WATCHES & Wonders may be the world’s biggest watch fair, but not all big watch brands showed up at the week-long exhibition in Geneva last month. 

Among the no-shows were Omega, Longines and Audemars Piguet. But their absence doesn’t mean they don’t have any new timepieces to show off. 

As the official timekeeper for the Olympic Games – a role it has played since 1932 – Omega has plenty to show, with the world’s biggest sporting event taking place this year. Its sister brand, too: Longines rolled out its 2024 novelties in Bangkok in March.

In the same month, in Milan, Audemars Piguet introduced new watches from its Royal Oak, Code 11.59 and Offshore lines.

Here’s a taste of these novelties.

Omega New Speedmaster Chronoscope

There are about 100 days until the Olympic Games kick off in the French capital, and Omega has begun the countdown with the release of the New Speedmaster Chronoscope.

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The 43 mm watch comes in four versions in gold, black and white – the colours of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

The stainless steel model sports an anodised aluminium bezel while the gold one – crafted in Omega’s 18-ct Moonshine Gold, an exclusive yellow gold alloy – features a ceramic bezel. Both models showcase a striking silvery white opaline dial with three dark grey timing scales – a tachymeter, pulsometer and telemeter – in a 1940s “snail” pattern.

The Speedmaster Chronoscope brings a wide range of measurements to the wrist, a perfect tribute to Omega’s precise and all-round timekeeping role in the Olympics. The striking commemorative case-back is a stamped medallion crafted with a frosted base and features a mirror-polished Paris 2024 logo. Imprinted on it are the words “Paris 2024” and the Olympic rings.

The Speedmaster Chronoscope Paris 2024 is powered by Omega’s Co-Axial Master Chronometer movement, which is certified for superior performance, including strong magnetic resistance, by the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology. Both the steel and gold versions of the watch are available with a perforated black calfskin leather strap.

Prices: S$14,250 (steel), S$74,700 (gold)

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding 34 mm

Any Royal Oak model will attract attention – more so when it also displays a new, vivid pink grande tapisserie dial encased in stunning pink gold with a matching pink gold bracelet. (Tapisserie is a guilloche technique which produces miniature, pyramid-like squares, primarily used to decorate the dial.)

The eye-catching pink face bestows a touch of glamour to the time-and-date timepiece wrapped in the warm hues of the pink gold alloy. Built for smaller wrists, the 34 mm case and bracelet are finished in Audemars Piguet’s trademark alternation of satin-brushing and polished chamfers. As its name hints, the timepiece runs on a self-winding movement, the calibre 5800.

Price: S$80,400

Longines Mini DolceVita  

Small is big in the watch world, and this is not lost on Longines. It has added six new models to its Mini DolceVita line, paired with double tour straps – in black, beige gold, pink, red, orange and green Nappa leather. 

Designed exclusively for Longines, the straps subtly reference the equestrian world that is dear to the brand. The strap has the numbers one to six heat-pressed by the holes, similar to what one would find on a horse’s leather stirrups.

First launched last year, the Mini DolceVita is an extension of the Longines DolceVita family, itself the spinoff of a legendary piece the brand created in 1927. The latest Mini DolceVitas come in a 21.5 by 29 mm stainless steel rectangular case which houses a high-precision quartz movement.

Three versions of the new watch showcase a silver rectangular dial with a standout flinque decoration; two of these are decked with diamonds.The other three models come with a circular silver sand-blasted Cosmo dial.

Prices: S$2,320, S$5,300 (with diamonds)