Dior Timepieces show off French creativity and Swiss watchmaking with the latest creations from the Dior Grand Bal collection,

With the Zeitwerk Lange & Söhne has been able to create an icon that can step out of the shadow of the Lange 1, and hold its ground. Yet with the Zeitwerk the brand also created something else in the process: the perfect canvas for audible complications. Already available as Striking Time, which chimes the hours and quarters, and as a Minute Repeater, it is now joined by a Decimal Strike.

The latest edition of Baselworld confirmed the obvious: two-tone is dead! Where generally at least a few brand carry the steel-gold variety, now there were no prominent watches offered in this combination. The exception to this rule is, however, Rolex, who introduced the Sky-Dweller not only in steel but also in steel-gold.

A titanium chronograph doesn't sound like something François-Paul Journe would make, yet he does, but of course, it is not just any titanium chronograph.

Just two years after introducing the de Grisogono New Retro, the watchmaking House from Geneva adds a Skeleton Tourbillon to the collection.

When it comes to watches from Glashütte, the vast majority of them are either classical pieces in precious metal cases or Bauhaus-inspired designs. In this, the steel Senator Chronograph Panorama Date by Glashütte Original stands apart in more than one way.

Diamond set watches are in a category of their own. While not everybody's taste, the technical complexity of creating them is nothing short of fascinating.

Will people ever grow bored of tourbillons? Probably not, as they are still the preferred complication of many collectors. However, it is not only the complication itself that keeps the attention, but it is also the seemingly never-ending creativity of the watch brands who continue to dream up enticing new versions of it.

It might raise a few eyebrows: using the words "Chanel" and "Watch Connoisseurs" in the same sentence. Yet the Monsieur de Chanel seems to have everything worthy of a watch connoisseur's attention.

Vintage chronographs: mention them, and you can see lights start to twinkle in the eyes of many watch collectors. All vintage chronographs share this appeal, but only a few grew out to be icons of their category. One of them is the Aero-Compax by Universal Geneve.

When Audemars Piguet introduced the very first Royal Oak in 1972, it turned stainless steel into a noble material. Although not such an instant revolution as steel was, ceramic is becoming more and more the material of choice for high-end watches, but is it the new steel?

The time that quartz movements where the staple in women's watches is slowly passing. Over the last couple of years, the demand for mechanical ladies watches has grown significantly. With mechanical watches on the rise, also comes more interest in the more complicated movements.

If there is one place to scope out new trends in watches, it is Baselworld! Sometimes you see a specific complication emerge with different brands at the same time. At other times cases or movement designs seem to follow a similar trend. This year there were surprisingly many watches with a blue dial!

One of the highlights of Baselworld this year was the Hublot MP-09 Tourbillon Bi-Axis Tourbillon. It might come as a surprise, but this watch houses the brand's very first multi-axis tourbillon. One thing that Hublot never seem to run out of is creativity, and when you combine that with having a completely vertically integrated manufacture at your fingertips amazing things can happen.

In the world of Panerai, all watches are bold, but some are bolder than others. The Luminor Submersible has always been part of that last category and achieved this not always by sheer size, but more so by its imposing design. Panerai recently introduced six new models in this collection. Time for us to take a closer look at the recruits of the new draft!

The Omega Speedmaster is one of those watches that doesn't need an introduction. Forever known as the "Moonwatch" it has carved out quite a niche for itself in the market. Rightfully, this comes with quite a few limited editions, of which the new Speedmaster Apollo XVII 45th Anniversary is one of the latest.