Faithful to its annual rendezvous, Blancpain once again presents an exclusive creation for Valentine’s Day, the Saint-Valentin Chronograph 2012 .

This limited series of 14 watches, each set with 2.95 carats of precious stones, offers a fresh take on the refined aesthetics of the Blancpain Women collection.

With its diamond-set bezel and lugs, caseband set with four diamonds and a heart-shaped ruby, crown adorned with a diamond and pushpieces covered with cabochon-cut rubies, the white gold case sparkles with dazzling splendour.

The Montblanc Vintage Tachydate is part of the Collection Villeret 1858 collection.

This elegant new timepiece is the first chronograph+date display in the collection and features a new in-house caliber developed specifically for the watch.

The double-ring tachy scale is elegantly laid-out on the dial and the date on this Montblanc is shown via a small sub-dial at 6 o’clock.

For IWC, 2012 will be all about its “Pilot’s watch” collection, following 2011 being the year of the Portofino.

Here is the new IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph “Top Gun Miramar” edition, one of five new Pilot’s watches we can expect to see from IWC for 2012.

The IWC Top Gun Miramar watch is a tribute to the place in California where the myth of the elite pilot (the “Top Gun”) was born.

For 2012, Ralph Lauren presents two new interpretations in its Slim Classique collection, featuring the luxuriously embellished cases.

The first model places a single row of brilliant-cut diamonds on the bezel, set off by a glossy black frame that emphasizes the rectilinear form of the watch.

On the second watch, two rows of diamonds make the bezel sparkle. Diamonds have also been set into the lugs, and a single rosecut diamond adorns the crown.

Hublot is launching the first ever timepiece that has a scratch-resistant gold case. Called the Hublot Magic Gold, the watches will be presented at BaselWorld 2012.

Hublot gold has a hardness rating of almost 1000 Vickers (most hardened steels are up to 600 Vickers).

This makes Hublot the hardest in the world, and by some margin it can only really be “scratched” by a diamond.

The flagship watch for the Cartier Fine Watchmaking collection at SIHH 2012 is the magnificent Rotonde de Cartier Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon watch.