This year Watches and Wonders will take place beginning of April in Geneva. As you know, most (but not all) new issues from watch brands will be presented there. The internet is already full of predictions of what will happen, what new watches may be issued, where the trends will go. Many of those are based on the anniversaries falling this year.
I'm not asking you to echo those predictions (please, you can google them and get millions of opinions already, all threading more or less the same topics), rather I would like to know what you PERSONALLY want to see. What have you been waiting for and hope this is the year it finally happens. Do not limit yourself to a watch you want to see, maybe also say what trends you would like to see starting or which one you wish to die. Or even, which brand you wish would change its game and which one you wish would step it down.
Personally, I would like to see more innovation/inventiveness and risk taking in dial designs. While vintage inspirations have brought us a lot of nice watches in the last years, slowly it's beginning to be boring unless new, brave twists are added to those designs.
I also wish for the big brands to be bolder, i.e. I really am fed up with the millionth iteration of the Speedmaster, the minimal changes in Rolex models, the Black Bay series. Changing material to a known model doesn't necessarily make it new (Rolex, Tudor...). Neither changing just the dial (I'm talking to you AP).
Specifically regarding Rolex, while I'm curious about a new Coke GMT master, I'm also a bit afraid it could be disappointing in the end. Let's hope not, this seems to be the year for a new Coke. Generally though I wish they returned to more elegant and "dainty"/5-digit-like case shapes.
I wish brands like Panerai or Breguet found their roots and their raison d'être again and stopped just being autoreferential ("like the whole industry you mean?", "Yes I know, I'm an incurable romantic").
I could go on and on.
So, what do you wish? What do you expect? What do you deserve?!
I'm not asking you to echo those predictions (please, you can google them and get millions of opinions already, all threading more or less the same topics), rather I would like to know what you PERSONALLY want to see. What have you been waiting for and hope this is the year it finally happens. Do not limit yourself to a watch you want to see, maybe also say what trends you would like to see starting or which one you wish to die. Or even, which brand you wish would change its game and which one you wish would step it down.
Personally, I would like to see more innovation/inventiveness and risk taking in dial designs. While vintage inspirations have brought us a lot of nice watches in the last years, slowly it's beginning to be boring unless new, brave twists are added to those designs.
I also wish for the big brands to be bolder, i.e. I really am fed up with the millionth iteration of the Speedmaster, the minimal changes in Rolex models, the Black Bay series. Changing material to a known model doesn't necessarily make it new (Rolex, Tudor...). Neither changing just the dial (I'm talking to you AP).
Specifically regarding Rolex, while I'm curious about a new Coke GMT master, I'm also a bit afraid it could be disappointing in the end. Let's hope not, this seems to be the year for a new Coke. Generally though I wish they returned to more elegant and "dainty"/5-digit-like case shapes.
I wish brands like Panerai or Breguet found their roots and their raison d'être again and stopped just being autoreferential ("like the whole industry you mean?", "Yes I know, I'm an incurable romantic").
I could go on and on.
So, what do you wish? What do you expect? What do you deserve?!
