This year’s showing of animal-inspired dials captures the beautiful creatures that co-inhabit this green sphere we call home.

If anyone can make a watch with a rat on it not look cheesy, it’s these watchmakers.

Watchmakers present their very best at this year’s Only Watch auction, which benefits research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Make every second count with the sculptural beauty of some of our favourite tourbillon timepieces.

Its name is a handful, but the Blancpain Villeret Tourbillon Volant Heure Sautante Minute Retrograde offers elegant simplicity with a twist.

It’s hard to ignore Gherardo Felloni, the moustachioed, opera-trained, antique jewellery-loving Italian who’s behind some of the most playful shoes to have enraptured the street-style set (remember Miu Miu’s pearl-studded furry slides?).

Now entering its 131st year, Lalique has earned a reputation as one of the world’s great crystalware manufacturers, with its mastery of traditional techniques and understanding of light, transparency and colour that result in the creation of precious works of art.

Putting a new spin on vintage-inspired watches, Omega reaches into the past to give us a tangible taste of century-old horology.

With signs of recovery everywhere, following a dismal economic slowdown, brands are – understandably – playing it safe when it comes to launches.

Turn tradition gently on its head with timepieces that skew just a little left of classical.

From horological significance to movement intricacies, the collectors on the following pages tell us about their favourite timepieces beyond the surface.

Lounging around has something to do with it.

The latest and most talked-about collections.

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Why change something when the going is good? The jeweller’s signature bag line, the Serpenti, has become as covetable as its gems because it follows the same fun-meets-glamorous look. Now, it’s doing the same with its sunglasses that match the bags from colour (the latest include metallics and powder pink) to the scalelike enamel clasp (translated into subtle decorative details) to the all-round more youthful update. Wear them together for the new matchy-matchy. Acetate sunglasses with enamel, $405 each – IJ