Revolution (USA) - Issue 82

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The final issue of Revolution USA this year is shaped by a single noticeable shift: a return to real watchmaking. After a period dominated by hype pieces and cosmetic dial changes, 2025 has delivered a handful of creations that restore the focus to master craftsmanship and boundary shifting innovation, and this issue gathers some of the most recent.

 

Our cover story belongs to Parmigiani Fleurier, where CEO Guido Terreni reflects on the deceptive simplicity of the Toric Quantième Perpétuel. Terreni speaks about the discipline required to achieve genuine clarity, and why refinement often demands more from a manufacture than spectacle. The cover features the radiant “Golden Hour” execution, a composition of warmth and understatement that distils the maison’s modern identity.

 

Elsewhere, we look at some of the year’s most impactful mechanical statements. Audemars Piguet’s RD#5 pushes ultra-thin construction into unfamiliar territory; A. Lange & Söhne’s new Saxonia Thin proves minimalism still has the power to surprise; Chopard’s L.U.C Grand Strike reasserts the rarity and difficulty of high acoustic watchmaking; and Vacheron Constantin’s La Quête du Temps automaton stands as a monumental fusion of horology and cultural expression seen worthy of a place in Paris’s Louvre Museum.

 

We also revisit October’s emergent New York Watch Week — unofficial in name but now firmly established as one of the most energising community and industry moments on the calendar. What began as a loosely aligned set of events has become a genuine hub of contemporary watch culture.

 

And, to close the issue and the year, Revolution’s editors and staff writers present their selections for our “Fantasy Horology League”: the one new release from 2025 they hope to find beneath the tree, the one vintage piece they still dream about, and the one wild-card choice that reveals something about who they are as collectors and enthusiasts.