A. Lange & Söhne, Franck Muller, and H. Moser & Cie. make up some of our favourite watches for October with offerings that exude poise, nuanced artistry, and sportive elegance
Watch collectors have plenty to sink their teeth into this month. While some of us already have one eye on year-end festivities and long-awaited holidays, the finest watchmakers around the world have been quietly (and not so quietly) unveiling a suite of sumptuous new models. From poetic minimalism to sculptural audacity, here are the best watches from October 2025.
H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Tourbillon Pierre Gasly
H. Moser & Cie. has never been shy about collaborations. With the new Streamliner Tourbillon Pierre Gasly, the maison once again proves that when it chooses a partner, it does so with intent and gusto. Created hand-in-hand with the Formula 1 driver, the timepiece is an eye-striking affair, rendered through an exquisite 40mm red gold case with a rich chocolate fumé dial chosen by Gasly himself.
Boasting a mesmerising one-minute flying tourbillon at 6 o’clock and driven by the in-house HMC 805 with its double hairspring system, the watch distils both mechanical mastery and sportive elegance. Limited to 100 pieces on a chocolate rubber strap and 10 pieces on an integrated red-gold bracelet—the latter distinguished by a subtle ruby at the 10 o’clock marker—the timepiece offers 72-hour power reserve.
A. Lange & Söhne Saxonia Thin in Onyx
A. Lange & Söhne elevates achieves watchmaking purity and poise with the new Saxonia Thin in Onyx. Long a benchmark for restrained sophistication, the Saxonia Thin has always charmed purists with its clean dial, slim baton markers, and ultra-slender silhouette. This latest iteration maintains that minimalist ethos, but the addition of a deep black onyx dial introduces a formal stateliness.
Housed in a refined 40mm case—offered in proprietary Honeygold or platinum and measuring just 6.2mm thick—the watch manages be to svelte without sacrificing wrist presence. The warmth of Honeygold lends depth and richness to the onyx, while platinum’s cool restraint heightens its glossy allure. Powered by the hand-wound Calibre L093.1,that boasts a 72-hour power reserve, the timepiece proving once again that understatement, when executed at this level, possesses an indubitable brilliance.
Franck Muller Vanguard
Franck Muller reveals a more nuanced side to its bold design language with the new Asia-Pacific-exclusive Vanguard. While the signature tonneau silhouette and assertive proportions remain, a newfound elegance emerges through a newly developed pavé de losanges guilloché dial. Sporting interlocking diamond motifs, the dial is crafted entirely in-house and sculpted across four stamping stages to create remarkable depth and light play.
Balancing architectural texture with flowing curves, the timepiece is refined by a bead-blasted bezel, semi-openworked hands, and hand-applied numerals, all paired with an integrated alligator strap with rubber lining for everyday ease. Offered in five colours and powered by the automatic Calibre MVT 2536-SCDT with a 42-hour reserve, this Vanguard evinces Franck Muller’s understanding of geometric harmony.
Zenith Defy Skyline Tourbillon in rose gold
Marking a milestone year in which Zenith celebrates its 160th anniversary, the new Defy Skyline Tourbillon emerges as one of the maison’s most dazzling releases yet. While recent highlights like the G.F.J and Defy Chronograph USM have underscored Zenith’s technical and stylistic range, this latest creation pushes spectacle to elegant new heights. The 41mm timepiece debuts the Skyline in 18k rose gold for the first time, paired with a brick-red dial inspired by the manufacture in Le Locle.
Sporting a tourbillon at six o’clock that’s framed by engraved four-pointed stars that shimmer as the watch moves, the timepiece radiates a celestial presence. Elsewhere, rose-gold markers, faceted hands, and an integrated H-link bracelet reinforce its luxurious yet contemporary character, while the legendary El Primero 3630 calibre inside beats at 5 Hz and delivers a 50-hour power reserve.
Montblanc Star Legacy Suspended Exo Tourbillon Château de Versailles
Montblanc travels back to Versailles circa 1745 with the Star Legacy Suspended Exo Tourbillon Château de Versailles. While its 44.8mm yellow-gold case nods to Baroque splendour, it’s the dial that truly commands attention. Inspired by an 18th-century Cochin etching, it layers white gold, black enamel, gold paillons, Cacholong opal, Sarrancolin marble, oak parquetry, and sapphire-etched figures to conjure candlelit court life with astonishing depth and shimmer.
At 12 o’clock, a white champlevé enamel subdial encircles a micro-sculpted Apollo head taken from Versailles’ Salon de Vénus, while at 6 o’clock, Montblanc’s patented Suspended Exo Tourbillon hovers above its cage beneath a single arched bridge. Powered by the hand-wound MB M16.68 with a 50-hour reserve, the timepiece is and limited to eight.
Blancpain Villeret Golden Hour Series
Blancpain injects fresh elegance into its most classical line with the new Villeret Golden Hour series, unveiling 16 references that refine the maison’s timeless aesthetic. The update revolves around three core models—the 40mm Ultraplate, the 40mm Quantième Complet Phases de Lune, and the 33.2mm Quantième Phases de Lune—each receiving subtle refinements. Among these are: slimmer hands, sharper Roman numerals, a polished JB appliqué at 12 o’clock, and rich new dial tones in opaline and golden brown that lend the Villeret a more contemporary poise.
Across steel and 18k red-gold executions, the collection balances understatement and formality with graceful proportion updates that include thinner bezels and shortened lugs. The Calibre 1151 powers the time-only Ultraplate with a 100-hour reserve, while the Calibre 6654.4 delivers a 72-hour reserve and discreet under-lug correctors for the complete calendar and moonphase model. The smaller moonphase variant, powered by the Calibre 913QL.P, offers steel or gold options with or without diamond bezels.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Tribute Enamel Xu Beihong
Jaeger-LeCoultre is already looking ahead to the 2026 Lunar New Year of the Horse. Its latest Reverso Tribute Enamel ‘Xu Beihong’ series pays homage to the famed Chinese artist who immortalised horses with rare emotional power. Nearly a century after the Reverso was created for polo players, the reversible case once designed for sport now serves as a canvas for cultural dialogue, bridging East and West through enamel and guilloché.
Each of the three white-gold references—The Running Horse, Two Horses and The Standing Horse—is limited to 10 pieces and features a miniature enamel interpretation of Xu Beihong’s expressive brushwork, executed over 80 painstaking hours by Métiers Rares artisans. Complementing the casebacks, grand feu enamel dials in symbolic hues—pine green, mountain blue and dawn orange—sit atop hand-guillochéd bases, heralding a new year just before it arrives.
Hublot MP-17 MECA-10 Arsham Splash Titanium Sapphire
Hublot’s latest collaboration with New York artist Daniel Arsham, the MP-17 Meca-10 Arsham Splash Titanium Sapphire, channels the kinetic essence of water. Arsham’s fascination with time, its collapse, erosion, and suspended states, manifests in a case that resembles a droplet mid-motion, its frosted sapphire contours and splash-shaped aperture dissolving the boundary between horology and contemporary art.
Limited to 99 pieces, the sculptural 42mm titanium creation houses the HUB1205 Meca-10 manual-wind calibre, offering 10 days of power and a view into its industrial architecture through sapphire surfaces.
