The Most WIRED Watches at Watches and Wonders 2026
Bremont Supernova Chronograph (From $8,000)
Bremont has spent two decades building tool watches for Air, Land, and Sea. The Supernova adds a fourth pillar: Space. It’s also a meaningful design departure for a brand whose DNA has skewed toward traditional aviation styles—this is an angular, unapologetically bold take on the integrated-bracelet blueprint, drawing its language from space stations and spacecraft both real and imagined. Oh, and one of them is going to the moon.
The 41-mm case is a geometric take on Bremont’s signature three-piece—or “Trip-Tick”—case architecture, in 904L steel with a DLC-coated middle section and a decahedral black ceramic bezel. But it’s the dial that is the showpiece: a three-dimensional latticework divided into 12 sections angling towards the center, with arrow-motif divides. Dedicated space-heads will recognise the look of solar arrays used by spacecraft like the Cygnus vehicle from Northrop Grumman, though in the watch’s case, the light comes from the other side. The dial overlays a full blue-emission Super-LumiNova base that glows out through the perforations in low light. Triangular indexes and rhomboidal black-gold hands echo the geometry. If you like your space watches still more otherworldly, Bremont is launching a skeletonized tourbillon version too.
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Hermès H08 Skeleton
The Hermès H08 has been a WIRED favorite since it launched in 2021: a seamless blend of high-fashion DNA and everyday sports utility thanks to minimal design and water resistance to 100 meters. But, for 2026, the house is now stripping that design away. Three years in development, the new Squelette marks the collection’s first foray into the world of skeletonization—the process of removing as much metal as possible from a watch’s components, such as the plate, bridges, and oscillating weight, without compromising structural integrity. It also features a brand-new titanium Hermès movement with 60-hour power reserve developed in collaboration with Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier. Sporting a 39-mm black DLC titanium case with ceramic bezel, the Squelette ditches the date window to let the (lack of) mechanical interior steal the show.
Rolex Oyster Perpetual “100 Years” Rolesor ($9,650)
Much was speculated about what Rolex would do for the centenary of the Oyster case; many hoped for a return of the Milgauss, but Rolex rarely does nostalgia. Instead, we get this far more subdued Oyster Perpetual with a two-tone Rolesor (Rolex’s term for its half gold, half steel watches) configuration pairing an Oystersteel case and bracelet with an 18-carat yellow gold bezel and crown—a nod to the 1950s reference 6582 “Zephyr”—over a new slate gray sunray dial. At six o’clock, “Swiss Made” has been replaced with “100 Years” and the crown carries a small engraved “100” that most will never notice. That’s it. After 100 years, you’d think even Rolex would want to shout a little louder.
Rolex Oyster Perpetual “Jubilee Dial” ($6,750)
The decidedly sober “100 Years” Rolesor makes this bright “Jubilee Dial” Rolex seem like it’s having all the fun. Rolex has done bold dials before, but this is possibly its most graphic yet. The monochrome steel case only makes the dial hit harder: a repeating, crossword-like pattern of the letters R-O-L-E-X rendered in 10 colors and created through a complex, multi-stage pad printing process. Up close, it reads as a structured typographic pattern; at a distance, it merges into a cloud of color. Legibility takes a back seat here, but for a bright, entry-level Oyster Perpetual at $6,750, we think many won’t care. The real impediment to ownership won’t be the price; it’ll be getting hold of one.
Tudor Black Bay Ceramic ($7,725)
Tudor’s Black Bay Ceramic takes the brand’s much-admired dive-watch formula and strips it down into something moodier, sleeker, and a little more high-tech. The 41-mm matte black ceramic case gives it a stealthy presence, but the real trick is how the brand has managed to engineer the bracelet entirely from ceramic as well, which means this wears much lighter than a stainless steel diver. The off-white indices, snowflake hands, and domed dial keep the legibility sharp, while the no-date layout preserves minimal aesthetic. Even the lume is dark in tone. Inside, Tudor backs up the design with its in-house METAS-certified MT5602-U movement, good for 70 hours of power reserve when not worn.
Patek Philippe Celestial Sunrise and Sunset ($437,610)
This year’s ubiquitous astronomical theme continues with a new edition of Patek Philippe’s most high-flown watch, the Celestial, in which a starry night sky—configured exactly for the northern hemisphere, and calibrated to Geneva’s latitude—makes a real-time turn around the dial. At any given moment, the portion of the sky framed within the elliptical window superimposed above the dial shows the visible skyscape, should you look up from that latitude on a cloudless night, including the orbit and phases of the moon. This trick is achieved via a trio of superimposed see-through disks—two in mineral glass, and one in metallized sapphire glass.
The new version, Reference 6105G-001, adds indications for the sunrise and sunset, for which the peripheral date display doubles up as a 5 am to 11 pm scale. Nothing here is understated. The platinum case, with a sculpted architectural form that lends this Celestial a distinctly contemporary edge, is—at 47 mm—as monumental as the price. As Oscar Wilde would say, “I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
