Closing Soon (within 14 days)
- Jacques Bianchi × Olympique de Marseille — JB200: pre-orders open September 3, 2026 (three-week window closes approximately September 24). Link
- Nodus — Sector II Dive × Holme & Hadfield Edition: early access opens August 27, 2026; general release August 28. Link
Section 1 — Limited & Special Editions
Japanese
Citizen — The CITIZEN, ref. AQ4103-16W
- Edition size: 400 unnumbered pieces worldwide
- Price: $3,325 USD
- Availability: citizenwatch.com, available now; US market confirmed, no other region-lock stated
- What’s new: A new dial execution on Citizen’s flagship “The CITIZEN” platform, inspired by Makura no Soshi (The Pillow Book) by Sei Shōnagon. Brown dial built with an eagle-feather pattern incorporating washi paper and plastic layered under a dual-spherical sapphire crystal. 38.3mm gold-tone Super Titanium case (lightweight, scratch- and rust-resistant) on a brown crocodile strap, 100m water resistance. Eco-Drive Calibre A060 runs on light only and is rated to ±5 seconds per year — chronometer-grade accuracy from a light-powered quartz movement rather than a mechanical escapement, which is the real engineering story behind the literary dial art.
- Source: Citizen official product page
Swiss and Luxury
No new limited editions from Swiss and Luxury brands.
American
No new limited editions from American brands.
Microbrand
No new limited editions from microbrand brands.
Section 2 — New Standard Models
Japanese
Nothing new from Seiko, Citizen, or Casio/G-Shock since last covered (Casio G-Shock GBX-H5600KI-5, August 25). Citizen’s new release today (The CITIZEN AQ4103-16W) is a limited edition — see Section 1.
Swiss and Luxury
Longines — Master Collection Chrono Monopusher, ref. L2.960.4.78.2 / L2.960.4.93.2
- Edition size: Standard production, two dial colorways
- Price: CHF 3,200 / $3,900 USD
- Availability: Longines boutiques and authorized retailers, launched today, August 26, 2026; no stated region lock
- What’s new: A genuinely new complication for the redesigned Master Collection line rather than a recolor: a hand-wound, column-wheel monopusher chronograph (Calibre L799.5, 28,800 vph, 68-hour reserve) operated by a single knurled-crown pusher instead of the usual two-pusher layout. 41mm by 12.60mm steel case, 30m water resistance, silver-opaline or frosted-blue dial with a pulsometer scale and rose-gold or black printed accents. Monopusher chronographs are usually reserved for watchmaking’s upper tier (Patek Philippe, A. Lange & Söhne); Longines building one into a sub-$4,000 line is the more notable move here than the dial-color story elsewhere in this launch.
- Source: Monochrome Watches, WatchTime
Longines — Master Chronograph Moonphase, ref. L2.962.4.73.2 / L2.962.4.73.6
- Edition size: Standard production, strap or bracelet
- Price: CHF 3,500 / $4,250 USD
- Availability: Longines boutiques and authorized retailers, launched today, August 26, 2026; no stated region lock
- What’s new: Consolidates the outgoing 40mm and 42mm case options into a single 41mm by 13.80mm case, a touch slimmer than before. Automatic column-wheel Calibre L687.5 (28,800 vph, 66-hour reserve, silicon hairspring) stacks a 30-minute chronograph counter with an integrated day/month display, a running-seconds/24-hour subdial, and a 12-hour counter carrying the moonphase (dark blue disc, gold moon and stars) — three complications kept legible on a silvery-white barleycorn dial rather than reading as cluttered.
- Source: Monochrome Watches, WatchTime
Longines — Master Collection Time-and-Date, Light Blue Dial (four references)
- Edition size: Standard production, four references (39mm and 41mm, each in leather or steel bracelet)
- Price: €2,500 (39mm) / €2,650 (41mm); USD pricing not published as of this writing, so treat any conversion as approximate
- Availability: Longines boutiques and authorized retailers, launched today, August 26, 2026; no stated region lock
- What’s new: Dial colorway only. Adds a light-blue stamped barleycorn dial with rhodium-plated numerals and leaf hands alongside the silver and navy options from this year’s Master Collection redesign — Longines picking up the pastel-dial trend already showing up across Tudor’s and Cartier’s ranges this year. Case and movement carry over unchanged: automatic Calibre L888.5 (ETA-based, 21 jewels, 72-hour reserve, silicon balance spring), 30m water resistance.
- Source: Monochrome Watches
Nothing new from Rolex, Tudor, Omega, Audemars Piguet, Zenith, Breitling, Panerai, Tissot, Mido, Rado, Hamilton, Swatch, or Nivada Grenchen since last covered (Omega Speedmaster 38mm Collection, August 25). This remains a quiet stretch between Watches & Wonders Geneva (April 2026) and Geneva Watch Days (September 2–6, 2026).
American
Nothing new from Timex, Shinola, Bulova, Weiss, RGM, Autodromo, Oak & Oscar, Vaer, or Luminox since last covered (Timex, August 21; Bulova, August 23). Timex’s mailing list went out again today built around its Expedition Titanium family (automatic 41mm ref. TW2Y90900, already covered here August 21), bundling in a 38mm quartz sibling (TW2W78200), a recycled-fabric-strap colorway of the automatic (TW2V95300), and a Peanuts × Expedition Beagle Scout piece (TW4B29100) that has actually been in Timex’s catalog since 2024 — a remarketing push around existing stock rather than a new reference, the same pattern flagged here on August 25 for the E Line. Separately, Timex teased a “Coming Soon” notify-me page for a 1976 Rotary Phone Dial Reissue (apparently ref. TW2Y82100, 37mm) already sold through some UK/EU retailers; with no confirmed U.S. price or ship date yet, it isn’t written up as a release here.
Microbrand
Nothing new from Duxot, Kuoe Kyoto, Otsuka Lotec, Lorier, Nodus, Traska, Monta, Baltic, Zelos, Studio Underd0g, Brew, Halios, Christopher Ward, Farer, or echo/neutra since last covered (Nodus Sector II Sport stone dials, August 23; Nodus’s Sector II Dive × Holme & Hadfield Edition remains in its pre-launch window — see Closing Soon). Otsuka Lotec’s otsukalotec.base.shop still shows no new 抽選販売 (lottery) window open; its two most recent windows (7.5号 and 6号) closed July 2 and August 2. echo/neutra’s newest colorway, the Averau 42 Ceramic Sand, dates to August 7 and falls outside any reasonable “new” window at this point, so it isn’t written up here.
