In the final instalment of a three-part series, Robb Report Singapore presents a hotly debated—but ultimately, unanimously concurred—list comprising 26 of the team’s favourite timepieces of the year
They come in all shapes, sizes, design, and functionality. Narrowing our selection to the 26 watches of 2026 that stirred the most affection in the team has not been easy, and now that we have arrived at the final list, we see range that is striking and varied. From a svelte three-hand dress watch loaded with mechanical prowess to grand complications that stretch the imagination of makers and collectors alike, this tightly curated line-up shows just how captivating the world’s finest watches can be when they are made with love and integrity.
Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Tech
We’re not saying the new Fifty Fathoms Tech will make you a professional diver, but it certainly isn’t playing dress-up. Descended from the 1953 original that helped define the modern dive watch, this latest Fifty Fathoms arrives with a clear sense of purpose. While the original Fifty Fathoms popularised the secured rotating bezel for tracking dive time in 60-minute increments, the Fifty Fathoms Tech expands upon the idea with a three-hour bezel and corresponding hand.
Meanwhile, its 47mm titanium case offers 300m of water resistance, while the black dial absorbs 97 per cent of light for stronger underwater legibility. Add a tool-less strap change system, a date display, and the automatic Calibre 13P5A with a 120-hour power reserve, and the Fifty Fathoms Tech feels like a proper instrument, albeit one with serious pedigree.
Bovet Récital 32
Bovet’s Récital 32, the brand’s first true GMT watch, takes collectors on a journey into the worlds of artistry, decoration, and mechanical theatre. It pairs practical travel time with an expanded flying tourbillon, a 10-day power reserve, and a level of hand-finished detail that makes utility feel beside the point. Housed in a 42mm case, its displays local time on an offset domed guilloche dial at noon, encircled by a 24-hour track for the independent GMT hand.
A dedicated pusher at 10 o’clock advances the GMT indication, while a day/night display keeps the whole arrangement intuitive. The 375-component manufacture movement is hand-finished, with a new ‘square stars’ motif on the reverse-side plates requiring at least 15 hours of engraving. Available in titanium or 18k red gold across three colour combinations, each variation is limited to 60 pieces.
Breguet Classique Tourbillon 7357
Created to mark 225 years since Abraham-Louis Breguet patented the tourbillon in 1801, the Classique Tourbillon 7357 is a stunning embodiment of the brand’s centuries-long expertise. It follows in the footsteps of Ref. 3350, the first tourbillon wristwatch produced by modern-day Breguet in 1989.
Its new Calibre 187B is the direct successor to that historic movement, retaining the hand-wound architecture and frequency while introducing contemporary refinements including a 60-hour power reserve, Breguet Nivachron balance spring, and silicon escapement.
The 35mm case in platinum or Breguet gold is restrained and elegant. Meanwhile, the dial, caseback and caseband feature stupendous hand decoration with Clous de Paris pattern at the centre, barleycorn around the periphery, and the brand’s signature fluted caseband decorating the side.
Franck Muller Vanguard Aero Revolution 3 Skeleton
A creative horological force, Franck Muller has once again, with no small amount of panache, flexed its watchmaking pedigree with the Vanguard Aero Revolution 3 Skeleton. The complication at its heart is the Revolution 3, a tri-axial tourbillon that was introduced by Franck Muller in 2004.
Unlike a conventional tourbillon, which rotates the regulating organ on a single axis, the Revolution 3 multiplies that motion across three concentric cages, rotating once every 60 seconds, eight minutes, and 60 minutes, respectively. The result is a constantly shifting mechanical display designed to counter the effects of gravity across multiple positions. A fully openworked tonneau case amplifies the mechanical ballet, revealing the in-house MVT FM 2031-VS movement—featuring two barrels for a 10-day power reserve—from the front, back, and sides.
Greubel Forsey Balancier 3
Greubel Forsey’s obsessive perfectionism is best expressed by the new Balancier 3, a 22-piece edition that brings a vivid play of blue to the brand’s architectural watchmaking language. Housed in a 41.5mm Convexe titanium case, it is defined by three prominent bridges: the barrel bridge, the balance bridge, and a large central bridge supporting the hours and minutes display.
For this edition, that central bridge receives a mesmerising frosted titanium finish applied by hand with a steel brush across its curved surface, a first for the atelier. At the heart of the 282-component calibre is the in-house variable-inertia balance wheel, measuring 12.60mm and fitted with six gold mean-time screws. Powered by two fast-rotating series-coupled barrels, the timepiece delivers a 72-hour chronometric power reserve.
H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Pump
We’ve had quite a bit of fun using the Streamliner Pump as a generational litmus test around the office: the millennials lit up at the sight of Reebok’s orange Pump button, while the Gen Zs stared back with confusion. Created with Reebok, the watch reimagines the shoe’s iconic sneaker’s pump feature as a winding mechanism. Instead of a regular crown, an anodised aluminium pusher sends energy to the barrel spring—each press delivering more than an hour of power reserve— while simultaneously activating the power reserve indicator.
The 40mm case is crafted from forged quartz fibre, a material that produces a matt moire pattern unique to each watch, and is offered in two colourways: black forged quartz with a black dial, or white forged quartz with a white dial.
IWC Schaffhausen Pilot’s Venturer Vertical Drive
As self-certified nerds of engineering and craft, IWC’s purpose-designed watch for human spaceflight tickled our brains for far longer than we’d like to admit. In place of a conventional crown, a patent-pending rotating bezel system controls all functions of the watch, from winding it to setting the mission or home time—so that astronauts can operate it while wearing pressurised gloves. Meanwhile, a dedicated 24-hour hand tracks the mission’s reference time—an essential feature when orbit turns sunrise and sunset into events that happen roughly every 90 minutes.
The watch also looks straight out of a sci-fi movie, featuring a 44.3mm white zirconium oxide ceramic case with a Ceratanium bezel and caseback built to withstand temperature fluctuations, corrosion, and the stresses of spaceflight. Inside is IWC’s 32722 calibre, an automatic movement with an integrated GMT module and a 120-hour power reserve.
Jacob & Co. Billionaire Double Tourbillon Angel Cut
Created to mark Jacob & Co.’s 40th anniversary, the timepiece introduces a proprietary diamond cut named after founder Jacob Arabo’s wife, Angela, and features 37 facets in tribute to their 37 years of marriage.
Naturally, the watch delivers on spectacle. Its 54mm by 41mm 18k white gold case is set with 98 Angel-cut diamonds and one Rose-cut diamond, while the dial sparkles with a further 88 Angel-cut stones alongside 80 Emerald-cut diamonds. Add 30 Angel-cut diamonds invisibly set into the clasp and the total comes to 297 diamonds across the watch. Serious technical prowess is delivered by way of two flying one-minute tourbillons sitting symmetrically at 12 and 6 o’clock, which brings mechanical balance to the composition.
TAG Heuer Monaco Evergraph
With the Monaco Evergraph, TAG Heuer has taken its signature complication—the chronograph—and rethought it from the inside out. Developed by the TAG Heuer Lab, the new TH80-00 calibre replaces most of the traditional levers and springs used for the chronograph’s start, stop, and reset functions with two flexible bistable components. More than a clever bit of engineering, the system—which required five years of development to achieve—is designed to deliver precise transitions between positions while improving durability.
Inspired by the original 1969 reference 1133, the titanium Monaco has been sharpened and tapered for an ergonomic fit, while a transparent dial reveals the barrel, gear train, TH-Carbonspring balance, and escapement. Offered in titanium with blue accents or black DLC-coated titanium with red accents, and delivering a 70-hour power reserve, the Monaco Evergraph is chock-full of racing spirit and mechanical ingenuity.
Zenith G.F.J Bloodstone
As big fans of the G.F.J. when it debuted in 2025, we were beyond excited by the look of the new G.F.J. Bloodstone. The bloodstone dial, sheathed in shades of green from deep jade to light forest and speckled with rich crimson, commands attention at the centre of a three-part dial construction. Alongside it are a mother-of-pearl small-seconds counter at 6 o’clock and a peripheral guilloche ring evoking the brick facade of Zenith’s Le Locle manufacture.
Housed in a 39.5mm yellow gold case, the G.F.J. rewards intimate inspection. And when you add its movement—a re-engineered version of the Calibre 135, which won five consecutive first prizes at the Neuchâtel Observatory between 1950 and 1954—the limited-to-161 timepiece is a bona fide winner in our eyes.
This story first appeared in the August 2026 issue. Purchase it as a print or digital copy, or consider subscribing to us here
