Closing Soon (within 14 days)
- Jacques Bianchi × Olympique de Marseille — JB200: pre-orders open September 3, 2026 (closes approximately September 24, 2026). Link
- Ōtsuka Lōtec — 5号改 lottery sale (抽選販売): registration window September 13, 2026, 17:00 to 23:30 JST only; results announced September 18 at 18:00 JST. ¥825,000 including tax. Requires a Japanese domestic shipping address and a Japanese-issued credit card. Link
Section 1 — Limited & Special Editions
Japanese
No new limited editions from Japanese brands.
Swiss and Luxury
No new limited editions from Swiss and Luxury brands.
American
No new limited editions from American brands.
Microbrand
Fears — Brunswick 39 Perpetual Calendar
- Edition size: Standard (non-numbered) production, plus bespoke platinum versions available to order through Fears’ Custom Division — the brand’s first-ever perpetual calendar and first high complication of any kind since its 2016 revival
- Price: GBP 26,950 (UK, tax included) / CHF 24,500 (export, ex-tax) / USD 28,500 (export, ex-tax)
- Availability: Ordering open now via fearswatches.com and authorized retailers; no region-lock stated beyond the standard UK-domestic-vs-export tax split
- What’s new: A 39mm by 9.4mm steel cushion case (45.4mm lug-to-lug) running a Sellita SW300 base fitted with a Dubois Dépraz perpetual calendar module — date, weekday, month, and leap-year indication plus a black-lacquer moonphase — under a frosted “Silver Mink” dial and a domed sapphire crystal. Perpetual calendars are normally the province of Patek Philippe or A. Lange & Söhne; Fears building one atop an accessible Sellita/Dubois Dépraz base, rather than an in-house movement, is what makes the complication reachable at this price rather than the usual five- or six-figure entry point for the format. Ships with a brown ostrich strap and a SwissKubik winder.
- Source: Monochrome Watches, Fratello
Nodus — Sector II Dive × Holme & Hadfield Edition
- Edition size: 75 pieces worldwide
- Price: $650 USD
- Availability: General release opened August 28, 2026 via noduswatches.com; sold out within roughly two days — now waitlist-only. This is its first full write-up here; it appeared only as a pre-launch “Closing Soon” reminder in prior posts.
- What’s new: Takes the standard Sector II Dive’s 40mm bronze-bezel case (38mm mid-case, 11.9mm thick, 100m water resistance) and swaps in a sapphire-glass dial that suspends its luminous indices and logos in the crystal for a “floating” effect, an aesthetic borrowed directly from the glass-top display cases used by collaborator Holme & Hadfield. TMI NH38 automatic movement underneath, unchanged from the standard model — the collaboration is entirely a dial/display execution, not a mechanical one, which is exactly what sold out a 75-piece run in two days at $650.
- Source: Nodus product page
Ōtsuka Lōtec — 5号改 lottery round opens September 13
- Edition size: Not published. The workshop produced roughly 70 to 80 watches total in 2022 and runs one model per lottery round.
- Price: ¥825,000 including tax, unchanged from the previous 5号改 round.
- Availability: Lottery sale (抽選販売) via the brand’s BASE storefront. Registration is open only from 17:00 to 23:30 JST on September 13, 2026, with results announced September 18 at 18:00 JST. Japan-only: a Japanese domestic shipping address and a Japanese-issued credit card are both required at checkout, and there is no international or English option. The card is authorized before the drawing and refunded to losing entrants. Entries submitted for resale are refused, and multiple entries under one name or address are all rejected rather than deduplicated.
- What’s new: This is the first Ōtsuka Lōtec window announced since the 7.5号 round closed August 2, and it lands on a fresh item listing rather than a reopened one. The 5号改 is the revised regulator-layout 5号, added to the MIH permanent collection in La Chaux-de-Fonds in April 2026 alongside the 6号. Separately, the 8号 listing has come off the shop entirely (its item page now returns a 404) ahead of the previously announced price revision to ¥1,089,000 including tax effective September 1; that notice names only the 8号, and the rest of the line is unchanged.
- Source: BASE shop listing, price revision notice
Section 2 — New Standard Models
Japanese
Nothing new from Seiko, Citizen, or Casio/G-Shock since last covered (Citizen “The CITIZEN” ref. AQ4103-16W limited edition, August 26). Checked Seiko’s and Citizen’s Japanese-language newsrooms and Casio’s G-Shock release calendars directly — a Citizen Attesa “Crystal Octagon” crystalline-titanium limited piece is circulating in Japanese retailer coverage this week, but it released back on July 2, 2026, so it isn’t a new item.
Swiss and Luxury
Nothing new from Rolex, Tudor, Omega, Audemars Piguet, Zenith, Breitling, Panerai, Longines, Tissot, Mido, Rado, Hamilton, Swatch, Nivada Grenchen, or Norqain since last covered (Longines Master Collection redesign, August 26). Still a quiet stretch ahead of Geneva Watch Days (September 2–6, 2026) — no pre-show teasers have dropped from any tracked brand yet.
American
Timex — 1976 Rotary Phone Dial Reissue, ref. TW2Y82100
- Edition size: Standard production (reissue)
- Price: $219 USD
- Availability: Now live for purchase on timex.com (US); flagged here on August 26 as a “Coming Soon” notify-me page already selling through UK/EU retailers but with no confirmed US price or ship date — it has since gone live domestically, so it’s written up today.
- What’s new: 37mm gold-tone stainless steel case with an acrylic crystal, reviving a 1976 archive design where each hour numeral sits in its own polished gold frame against a white ground — a direct visual lift from a rotary telephone’s dial, down to a twin-porthole day/date window standing in for the finger-stops. Brown leather strap sourced from the Leather Working Group, quick-release spring bars, 50m water resistance, quartz movement. A novelty-dial reissue rather than a mechanical story, but a distinctive one for $219.
- Source: Timex product page
Microbrand
Christopher Ward — C60 Trident Biscay (Automatic, GMT, Bronze)
- Edition size: Standard production. Three variants across multiple dial colorways: Automatic (39mm and 42mm), GMT (39mm and 42mm), and Bronze (39mm only). Reference numbers follow Christopher Ward’s configurator format — e.g. C60-39AGM1-S0RK0-B1 for the 39mm GMT on bracelet.
- Price: Automatic £1,330 / €1,740 / $1,870 USD; GMT £1,430 / €1,850 / $1,995 USD on strap, rising to roughly $2,220–$2,275 on the Consort or Bader bracelets; Bronze £1,495 / €1,950 / $2,095 USD
- Availability: Announced August 27, 2026. Pre-order now via christopherward.com, with pre-orders also being taken at Time+Tide Studios in London, New York, and Melbourne. No region-lock stated. This collection was missed in this roundup’s August 27 and 28 posts, both of which incorrectly recorded Christopher Ward as having nothing new — it is written up here dated honestly to its actual announcement date.
- What’s new: Not a colorway refresh but a second, parallel Trident line sitting alongside the Trident Pro 300 and reworking it as a 1960s skin diver. The headline number is thinness: 11mm for the Automatic and Bronze, 12mm for the GMT, while holding 200m water resistance and a screw-down crown — genuinely slim for a 200m diver, and the main reason the 42mm wears closer to its 39mm sibling than the spec sheet suggests. The bezel moves to surface-hardened aluminium (250 HV) with a new, finer tooth profile rather than the ceramic route most divers take at this price; paired with custom off-white Super-LumiNova Grade X1 BL pigmented to mimic aged radium, that reads as a deliberate warmth-and-patina decision rather than a cost saving. The GMT gets two real functional upgrades over the Pro 300 GMT: a bi-directional bezel instead of unidirectional, which makes zone changes quicker, and full lume on the bezel numerals and dots rather than just the 12 o’clock pip. Movements are COSC-certified across the board — Sellita SW300-1 in the Automatic and Bronze, caller-style SW330-2 in the GMT, both 56-hour reserve and held to −4/+6 seconds per day. The Bronze uses CuAl10Ni5Fe4 marine-grade aluminium bronze. Chronometer certification as standard at $1,870 is the aggressive part here: enthusiast coverage has framed the whole launch as Christopher Ward aiming squarely at Tudor’s Black Bay, and on paper it undercuts that benchmark by well over a thousand dollars while matching it on certification.
- Source: Christopher Ward collection page, Time+Tide, Gear Patrol
Formex — Essence 39mm Automatic COSC
- Edition size: Standard production, three dial colorways (Blue, Alpine White, Radiant Bronze)
- Price: $1,850 USD (nylon/leather/rubber strap) / $1,980 USD (steel bracelet)
- Availability: General release now via formexwatch.com; no region-lock stated
- What’s new: Swaps the outgoing signed winding crown for a screw-down crown and replaces the movement with a Sellita SW200-2 Power+ (COSC-certified, 65-hour reserve, up from the prior generation’s shorter reserve). The steel bracelet and strap options move to a butterfly deployant clasp with an on-the-wrist, tool-free 6mm micro-adjustment — both upgrades trickle down from Formex’s 2025 limited-edition Space Ghost rather than being invented for this refresh. 39mm by 10.5mm case, 45.5mm lug-to-lug. Duxot and Kuoe Kyoto had nothing new posted as of this writing; Ōtsuka Lōtec’s September 13 lottery round and Nodus’s full write-up are in Section 1 above.
- Source: Monochrome Watches, aBlogtoWatch
