The pandemic has forced the watch industry to evolve. Not just in the way that retail has had to adapt, but in the way that new watches are launched. A decade ago, every brand rotated in orbit around the gravitational mass of the various watch fairs such as Baselworld and SIHH, but today new watches are released every week. This was a change that was going to happen anyway, however, Coronavirus has turned a medium-term possibility into a present reality. In saying that, you can tell that the watch community still revolves in unison because of one phenomenon – rumours. Rumours about upcoming product launches wouldn’t exist without coordinated, multi-brand release weeks the likes of which we are approaching with Watches & Wonders 2021. We’ve had it confirmed from the brand that the Patek Philippe ref. 5711 has been discontinued and that it will be replaced by something new this year, but speculation on what that looks like is reaching boiling point. It is unconfirmed that Patek Philippe are having two launch events, one of which will be focused around a single watch. Will this be the ref. 6711 Nautilus in titanium? Will it have a green dial (the Aquanaut…
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