By Roberta Naas It’s another bang-up year for Jacob & Co., the brand that has been offering daring extremes in watches for years. This year, the brand continues to stretch the imagination and bring the incredible to fruition in two new timepieces that will have you lusting to see the watches in person. Taking the already well-known and much-loved Astronomia to new heights, Jacob & Co unveils a new realm in three-dimensional glory with the Astronomia Sky watch. While this timepiece may be a third generation of the original Astronomia Tourbillon that was first introduced in 2014, it is a totally new rendition – a reconfigured movement and a new complication. In fact, the Astronomia Sky Triple Axis Gravitational Tourbillon offers astronomical sidereal time display (tracking solar time and calendar time), a celestial sky dial, a three-dimensional moon and a center globe of the Earth.

By Roberta Naas It is a big year for Ulysse Nardin. The brand that has regularly been on the cutting edge of technology and innovation once again wows us with its technical prowess. At this year’s BaselWorld, Ulysse Nardin takes a bold leap forward – combining its marine heritage roots dating back to the 1800’s with a visionary look forward. For the first time ever, the brand introduces two new haute horology complexities into the Marine Chronometer line. Now, before you have the chance to say it, we will acknowledge it: building a COSC-certified Marine Chronometer is already a horological accomplishment. However, this year Ulysse Nardin takes the line to all new heights.

By Jordan Smith For their latest collaboration with Hublot, Berluti has taken their tradition for fine leather craftsmanship a step further with the Hublot Classic Fusion Berluti. In the new piece, Hublot's innovative brand of watchmaking meets Berluti's emblematic Venezia leather and patina for the creation of a piece that makes leather the undisputed star.

By Victoria Townsend Among the many novelties from Patek Philippe this year, the World Time Chronograph Ref. 5930 is gaining favours with the press and collectors. For the first time, the Geneva-based watchbrand combines its patented World Time mechanism with a proprietary chronograph, resulting in an easy-to- read and easy-to-use timepiece that provides the local time in hours and minutes, a display of 24 time zones, day/night indications, a chronograph hand and a 30-minute chronograph counter at 6 o’clock.

By Roberta Naas As technology and Nano-technology continues to evolve, watch brands are becoming ever more adept at making more precise components for watches and at finding new and different ways to put components together for incredibly advanced timing. This leads to a host of new developments and the ones we expect to see shine brightly at this year’s show are tourbillons, skeletonized watches, calendars and multi-timers. With such great thrust forward into new technical aspects, we have also witnessed a resurgence in the use of new materials and we expect to see a host of cool high-tech materials emerge, as well as a small foray into some beloved not-much-used watch materials such as bronze.

By Roberta Naas Every year around this time, hundreds of thousands of watch lovers, watch brands, retailers and global press descend on the small town of Basel, Switzerland. While the cheese, chocolate and quaint architecture are nice attractions, the main focus is the Baselworld International Watch and Jewelry exhibition. This premier show is universally recognized as the key place to see the newest and greatest watch and jewelry unveilings. This is where history is made, and where wrist trends for the coming years start their journey.

Take a sneak-peek at our most anticipated Baselworld releases.