Geneva, May 2026: The Auction That Broke the Scale
17 September 2026
The Journal
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Twelve years after the Metro date power reserve carried NOMOS’s first in-house escapement, the design gets a galvanized ice-blue dial and a new hand-wound calibre with a quick-set date and 52 hours of reserve. Its automatic sibling, the Metro neomatik 41 Update, takes the same colour.
The First Legacy Machine, Rebuilt for Real Life: MB&F LM1 EVO
Fifteen years after the LM1 opened MB&F’s classical chapter, and nine years after it retired, the dual-time watch returns in a 42 mm EVO case with 80 metres of water resistance, a 60-hour reserve and straps that swap without tools.
Richemont Cuts at Montblanc as the Watch Division’s Profit Collapses
Six redundancies and seventeen internal transfers at Montblanc’s Swiss operations expose the uneven recovery inside Richemont’s watch portfolio, where the specialist watchmakers’ operating profit has fallen by more than four fifths.
Choose Your Side: Omega Gives James Bond and Spectre Equal Billing
Six Seamaster Diver 300M watches, one calibre, two allegiances: Omega marks Global James Bond Day 2026 with the first collection to give 007 and his nemesis the same watch, from $8,600 steel editions to 77-piece platinum-gold sets.
The Online Saleroom Grows Teeth: A $1 Million Voutilainen and a €448,000 Paul Newman
Phillips New York sold all 88 lots in its biggest online sale, led by a steel Voutilainen at $1,016,000, while Sotheby’s Paris watched a fresh-to-market Paul Newman Daytona make €448,000. The autumn market did not wait for Geneva.
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The Resonance Effect: How Independent Watchmaking Conquered the Auction Room
In May 2026, a steel watch by a 39-year-old Geneva watchmaker sold for CHF 3 million, and a two-tone Journe made CHF 4.9 million. The long story of how the independents went from the margins of the industry to the centre of the market.
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