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The watch culture in the Netherlands has been steadily growing over a good number of years, and we’re able to show another new and rather neat watch project to the already diverse group of brands and watchmakers stemming from our small country. Founded by two Dutchmen with a deep passion for watches and developed over […]

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} } Kari Voutilainen Lectures on Feb. 2 The Voutilainen Workshop/ The Art of Hand-Guilloché Decoration Kari Voutilainen, Administrator, The Voutilainen Workshop (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland) February 2, 2026 Since 2002, the Voutilainen workshop’s evolution and its founder’s philosophy have been expressed through refined and robust in-house mechanisms, high-level finishing, distinctive cases, and hand-guilloché dials. This in-depth journey, presented by independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen, highlights his workshop’s most exclusive timepieces, shaped by a unique blend of Finnish and Swiss influences, and showcasing mastery across complications such as minute repeaters, tourbillons, and emblematic in-house calibers, like the VINGT-8. At the February 2026 lecture of the Horological Society of New York (HSNY), discover the extraordinary hand-guilloché savoir-faire history through the Brodbeck Guillochage center of excellence, housed in the historic watchmaking school of Fleurier in Switzerland, where tradition and métiers d’art come together. Explore this unique heritage that inspires the creation of exceptional works of art, elevating every detail into a luminous expression of precision, mastery, and refined artistry. *Doors open at 5:30 PM ET, lecture to begin at 6 PM ET. RSVP is required. ** The lecture video will be available to members immediately, and to the general public following a two-month delay. JOIN THE WAITLIST Demand for this lecture is expected to be high. Should you no longer be able to attend, please cancel your ticket to allow another member the opportunity to join us. Previous Lecture: Shared Time: Public Clocks and the Life of New York City Suzanne Dirks, Artist and Educator (New York, New York) January 5, 2026 VIEW THE LECTURE HSNY Announces 2026 Global Financial Aid Opportunities for Watchmaking Students New Independent Watchmaker Grant Joins Expanded Scholarship Portfolio The Horological Society of New York (HSNY) announces its 2026 financial aid opportunities for watchmaking students and professionals. With HSNY’s scholarship budget tripling in 2026, thanks to the generous support of the Vogt Foundation, this is the first year applications will be open globally, expanding access to financial aid for watchmaking students worldwide. The comprehensive portfolio includes 10 scholarships and awards, highlighted by the newly established Independent Watchmaker Grant, which supports practicing independent watchmakers in advancing their craft and businesses. About the New Independent Watchmaker Grant The HSNY Independent Watchmaker Grant supports emerging independent watchmakers by providing funding for essential tools and startup expenses. This program is designed to encourage innovation and craftsmanship at the highest level of horology. Grant recipients are selected based on criteria that include originality of concept, quality of finishing, and excellence in design, with special emphasis placed on projects that explore complications and novel mechanical movements. Through this initiative, HSNY advances its mission to support technical skill, artistic expression, and independent creativity within the watchmaking community. Independent watchmakers who are developing original timepieces are eligible to apply for the HSNY Independent Watchmaker Grant. Awards of up to $50,000 are available.  2026 Financial Aid Opportunities In addition to the new Independent Watchmaker Grant, HSNY is offering nine scholarships to support watchmaking students and institutions globally. Veterans, students, and practicing watchmakers interested in applying can find detailed information on HSNY's website at www.hs-ny.org.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT... LEARN MORE Welcoming New HSNY Members  HSNY would like to welcome the following new members. It is only with our members' support that we are able to continue flourishing as America's oldest watchmaking guild and advancing the art and science of horology every day.  GOLD Brett Walsdorf, NY * Derek OLeary, FL Donald Kim, NY Esther Kremer, NY Jack D. McCarthy, Jr., CT Joshua Rucker, MA Rich Pinto, NY * SILVER Bob Pilarinos, NY Douglas Smail, NY Lyndon Park, NY Robert Meringolo, NY Scott Nagrod, NJ BRONZE Anthony Demarco, PA Arash Hashemi, NJ Blake Spaulding, KY Brandon Davis, NC Christian Meili, NY Courtney Bachrach, NY Craig Harris, NY David Eckell, IL Douglas J. Lewan, MI Erick Smith, TN Glen A. Legere, MA Igor Gavrilovic, NJ Irving corrales, NJ Jasmine Bapic, FL Jayesh Kumar, NY Jillian Santos, NY John Michael Carty, AL Jorge Santos, NY Kevin Walsh, FL Mary Pratt, NY Sean T. Carnathan, MA Souren Ouzounian, NJ Stephan Meili, NY Stephen Milioti, NY William Winegar, TX * Upgraded Membership Level   BECOME A MEMBER GIFT A MEMBERSHIP Reading Time at HSNY: Form Time to Time This post is part of a series, Reading Time at HSNY, written by our librarians. Today’s post was written by Miranda Marraccini. Picture this: you roll up to a meeting at work a few minutes early. Eyeing the empty seats around the perimeter of the conference table, you put your hand in your pocket and pull out…a tiny pair of deep red cherries. Is it some bizarre snacking ritual, your team wonders? A display of power over your dilatory direct reports? Suddenly, you pop open one of the cherries with a flourish, revealing a watch dial where the pit should be. You were checking the time! Everyone in the conference room is impressed and astonished. Thank you for indulging me in this scene. It’s imaginary, but the watch I described is very real, made in Geneva around 1830. Each cherry is about 20 mm across; the non-watch cherry contains perfume (image 1). These kinds of fantastical watches in unusual shapes are often called “form watches”; I contributed to an article in The New York Times about them in 2023. At the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, improvements in the technology of enameling and engraving on metal encouraged creativity in watch production. Artisans conjured realistic but tiny fruits, animals, hot air balloons, and different miniaturized musical instruments including lyres, mandolins, and even bagpipes. They are meant to be beautiful first, but they also show off the technical mastery of the Genevan artisans who created them–it is very difficult to create such tiny watch movements–ones as small as 10 mm across.  In “Watches of Fantasy,” a book in our library at the Horological Society of New York (HSNY), Fabienne Sturm has some ideas about why form watches were created, including to soften the inevitable blow of time passing. Time “endears himself to us when we measure his passing in the heel of a wooden shoe or under the wings of a pair of doves,” Sturm writes (I’ve included an image of the shoe she references in the header above.)  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL POST... On The Horological Horizon...    NEW YORK CITY COURSES Horology 101 — February 10 Horology 102 — February 19 Horology 101 to 103 — February 21 WEEKEND CLASS Horology 101 — February 24 Horology 103 — February 26 Horology 101 to 103 — February 28 WEEKEND CLASS Horology 101 — March 10 Horology 104 — March 12 Horology 101 to 103 — March 14  WEEKEND CLASS Horology 102 — March 19 Horology 101 to 103 — March 21  WEEKEND CLASS Horology 101 — March 24 Horology 103 — March 26 Horology 104 — April 23 TRAVELING EDUCATION Horology 101-103 in WASHINGTON, D.C. [March 14 - 15] Horology 101-103 in ATLANTA [March 28 - 29] NEW DATE Horology 101-103 in CHICAGO [April 11 - 12] JUST ADDED! GALA & CHARITY AUCTION Saturday, March 21, 2026 SOLD OUT Click here to register for classes! Join the waitlist here! GIFT A CLASS THE ALLIANCE OF BRITISH WATCH AND CLOCK MAKERS British Watchmakers’ Day — March 7, 2026 British Watchmakers’ Day, held annually in Westminster, London, gathers around 1,800 watch collectors, enthusiasts and people working in the sector and serves as a platform for U.K. Trade members to sell and promote their timepieces. 26 exhibiting brands will present Special Edition watches exclusively available for visitors to the show. Learn more here! Come shop with us! HSNY has started selling a small number of used books on time and timekeeping to the dedicated connoisseur of horology. Do you have 19 copies of Britten’s Old Clocks and Watches and need one more to round out your collection? Have aliens abducted your rare and elusive copy of Die deutsche Räderuhr and beamed it aboard their mothership? Has your dog eaten your vital copy of Modern Watch Repairing and Adjusting on the very weekend that you need to service your boss’s vintage Rolex? Don’t be caught unprepared! Come visit HSNY’s library to find these bibliographic gems and more. Our offerings are constantly changing so stop by our library anytime and see what’s new. DONATE TO HSNY HSNY thanks our sponsors for their generous support Copyright © 2026 Horological Society of New York, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences 

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The intersection of independent watchmaking and a luxury maison savoir-faire rarely produces work of genuine consequence. Most collaborations remain superficial exercises in badge engineering, little more than dial swaps dressed in marketing hyperbole. However, the De Bethune X Louis Vuitton LVDB-03 Louis Varius project, unveiled as part of the Louis Vuitton Watch Prize for Independent Creatives, shatters this paradigm entirely.

(Updated February 2, 2026) It’s  Groundhog Day here in America — a day designated to the furry creature who emerges from his burrow to determine whether or not spring is in the air. As the folklore tale goes, if the groundhog comes out of his burrow and can’t see his shadow — typically because the… The post It’s Groundhog Day And, No Surprise, Six More Weeks Of Winter appeared first on ATimelyPerspective.

DEPLOYANT - The watch magazine for collectors, by collectors Piaget releases a new version of their Polo 79, now available in two tone white gold and yellow gold. Press Release information with commentary in italics. New: Piaget Polo 79 Two-Tone The Piaget Polo 79 Two-Tone Ref. G0A51150 retails at CHF 79,500 / SGD 129,000 inclusive of GST. Commentary We first covered the re-release of [...] The post New: Piaget Polo 79 Two-Tone appeared first on DEPLOYANT.

After several years working closely with Greubel Forsey, Michel Nydegger has now spent a year and a half at the helm of the brand founded by Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey. With a deep, first-hand understanding of the manufacture, its philosophy, and its people, Nydegger offers a thoughtful perspective on leadership and sustainability at one […]

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Hermès expands the Squelette Lune range with two new titanium and platinum models displaying the lunar cycle as seen from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The earlier Slim d’Hermès Squelette Lune combined a 39.5mm bead‑blasted Grade 5 titanium case with a polished platinum bezel. The new releases, however, take this concept further. One watch […] Visit Introducing: Two New Hermès Slim d’Hermès Squelette Lune Watches In Titanium And Platinum to read the full article.

In both steel and shimmering “moonshine” gold executions, the technical beauty (and glamor) of the legendary chronograph successfully splashes down once again. On a wrist near you.

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You’ve got to hand it to Papar Watch Co.; the young American brand certainly has a unique way of doing things. It all started with the radically brutalist Anillo GMT, and now the Cenote debuts. The Cenote Titanium + Blue and Rose Gold Titanium are dive watches with a design that builds on the angular, […] Visit Hands-On With The Angular Papar Cenote Titanium + Blue And Rose Gold Titanium to read the full article.

Here’s the third of the five collaboration watches done by Louis Vuitton with some of the most revered independent watchmakers. Indeed, following the LVRR-01 Chronographe à Sonnerie made with Rexhep Rexhepi, founder of Atelier Akrivia, and the LVKV-02 GMR 6 made with Finnish-born watchmaker Kari Voutilainen, it’s time now for LV to unveil its project […]

The Louis Vuitton × De Bethune LVDB-03 Louis Varius Project is an extremely contemporary take on a classical idea: the sympathique clock.The post Louis Vuitton & De Bethune have created a sympathique clock that finally lets the watch leave home appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

A limited edition travel watch and a pair of incredible Sympathique clocks form the latest Indie-driven collaboration for Louis Vuitton.

Welcome back to another installment of Back to Basics, our series aimed at newcomers to the watch world. This time, we’re looking into watches that set a good starting point for a collection. Which watches make for a good “first real watch”? I will provide a selection of different categories. You can consider these different […] Visit Back To Basics: Watches That Set A Good Starting Point For A Collection to read the full article.

Canadian microbrand Héron’s Marinor hiatus comes to an end with an updated second generation for its best selling model.The post Héron updates its Marinor, a well-deserved refresh and refinement of its best seller appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.