My Watches Podcast

The AP × Swatch Royal Pop is a fun pocket-watch collaboration between Audemars Piguet and Swatch, featuring a 40 mm Bioceramic case inspired by the iconic Royal Oak with its octagonal bezel and eight visible screws. Released in eight colourful variants across two styles, Lépine and Savonnette; the watches are powered by a reworked hand-wound SISTEM51 movement offering around 90 hours of power reserve.

Each model includes a Petite Tapisserie-style dial, Super-LumiNova hands and markers, sapphire caseback, and modular POP-style accessories that allow it to be worn on a lanyard, clipped to a bag, or displayed as a desk clock. Measuring at 8.4 mm thick with dimensions of about 44.2 mm × 53.2 mm when mounted in the clip (40m out of the mount).

The Baltic × SpaceOne Seconde Majeure is a collaborative jump-hour watch housed in a 38.5 mm with a thickness of 12.5 mm and a lug to lug measurement of 47.5 mm with 50 m water resistance.

Its display uses transparent sapphire discs for the jumping hours at 12 o’clock and trailing minutes at 6 o’clock, paired with a large central seconds hand and a visible jumping-hour mechanism developed by independent watchmaker Théo Auffret which is used on top of the Soprod P024 automatic movement.

The watch is available with either a brushed or hand-finished charbonné maillechort (German silver) dial plate, paired with an Alcantara strap by Delugs. Produced through a short pre-order window (12-17 May) and individually numbered.

The Bulgari Octo Finissimo 37 mm is a compact thin integrated bracelet sports watch featuring a 37 mm case with a thickness of 6.35mm, available in sandblasted or satin-finished titanium and offering 30 m water resistance.

It is powered by the newly developed in-house automatic Calibre BVF 100 with a micro-rotor, measuring just 2.35 mm thick and delivering approximately 72 hours of power reserve.

The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Chronometre Date is a time and date model housed in a 38 mm stainless steel or pink gold case measuring around 8.4mm thick, paired with an integrated bracelet and offering 50 m water resistance.

Powering the watch is the in-house automatic Calibre 899. The movement is both COSC-certified and tested under Jaeger-LeCoultre’s new High Precision Guarantee (HPG), which evaluates the fully assembled watch under real-world conditions such as temperature, shocks, and positional changes.

In this episode 50th episode of Worth The Hype?!, Woody and James are going to give their first impression/thoughts about the highlights of Watches and Wonders 2026.

Unfortunately, not all watches will be covered in this episode and if there are any specific key watches that we have missed out, do let us know!