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The Most WIRED Watches at Watches and Wonders 2026

Forget worldly woes for a few minutes and gawk at these spectacular and mind-bogglingly spendy timepieces we saw in Geneva.

Released on 04/17/2026

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These are our Most Wired Watches of 2026.

Let's kick off with Bremont's Supernova Chronograph,

a watch from the British brand

that will soon be on the surface of the moon.

This angular $8,000 watch

will be strapped to the chassis

of Astrolab's FLIP Rover,

which is due to land on the moon later this year.

Next, we have IWC's Venturer Vertical Drive,

IWC's first watch designed from the ground up

for human space flight

and engineered in partnership with Vast,

the company making the world's first

commercial space station, Haven-1.

Because astronauts can't easily operate

a crown while wearing spacesuit gloves,

here the rotating bezel now handles

all the watch functions, including winding and time setting,

and the dial shows two times, plus a 24-hour scale,

which is essentially in orbit,

where you'll experience 16 sunrises each day.

$440,000 will buy you Patek Philippe's

new Celestial Sunrise and Sunset,

which shows a moving starry night sky,

configured exactly for the northern hemisphere

around the dial.

At any given point,

the portion of the sky framed within the elliptical window

shows the real visible skyscape,

should you look up on a cloudless night,

including the orbit and phases of the moon.

IWC's Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar Ceralume

is a completely luminous watch,

and the effect is astonishing.

Ceralume is IWC's white ceramic,

blended with Super-LumiNova pigment.

The dial and the rubber strap are loaded with the stuff,

so the entire watch charges up in daylight,

then glows a vivid blue

for more than 24 hours in the dark.

Going where no one has gone before

is the Retrovision '64 by Hautlence.

The Swiss high-end brand

has turned Star Trek's iconic communicator

into a full-on luxury wristwatch,

with the characteristic perforated grille

that flips up to reveal the watch's sophisticated workings.

The stellar irony here

is that unlike in the Star Trek universe,

where money is obsolete,

this will retail for an out-of-this-world $165,000,

and only three ardent Trekkies

will be able to get one, though,

as that's all that will be made.

Finally, Hublot went all out with the bling.

A million dollars of it.

The $1,205,000 Big Bang Tourbillon

Impact High Jewelry One Million sports 500 diamonds,

470 on the watch and 30 on the clasp.

The stones are set in a vortex

around the central flying tourbillon,

all set in an 18-karat white gold case.

Amazingly, it's also got water resistance to 30 meters,

so you could even go diving with this,

if you are feeling particularly reckless.