WWD's editors pick their favorite watches from Watches and Wonders 2024, including pieces from Patek Philippe, Tag Heuer & more.
Clockwise from top left: Rolex Deepsea, Reflection de Cartier, Piaget Ultimate Altiplano Ultimate Concept Tourbillon, IWC Schaffhausen Portugieser Eternal Calendar, Tag Heuer Monaco Split-second Chronograph, Patek Golden Ellipse, Hermès Cut.From the best new shape and fresh takes on refreshed classics to the queen of complications and a jewel that tells time, WWD’s editors pinpoint their favorite new pieces from Watches and Wonders — and those that almost made the cut.
Watchmakers are always pushing the boundaries of what is possible and that’s what IWC Schaffhausen delivered with this 44mm model, which is the first secular perpetual calendar that will be accurate until 3999, adjusting for the skipped leap years at the start of every century until the leap year of 2400. What’s more: Its moonphase will be accurate for 45 million years. Yes, you read that right. And that’s a record that more than doubles the previous milestone, also held by IWC.
On paper this chronograph has the pedigree and the lineage. In person, it’s a fine watch that honors the split-seconds “queen of complications” movement, an entirely new one developed by Tag Heuer’s director of high-end watchmaking and movements strategy Carole Kasapi with Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier. A case lightened thanks to grade-5 titanium and sapphire on both sides allows every detail, right down to the gradient stripe on the oscillating mass, to shine.
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