Vanguart, the ultra-luxe independent watchmaker and creator of some of the most disruptive, inventive watches ever seen in haute horlogerie, returns to its wildly inventive Vanguart Orb at Geneva Watch Week 2026.
For the first time, the explosive design will be injected with flashes of coloured ceramic, creating a pair of crossover watches that are at once works of mechanical art and suitable for daily wear.
The Vanguart Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Vanguart Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold are defined by a unique cocktail of materials, technologies, textures and colourways. In this way, they create a playful paradox. On the one hand, the soft, relaxed colours in the pink and blue ceramics give both watches a versatility and an ease; on the other, the Orb’s theatrical, joyfully unorthodox architecture remains, dazzling with its mechanical ambition and complexity.
The Colour of Time: Brilliant Ceramic opens the Orb up to a New Generation
The Vanguart Orb rocked watchmaking two years ago when it became the world’s first flying tourbillon watch with a function selector that could pivot between manual and automatic modes at the whim of its owner. This provocative function brought fresh intrigue to haute horlogerie, one that explored eternal philosophical questions: how is time shaped? Can it be controlled?
The Orb was an instant hit in watch collecting circles. It shot Vanguart into the limelight and secured its reputation as one of the pioneers of contemporary ultra-luxe watchmaking. Since launch, the watch has been spotted on the wrists of a number of global superstars from the worlds of sport and entertainment, all of whom have chosen to wear Vanguart.
Now, the Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold elevate the design’s challenging form further still. In either shade, the watch becomes a more versatile everyday watch – a daily-wear flying tourbillon. With these additions of coloured ceramic, Vanguart has opened a new chapter for the Orb flying tourbillon, giving it deeper resonance intended to captivate the next generation of aficionados and collectors of esoteric watch art.
The Back Story: Avant-Garde Design and Mechanics in a Beautiful, Ergonomic Watch
The original Orb flying tourbillon of 2024 was conceived and developed over a period of three years as a high-concept, high-complication watch with an ingenious winding selector that put the wearer in control of how it generated power. It had an elegance to it, too: the overall form was a lesson in massing and proportionality, balance and symmetry.
The conceit was that it was also highly ergonomic, sculpted to the wrist. So, while its thrilling movement architecture created a visual vortex, drawing the wearer through multiple physical layers into its dancing flying tourbillon, the 41mm case was a mere 10.5mm thick, a measurement that defied its complexity. Its wearability was further enhanced by its fluid, beautifully engineered curved case back, which followed the topography of the wrist.
The effect was a seminal watch that had mesmerising depth and presence, and yet wore with the day-to-day practicality of an off-the-shelf sports watch. Two years on from the release of the Vanguart Orb, the Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold invite a new audience, one with an appetite for an exclusive wristwatch that fuses extreme watchmaking mechanics with everyday style and sophistication.
The New Challenge: Integrating Ceramic into the Orb
In 2025, Vanguart fulfilled a special commission to create a series of unique pieces for a high-profile private client to incorporate ceramic into the Orb. As well as presenting a tantalising research and development opportunity to interpret watchmaking’s ceramic trend through Vanguart’s unique creative and technical lens, the project posed a number of engineering challenges. Namely, how to integrate coloured ceramic into the Orb’s fluid form without compromising the design’s distinctive character, the watch’s performance (including water resistance to 30 metres) or Vanguart’s hugely exacting quality and finishing standards.
While it can deliver profound colour and depth, ceramic is a complex material. It’s notoriously brittle and inflexible, and so a special formula was required to deliver the dynamics the new Orb watches demanded. Through a year-long research and development process, the company’s engineers delivered a highly resistant ceramic that could be sculpted into sweeping curves that follow the Orb’s unique geometry, and polished by hand to give it a deep brilliance. Bespoke tooling had to be developed for the work, too, to ensure every component in the watch would be produced and finished to Vanguart’s exacting standards. Quality that goes beyond what is visible is one of the brand’s founding pillars.
In the Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold, this ceramic features in the case flanks and in the pusher inserted into the crown. The ceramic delivers tactility as well as the hardness, colour intensity and scratch- and fade-resistance that have made it such a desirable watchmaking material. Vanguart’s blue and pink ceramics will not scratch or fade, even when exposed to the elements for extended periods.
The Orb: Time comes under Control
The basic form and architecture of the new Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold are carried over from the 2024 launch editions. Both have 41mm round cases measuring 10.5mm thick, with top and bottom components in either micro-blasted and satin-finished titanium or micro-blasted and satin-finished 18-carat rose gold. Both iterations of the case also feature hand-polished angles that create much of the form’s depth.
The story of innovation continues inside the case. The curved réhaut and the Orb’s similarly concave signature oscillating mass are colour- and surface-matched to the watch’s polished ceramic elements using a bespoke treatment inspired by the automotive industry and applied with high-precision micro-painting. This process was performed by a specialist in colour optimisation and required months of trials due to the complexity of applying it to functional, three-dimensional shapes. By adopting this approach, Vanguart was able to deliver a ceramic-like visual effect without adversely influencing the watch’s technical performance.
In total, each watch has 395 components. Despite its complexity and the energy required to fuel the watch’s mesmerising flying tourbillon, the movement has a 60-hour power reserve.
The Finishing: Going down a Level to Level Up
Together, the Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold are an exercise in exquisite artisanal hand-finishing, pushing hand-craftsmanship to its limit. One major update is the three-dimensional hand-polished bevelling applied to the sand-blasted central bridge.
The hour track has been enhanced too and now features a highly technical blend of micro-blasted and mirror-polished surfaces, creating an elegant pattern that carries an echo of the Art Deco movement. The lumed hour markers – triangular on the blue model and trapezoid on the pink edition – sit in sharp contrast to this track, delivering on the Orb’s promise of usability by making it immediately legible. This is backed up by satin-polished, lumed and partially skeletonised hour and minute hands that, despite the visual complexity of what lies beneath them, still stand proud, ensuring legibility.
The Straps: Switch on Demand in Confidence
Whether in its overall form or in the tiniest dial detail, the Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold deliver exceptional quality, beauty and ergonomics, ensuring unparalleled wearability. The same principle applies to the Orb’s straps and strap quick-release system.
Developed by Vanguart, the system is activated by an easily accessed but safely concealed pusher on the case back. This way, the strap can be changed at the owner’s discretion, while simultaneously guaranteeing security. The watches are supplied with a rubber strap colour-matched to the ceramic, while owners will be able to personalise their watches with a suite of additional coloured straps.
The Limited Numbers: Retaining Vanguart’s Exclusive Maxim with Special Partners
Reflecting the extreme complexity in the case, movement and material mix found in the new Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold, both models will be limited to just 25 individually numbered pieces with extremely limited distribution. Since the debut of its first timepiece, the Black Hole Tourbillon in 2021, Vanguart’s success has been driven by a close-knit and deeply valued network of suppliers and partners who share its vision of exclusive haute horlogerie.
To honour its role in shaping the Vanguart story and fostering meaningful connections between its founders and discerning collectors of avant-garde haute horology, US retailer Material Good will serve as the exclusive global outlet for the Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium. In recognition of this unique partnership and the close dialogue that informed the watch’s development – each of the 25 pieces will feature a specially engraved ‘MG’ monogram on the case back.
The Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold, which carries a higher retail price due to its increased precious metal content, will also be available through Material Good; through Seddiqi, Vanguart’s exclusive partner in the Middle East; and directly from Vanguart in all other markets.
For more information, please visit www.vanguart.com.