A limited production of a classic shape Cartier always causes a stir. But this is particularly the case when only 90 examples were made, for the 90th, with a salmon dial—of the Santos Dumont. The Santos Dumont was Cartier’s first wristwatch shape and one of the very first men’s purpose-made...

This, ref. DAAG01, is a 2025-revived Daniel Roth—and one is currently auctioning for the first time ever. Daniel Roth the brand returned in 2023 under La Fabrique du Temps / Louis Vuitton and the tourbillon that reopened the brand sits deliberately close to the 1988 original. However, the man himself...

One could argue whether the Resonance or Tourbillon is FP Journe’s signature, but it’s certainly one of the pair. The Tourbillon Souverain ‘TN’—Tourbillon Nouveau — debuted in April 2004 and ran until 2018, when the Tourbillon Souverain Vertical and its calibre 1519 succeeded. It replaced the brass-movement Reference T directly,...

A ref. 110.049—better known as the Dubail—is about to head to auction for the first time in awhile, and that’s a big deal for the Lange 1. It belongs to the Soirée family, introduced in 2001, which gave the Lange 1 a mother-of-pearl dial. Most say the reference was created...

This is a salmon dial 25661BC, a unicorn amongst 36mm QP collecting. Audemars Piguet built reference 25661 from 1985 to 1994, and the factory ledgers put total output at 342 pieces: 244 in yellow gold, 37 in platinum, 32 in white gold, and 29 in pink gold. That makes the...

The Asymétrique began in 1936, when Cartier unveiled a watch that deliberately broke its own rules. Known originally as the Tank Parallélogramme (also the Oblique), it was the last Tank released during Louis Cartier's lifetime. Its lozenge-shaped case tilted the dial 30 degrees clockwise, a trick born of the era's...