The most innovative and exciting watches from SIHH 2019

A few themes developed, including advances in material science as well as an anti-Apple Watch, but rather than ask you to trawl through myriad blog pages covering every inch of the show, WIRED has put together a neat edit of the innovative SIHH wristwatches that should be on your radar in 2019.Vacheron Constantin Traditionelle Twin Beat Perpetual Calendar Ressence, whose watches employ an orbital display in which dial elements rotate around each other, was helped out on the tech side by Tony Fadell, famous as "One of the fathers of the iPod" For sheer horological grandeur, nothing at SIHH comes close to the sumptuousness of Jaeger-LeCoultre's new addition to its Hybris Mechanica range of 'grand complication' wonder watches.

The first appeared in 2004, and the Gyro watches have come to symbolise the absolute pinnacle of the brand's craft Panerai Submersible BMG Tech Panerai has been leading the way in pursuing new case materials for its watches recently, and this diving watch brings together two different high-tech substances Such has been the all-encompassing success of its eight-sided Royal Oak and chunkier Royal Oak Offshore lines, that traditional round watches have become more or less a minor sideline for the brand.

Putting a round watch up against the most famously innovative and revolutionary modern watch design of all is no easy task, clearly: Gerald Genta, the Royal Oak's designer, took a couple of days to map it out, whereas Code 11:59 has been in development for six years. . Source