Parmigiani Fleurier was founded in 1996 by Michel Parmigiani, a watchmaker from the Val-de-Travers trained in La Chaux-de-Fonds whose early career was built on the restoration of historic timepieces for the Sandoz Family Foundation. One of those projects, a carillon pocket watch made by Perrin Frères in the early nineteenth century, forms the direct inspiration for the Carillon Tourbillon Anniversaire, a grande complication limited to five pieces to mark the brand's thirtieth

Omega's relationship with James Bond stretches back to 1995, when Pierce Brosnan first wore a Seamaster in GoldenEye. In the three decades since, the Seamaster Diver 300M has appeared across multiple Bond films and spawned several collector editions tied to the franchise. The newest addition to that lineage arrives from an unexpected direction—not a film set, but a video game.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off across the United States, Canada, and Mexico in just a few weeks, bringing together 48 nations in the tournament's largest edition to date. Switzerland is among them, and Swiss watch brand Norqain, which holds an official watch licensing partnership with the Swiss national football teams, has marked the occasion with a limited edition chronograph that went through an unusually direct design process.