The True Square Open heart features a square case with rounded corners and softened edges, giving it a delicate and intimate appearance. Measuring 38mm wide, 44.2mm long, and sitting at 9.7mm high on the wrist, it is a versatile and comfortable-wearing watch for a variety of wrist sizes. Rado is offering the timepiece in two colorways, with each sporting a high-tech ceramic case with monobloc construction in its respective color. On the reverse is a sandblasted titanium case back with either white or black PVD coating and sapphire crystal. 

The centerpiece of this design is a romantic skeletonized dial that reveals the beating heart of the watch. For the white version, gold-colored details and sparkling diamond indices bring the dial to life, while the black example is adorned with brilliant rose gold-colored indices and hands with high-tech black ceramic accents. Rado chose this open-worked design specifically to highlight the vitality of the watch, evocative of a love-struck racing heart.

The beating heart revealed by the delicate skeleton dial is the R734 automatic caliber. It boasts a gentle oscillation of the balance spring complemented by the melodic click of the gears moving within. The mechanism offers an extended power reserve of 80 hours, ensuring that the True Square Open Heart is viable even if it has been set down for a while. 

The Rado True Square Open Heart with a polished white case (ref. R27073702) retails for $3,050 while the version with a polished black case (ref. R27086162) retails for $2,550. 

To learn more, visit Rado here.

Those interested in the new BR 05 GMT White will have the unique opportunity to see it in person at this year’s WatchTime New York 2022. The event is a three-day trade show and collector’s gathering dedicated to showcasing the most sought-after watch releases from the past year.  The event will take place from October 21-23, with more than 30 participating watch brands joining together at Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall. You can learn more and buy your tickets, here.

On the wrist, the BR 05 GMT White features a 41mm, rounded-corner square case that wears 11.07mm in height. The steel exterior is satin-finished and polished in an elevated contrast, with the option of a bracelet or strap seamlessly meeting the edge of the case for a classic integrated aesthetic. Four screws on its four bezel corners add another Bell & Ross visual signature to the steel reference, while a pair of crown guards add to its sporty appeal. 

The silver opaline dial is at work underneath a sapphire crystal, with its clean style contrasted via two red accents in the GMT pointer and matching “GMT” script printed towards the center of the display. On the exterior edge of the dial, a 24-hour scale wraps around the configuration to assist in travel timekeeping. Applied indices and a matching handset both typical of Bell & Ross provide the standard local time alongside a date indicator at the 3 o’clock position. 

Powering the watch is the automatic Bell & Ross caliber BR-CAL.325. The mechanism features a 42-hour power reserve and is water resistant up to 100 meters. The movement also makes it possible to change the timezone without disrupting the accuracy of the local time display via a quick setting of the GMT hand independent of the hour hand. All of the intricacies of the caliber, including a 360° oscillating weight are revealed through a sapphire caseback.

The Bell & Ross BR 05 GMT White is available for purchase now via the brand directly and from authorized retailers, with pricing marked at $5,000 on a rubber strap and $5,500 on a steel bracelet. 

To learn more, visit Bell & Ross, here.

And to learn more about WatchTime New York and to purchase your tickets, visit here.

Exposed to the extreme conditions in the stratosphere, the automatic chronograph movement amasses a power reserve of 60 hours and is equipped with a column-wheel. In addition to the stop watch functionality, the watch offers a date and weekday indication located at 3 o’clock on the white or gray dial.

Luminous markers in light blue also indicate time intervals important for space travel. These flights can be divided into three phases: an ascent phase of up to 90 minutes, a takeoff phase lasting up to 90 seconds, and the period of zero gravity, which lasts up to a maximum of 15 minutes.

The Stratoliner S-41 embarks on its journey to outer atmosphere in a stainless steel case which has a diameter of 41 mm and a water-resistance of 200 meters. It retails for $5,150.

To learn more, visit Fortis, here.

The watch’s stainless steel, triangular shield-shaped case (some have likened it to a guitar shape, a la Elvis) measures 34.5 mm by 38 mm in diameter and 10.55 mm thick and frames a textured, multi-dimensional dial defined by an embossed triangle motif. The play of light reflections on the dial as well as on the shiny, polished surfaces of the case create a kaleidoscope effect in which the tiny geometric shapes appear to vibrate and move with the motions of the wearer’s wrist.

The dial is available in black or white versions, both with nickel-plated, off-center hands for hours, minutes, and seconds; Super-LumiNova coats the first two. Each dial version is matched to an integrated rubber strap of the same color, which fastens to the wrist with a stainless steel pin buckle. As the watch’s name implies, a Swiss quartz movement hums inside the 50-meter water resistant case.

Both versions of the Hamilton Ventura S Quartz (Ref. H24251310 in white, Ref. H24251330 in black) are available now, priced in the U.S. at $725.

The launch of the new design comes on the heels of plenty other notable releases from Bremont this year, including the all-purpose Supermarine Chrono and Supermarine S302 GMT Diver watches, the lightweight MB Savanna, and the latest watch to emerge from Bremont’s England Rugby partnership, the RFU 150 GMT Diver.

The Longitude, like several other of the British watchmaker’s models, was produced in partnership with Royal Museums Greenwich, the modern recorder of the historic Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, from which GMT time, and later global time zones, were first conceptualized and implemented. Recalling the watershed timekeeping work of the observatory — much of which was based on global locations largely derived from longitudinal positions — Bremont not only named its watch the Longitude, but also added various motifs to it that evoke Britain’s historically significant horological contributions.  

The three models are cased in steel, rose gold or white gold, and feature a variety of differing accent and dials colors. In silhouette, the cases resemble other variations of Bremont’s increasingly recognizable style, complete with large rounded lugs and a stepped-style, multi-piece case construction dubbed Trip-Tick. The case wears comfortably but slightly large on the wrist at 40 mm by 49 mm in dimension, with a thickness of 12.5 mm. It features a screw-down onion crown that recalls those seen on vintage pocketwatches. However, despite sharing this element, the gold versions of the Longitude are only capable of a 50-meter water resistance while the steel models offer a somewhat hardier 100-meter water resistance.

Scanning the dial under the sapphire crystal, we come to the first explicit motif on the Longitude, namely a raised central globe debossed with the watch’s namesake longitude lines. A meridian line in red runs from the 12 to 6 o’clock positions, adding a touch of color and meeting up with a color-matched ball-shaped power reserve indicator that turns from white to red when fully charged. The indicator is another nod to timekeeping history, recalling the red ball hoisted atop the Royal Observatory of Greenwich at 1:00 pm each day to help set Standard Time across the region and world since 1833.

Aside from its various symbolic elements, the dial is plenty appealing on its own, with a contrasting outer minute ring, applied and lume-filled markers at most positions, broken up only at 3 o’clock by a big date display and then again, in parallel, at 9 o’clock with an indented subdial for the running seconds. A pair of vintage-influenced, nickel-plated hands sweep over the face to display the hours and minutes.

For a watch already steeped in intrigue by its aesthetic inspiration, its most significant aspect lies within: the new Bremont Caliber ENG376, the first variation of the caliber ENG300 (below) announced in mid-October 2021 and hailed as Bremont’s first movement assembled and largely manufactured at its The Wing, its manufacturing facility in Henley-on-Thames, U.K. While developed with Swiss know-how derived from an exclusive partnership with mechanical expert THE+, Bremont has taken the original base caliber K1 and upgraded it, re-engineering 80 percent of it, and also developing the domestic manufacturing capabilities to produce the movement within the new facility.

The automatic ENG376 features a silicon escapement, a custom balance bridge, and a tungsten rotor recalling the industrial style at Bremont’s new manufacture, and like the base ENG300 features an impressive 65-hour power reserve and chronometer accuracy. Setting the ENG376 apart from the standard 300 is its use of original brass from the historic Flamsteed Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, which forms a ring along the caseback and is engraved with the serial and edition number of the timepiece. This subtle element serves as the final motif recalling historic British horological prestige.  

The Bremont Longitude will be available for purchase globally in early December, with the steel edition limited to 150 pieces and priced at $16,995, and the rose-gold and white-gold versions, limited to 75 pieces, marked at $23,995 and $24,995, respectively. A portion of each sale will benefit Royal Museums Greenwich, Bremont’s partner for the limited-edition, commemorative launch.

To learn more, visit Bremont, here.