K Sky-Dweller to a Deepsea in full 18k yellow gold. Read more here...

Rolex GMT-Master II Debuts in Two New Steel Variations

Two new GMT-Master II models make their debut in Oystersteel cases, both featuring the same gray-and-black high-tech ceramic bezel introduced on last year’s version. The graduation of the bezel is made even more visible thanks to the use of a PVD treatment on the molded, recessed numbers used for the 24-hour scale.One model is mounted on Rolex’s classic three-link Oyster bracelet, the other on the five-link Jubilee bracelet, both in Oystersteel. Read more here...

Rolex Sky-Dweller Debuts in Gold on Jubilee Bracelet

Rolex has launched the Sky-Dweller in two new iterations for 2024, both in 42mm Oyster cases made of 18k gold and both mounted on Jubilee bracelets — a first for the Sky-Dweller model. One of the new Sky-Dwellers combines a case made of Rolex's own Everose gold alloy with a compelling slate-colored dial. the other marries an intense white dial to a case made of yellow gold. Read more here...

Rolex Dresses Up Perpetual 1908 in Platinum and Ice Blue

Rolex has unveiled a new Perpetual 1908 model in a platinum case and an elegantly executed ice-blue dial with a guilloché rice-grain motif. The delicate, eye-catching geometrical pattern blossoms in the manner of a rosette on the surface of the dial, which also employs another type of hand-applied guilloché, a crimped, filet sauté pattern, for the minute track. Read more here... 

TUDOR

Hands On: New Tudor Watches from Watches & Wonders Geneva 2024

The world’s biggest event devoted to luxury timepieces, Watches & Wonders Geneva, is in full swing this week, showcasing new watches from more than 50 brands, from industry titans to trend-setting boutique brands and independents. Among the most anticipated new releases, as always, are those from Rolex-owned sport-luxury specialist Tudor. Below we offer a hands-on preview of the year’s most intriguing new Tudor watches of 2024. Read more here...

VIDEO: Hands-On With The New Tudor Watches 2024 (Black Bay 58 GMT, Black Bay Monochrome & More)

In this video, we take a quick look at the new releases from Tudor at Watches and Wonders 2024. We look at the new Black Bay 59 GMT, Black Bay Monochrome, and Gold Black Bay to name a few. Which new release do you like the most?

Tudor Black Bay 58 GMT Features New METAS Caliber

For the first time, a GMT model joins the versatile, mega-popular subfamily of the Black Bay, the Black Bay 58, which derives its name from the year Tudor released the historic Oyster Prince Submariner Ref. 7924, the purest forerunner of the modern Black Bay, and which has found favor among enthusiasts for its understated 39mm case diameter. The steel case of the Black Bay 58 GMT will fit the bill for many wearers with its 12.8mm thickness and 47.8mm lug-to-lug measurement. The movement inside is the automatic Caliber MT5440-U, boasting both a COSC certification as well as a METAS certification as a “Master Chronometer. Read more here...

Tudor Black Bay Monochrome With METAS Caliber

Following on the coattails of last year's Watches and Wonders Tudor Black Bay Burgundy release, the brand unveils a new model leaning into a more monochromatic design language. Read more here...

Grand Seiko

Hands-On With The New Grand Seiko Watches 2024 (7 Watches Presented)

In this video, we sat down with Joe Kirk from Grand Seiko to take a quick look at the new releases from Grand Seiko at Watches and Wonders 2024. We look at the 7 brand new models including the new manually wound White Birch and Kodo ‘Daybreak’. Which new release do you like the most?

Hands On: New Grand Seiko Watches from Watches & Wonders Geneva 2024

For the third year in a row, Japan’s Grand Seiko has joined the cavalcade of Swiss (and a few notable German) luxury watchmakers as an exhibiting maison at Watches & Wonders in Geneva, and as in previous years, the brand has unveiled a plethora of new timepieces that range from sporty to elegant, as well as an entirely new in-house movement. Here is a rundown of Grand Seiko’s 2024 highlights with our own photography. Read more here...

Grand Seiko Evolution 9 "White Birch" Features New Manual-Wind Caliber

In its third year as an exhibitor at the world’s largest watch fair, Grand Seiko has presented another all-new movement, this one in a more understated but no less impressive staging. Here’s what you need to know about the new Evolution 9 Collection dress watches, Refs. SLGW002 and SLGW003, and the in-house Caliber 9SA4. Read more here...

ORIS

Oris Updates the Aquis Date and Aquis Date Upcycle

Last year, in its inaugural appearance at Watches & Wonders Geneva, independent Swiss watchmaker Oris delighted attendees with the launch of the ProPilot X Kermit Limited Edition, with its lime-green dial and unique Muppet date display. This year, taking center stage in Oris’ W&W presentation is a subtle but substantial revamp of the flagship Aquis collection, specifically the core Aquis Date and its megapopular offshoot, the Oris Date Upcycle. Read more here...

NOMOS GLASHÜTTE

Nomos Glashütte Unveils 31 New Colorways of the Tangente 38

Germany’s Nomos Glashütte is making its inaugural appearance as an exhibiting brand at the world’s biggest luxury watch fair, Watches & Wonders Geneva, and for 2024 the brand’s latest collection is all about color — 31 of them, to be exact. Read more here...

ZENITH

Watches & Wonders 2024: Zenith Defy Extreme Diver

In recent years, Zenith has streamlined its various product families while at the same time introducing a range of styles, materials, and colorways to appeal to as wide and diverse an audience as possible. What has been conspicuously absent from the manufacture’s lineup for more than a few years, however, has been a purpose-built watch for divers. At Watches & Wonders Geneva 2024, Zenith fills this long-unoccupied niche in its portfolio with the Defy Extreme Diver, the latest extension of the boldly stylish, envelope-pushing Defy collection. Read more here...

Zenith Defy Revival A3648 Brings Divers Back to the Collection

In recent years, Zenith has streamlined its various product families while at the same time introducing a range of styles, materials, and colorways to appeal to as wide and diverse an audience as possible. What has been conspicuously absent from the manufacture’s lineup for more than a few years, however, has been an honest-to-gosh, purpose-built dive watch. At Watches & Wonders Geneva 2024, Zenith fills this long-unoccupied niche in its portfolio — with the new Defy Extreme Diver models, which we’ll cover in detail elsewhere, and with the modern incarnation of the vintage watch that serves as their template, the Defy Revival A3648. Read more here...

Baume & Mercier

Watches & Wonders 2024: Baume & Mercier Launches Clifton Moon-Phase Editions

After several years of focusing on the growth of its 1970s-inspired, sport-luxury Riviera collection, Baume & Mercier expands the scope to its other product families at 2024’s Watches & Wonders trade fair. Particularly catching our eye at the exhibition in Geneva were two new models joining the Swiss brand’s Clifton collection, the first moon-phase timepieces to be equipped with the in-house Baumatic caliber.. Read more here...

Vacheron Constantin

Presenting the New Watches From Vacheron Constantin 2024 (Overseas, Patrimony, & More)

In this video, we take a quick look at the new releases from Vachron Constantin at Watches and Wonders 2024. We look at the brand new models including the new Gold and Green Overseas and Patrimony collection, just to name a few. Watch it here...

Watches & Wonders 2024: Vacheron Constantin Refreshes the Patrimony Collection

The modern Patrimony family that sprang from a 1957 historical timepiece turns 20 years old in 2024, and took center stage at Watches & Wonders Geneva — with two new manual-winding watches, in white gold and pink gold, and an additional white-gold model that adds a moon-phase display and a retrograde date to the minimalist two-handed time display. The two new Patrimony Manual-Winding models are noteworthy for their new, smaller case diameter — 39mm down from the 40mm of the predecessors, a subtle alteration that is in keeping with the modern trends, especially in dress watches. Read more here...

Patek Phillippe

Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse Channels ‘70s Style with Gold Chain Bracelet

Patek Philippe revealed the latest version of its historic Golden Ellipse dress watch, one of the new timepieces generating buzz in the halls of the expo. The original Golden Ellipse, launched in 1968, is Patek Philippe’s second oldest existing model behind the Calatrava. Its odd elliptical case, combining elements of an oval and a rectangle, took its influence from the “golden mean” of ancient Greek mathematicians and the basis of numerous artistic and architectural masterpieces throughout history. Read more here...

IWC

Watches & Wonders 2024: IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar Boasts 45-Million-Year Moon-Phase

At Watches & Wonders 2024, as the high-complication centerpiece of its refreshed Portugieser collection, IWC has achieved the latest milestone in the category, unveiling the aptly named Portugieser Eternal Calendar, the first timepiece whose calendar, leap years and all, will be precise for 400 years without corrections, and whose moon-phase display will remain accurate for an astonishing 45 million years. Read more here...