To say that 2020 thus far has not been enterprise as ordinary is to say nothing in any respect. Nonetheless, the watch trade, for all its normal conservativism, stays able to springing surprises on us. To a sure extent, watch manufacturers often must do the surprising in an effort to keep a part of the dialog total amongst shoppers, however on the similar time, determining the best way to keep recent with out straying too removed from one’s core identification stays an ongoing problem. The collapse of the watch commerce exhibits this 12 months has meant that new releases should not solely extra unfold out over the calendar 12 months, it additionally implies that the jury is much from out on what 2020 goes to appear to be within the rear view mirror by way of new releases. Nonetheless, at near the midway level, we expect we have seen sufficient of the brand new stuff (with some very main exceptions, like Rolex and Patek, which have so far not proven any new releases) to make a glance again fascinating. With that in thoughts, listed here are six watches that HODINKEE editors did not see coming.
