What to know (and want) in watches this November 2025
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AS WE RUSH TOWARDS the end of the year, new releases all news watches are dropping in our inbox faster than a Zenith DEFY El Primero 21.
We’ve selected the best and most exciting of these to satiate your hunger for wrist candy. Below is your monthly roundup of the best in what’s new, what’s exciting and what’s happening in the watch world.
Chopard marks 30 years with a bang
Chopard is celebrating 30 years of its Fleurier manufacture with a serious display of watchmaking authority: the new L.U.C Grand Strike, its most complex chiming watch to date. It’s one of those watches that instantly tells you you’re looking at the brand at its absolute best.
A grande sonnerie, petite sonnerie and minute repeater rolled into a 43mm white-gold case – but the real magic is the sound: clear, bright and almost impossibly pure thanks to Chopard’s sapphire crystal gongs, a signature more than a decade in the making.
With the open dial, you can actually watch the choreography unfold: the hammers, the racks, the tourbillon quietly spinning at six. It’s the sort of piece that feels both monumental and strangely intimate – like you’re hearing the story of 30 years of Fleurier know-how in one very crisp chime.
Discover it now at chopard.com.
Words Ruby Stephens
Hublot’s Big Bang gets the winter treatment
Hublot is doubling down on winter with two new Big Bang Unico releases – the Winter Sapphire and the Winter Titanium Ceramic – both built around the brand’s signature icy palette. Think glacier blues, crisp whites and frosted detail.
The Sapphire model is the headline act (just 30 pieces and fully transparent), while the Titanium Ceramic edition delivers the lighter, more wearable everyday option with its white ceramic bezel and streamlined 42mm profile.
Flip them over and the winter theme continues: a snowflake-shaped oscillating weight drives the Unico movement, Hublot’s in-house powerhouse packed with serious watchmaking credentials and the kind of engineering detail collectors genuinely care about.
Both watches come with the One-Click system and interchangeable straps – white or ice-blue.
Discover more about the timepiece at hublot.com.
Words Ruby Stephens
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Glen Powell take Omega’s Planet Ocean into its next era
It’s a big, cinematic swing from Omega this season, pairing two of Hollywood’s most bankable leading men – Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Glen Powell – with the brand’s newly evolved Seamaster Planet Ocean. The campaign taps into Omega’s favourite theme: the call of the ocean, a place of ambition, grit, and quiet audacity. Taylor-Johnson fronts the blue model (which he apparently wears off-screen too), while Powell takes on the signature orange – both channelling that limitless, slightly nostalgic dive-watch energy Omega has owned since the ’60s.
The fourth-generation Planet Ocean arrives sharper, more architectural, and more technical, nodding to the brand’s historic dive references without losing the modern edge. It’s a campaign built on atmosphere and attitude: standing on the shoreline, choosing your next move, and wearing a watch that was always designed to go further.
Discover the evolution at omegawatches.com.
Words Ruby Stephens
Take an expedition with the new Tudor Ranger release
Tudor has expanded its Ranger line with a pair of new references that stay close to the model’s expedition roots while refining some of its most functional details. The updates are straightforward: a choice of 36mm or 39mm satin-brushed 316L steel cases, paired with either a grained matt black dial or the newly introduced “Dune white” option. Both follow the clean, highly legible Ranger template, Arabic numerals at the quarters, domed dial, and hands painted with Grade A Swiss Super-LumiNova. It’s an aesthetic that privileges clarity over decoration, and it works.
Mechanically, the watches use Tudor’s Manufacture Calibres MT5400 (36mm) and MT5402 (39mm). These are COSC-certified movements equipped with a non-magnetic silicon balance spring, a traversing bridge for stability, and a 70-hour power reserve that Tudor casually describes as “weekend-proof”. The brand’s own tolerance of −2/+4 seconds per day exceeds the chronometer standard, underscoring the Ranger’s positioning as a practical tool rather than a design exercise.
The cases are fully brushed, a nod to the model’s field-watch heritage, with subtle polishing along the bezel edge to define the profile. Waterproof to 100 metres and fitted with a screw-down crown, the watches offer everyday resilience without unnecessary complication. They can be fitted to a three-link steel bracelet featuring Tudor’s T-fit clasp for quick, tool-free adjustment, or to a single-piece fabric strap woven in France on traditional Jacquard looms.
Words Benjamen Judd
Zenith brings an illustrated icon quietly into the real world
Zenith’s latest release is one for anyone who loves a good origin story – the kind that blends pop culture, craft and a hint of nostalgia. The Chronomaster Revival Daisuke Jigen Edition takes a watch that lived only in the illustrated world of Lupin the 3rd and finally brings it into the real one, giving shape to a design that sat on an animated wrist for decades.
The 37mm matte-black titanium case has that intentional understatement Zenith does so well, paired with a beige dial and black chronograph counters that nod to the anime’s palette without tipping into novelty.
The timepiece will debut exclusively at the Zenith pop-up at ISETAN Shinjuku from November 19, before rolling out globally on November 26 across Zenith boutiques, zenith.com, and select authorised retailers.
Reference: 97.L384.400/04.M384
RRP $17,500 AUD
Words Ruby Stephens
The legend lives on: TAG Heuer x Ayrton Senna race again
Ayrton Senna was an icon. A three-time Formula 1 World Champion, Senna wasn’t just fast; he was fearless — a driver defined by precision, instinct, and an unshakable will to win. More than three decades on, that intensity still fuels TAG Heuer’s ongoing tribute to the Brazilian icon.
The latest Formula 1 Chronograph x Senna collection continues the story with two new watches that do what Senna did best: fuse precision, performance, and purpose. The 44mm automatic model, cased in black titanium with forged carbon detailing, feels built for motion – its yellow accents flicker like headlights cutting through the dark.
Its 43mm quartz counterpart nods to the late-’80s S/EL bracelet Senna made famous. Both sit under TAG Heuer’s Designed to Win philosophy – a mantra lifted from Senna’s own words and an ethos that still drives the brand forward.
These aren’t just watches made in his image; they’re a continuation of what he represented: clarity under pressure, courage in the turn, and a legacy that still pushed forward.
Discover more about the watch at tagheuer.com.
Words Ruby Stephens
Vacheron’s latest has horsepower (literally)
Vacheron Constantin’s Métiers d’Art series has always blurred the line between watchmaking and art, but its latest chapter – The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Horse – takes it to another level.
Think of it as timekeeping meets mythology: a sculpted horse, mid-leap, galloping across a dial of hand-engraved gold and grand feu enamel. Underneath, the Calibre 2460 G4 does its thing – a hands-free display that lets the artistry take centre stage. It’s meticulous, madly beautiful, and limited to just 25 pieces in platinum or pink gold.
Nearly two centuries after Vacheron first entered China, this feels like the perfect full circle – a fusion of cultural reverence, craftsmanship, and that quiet confidence only truevwatchmakers pull off.
Discover more at vacheron-constantin.com.
Words Ruby Stephens
Chopard’s new masterpiece is a celebration worth hearing
Chopard’s L.U.C Full Strike ‘Día de los Muertos’ isn’t your average minute repeater – it’s a love letter to Mexico’s Day of the Dead ‘Día de los Muertos’, wrapped in 18-carat ethical white gold and set with emeralds.
The skull motif on the dial – hand-engraved and enamelled in green Grand Feu – turns a centuries-old tradition into something beautifully modern. Beneath the theatrics sits Chopard’s award-winning Calibre 08.01-L, complete with sapphire gongs that chime like crystal.
It’s dramatic, joyful, and very alive – exactly how a watch inspired by the celebration of life and memory should be.
Discover more about the watch at chopard.com.
Words Ruby Stephens
Gucci’s new collection is a style time warp
Gucci’s signature 25H watch has been given a modern overhaul, blending precision engineering with everyday ease. The new collection refines the architectural silhouette of the original, introducing brushed and polished contrasts, faceted indexes and a sleek interchangeable strap system that lets you switch between rubber and steel in seconds.
Three new 40mm automatic models headline the release, including a GMT version with a black steel case and a vivid yellow hand that tracks multiple time zones. Two others in stainless steel feature black dials, one edged with pink-gold plating, each powered by Swiss-made automatic movements visible through a transparent case back.
For a smaller wrist, Gucci also introduces 30mm and 36mm designs that echo the same geometry in a more delicate profile. Available in silver, pink or black sunray dials, they retain the brand’s signature octagonal case and five-link bracelet, with the option to change to rubber for a more casual look.
It’s a collection that keeps the Gucci 25H’s sculptural identity intact while adding versatility, light play and contemporary flair. Proving once again that the House’s approach to watchmaking is as much about design as it is about time.
Could we be on the verge of seeing a Demna-designed timepiece? Let’s hope so.
Words Benjamen Judd
Swatch and Omega go lunar (again)
If there’s one thing Swatch and Omega have nailed, it’s making moon phases fun again. The Mission to Earthphase – Moonshine Gold celebrates November’s Beaver Moon with a dial that’s part cosmic, part cartoon – complete with a cheeky moon that looks like it’s been nibbled by a beaver.
Crafted from Swatch’s navy Bioceramic and decked out with Omega’s Moonshine™ Gold detailing, it carries all the Speedmaster DNA – asymmetrical case, dot-over-90 tachymeter, and astronaut-approved VELCRO® strap – just with more personality.
Available worldwide from November 5 to 20, it’s proof that space travel doesn’t have to take itself too seriously.
Discover the collection at swatch.com.
Words Ruby Stephens
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