WatchDossier Issue 17 - 2026

The burden of precision

Editorial

This issue of WatchDossier turns on a single, uneasy observation: that contemporary watchmaking is less about progress than about belief—and the strain of sustaining it.

Across these six pieces, the watch rarely appears as a solution. It is a proposition, a test, sometimes a burden. The secondary market emerges as an unsentimental auditor, revea…