The 22 most exceptional luxury watches of 2018 (Part I/III)

Having earlier unveiled commemorative pieces such as the reissue of the original 1993 Royal Oak Offshore and the Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Chronograph, the brand chose to focus on models with new colours and finishes at SIHH A like-it-or-hate-it highlight among the new additions to the Royal Oak Offshore catalogue is the Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Chronograph, with a deep-green ceramic bezel and beige dial, complete with camouflage rubber strap In 1989, Blancpain became the first brand to present a flying tourbillon - a tourbillon without an upper bridge, so it looks like it's freely suspended - in a wristwatch.

At Baselworld 2018, it again presented a flying tourbillon in what is one of our favourite novelties of the year - the Villeret Tourbillon Volant Heure Sautante Minute Retrograde, which comes in a 42mm red gold or platinum case In haute horlogerie, tourbillon-and-time-only watches are not uncommon, and with such timepieces, the tourbillon is typically positioned at a cutout at six o'clock Breguet's Classique Tourbillon Extra-Plat, an ultra-thin tourbillon model, has skewed that formula to winning effect since it was introduced in 2013.

An open-worked version of a timepiece first launched in 2013, the Skeleton Mysterious Double Tourbillon features a flying tourbillon at six o'clock - this entire escapement rotates on its own axis every minute and makes a revolution around the space every five minutes One of the line's latest iterations, the Vanguard Yachting Gravity Skeleton, takes things a step further with nautical-inspired details, such as a turbine-shaped tourbillon cage in blue anodised aluminium. . Source