Blame it on the jackets at The Masters, the omnipresence of Marvel movies featuring The Hulk, or simply a prolonged fondness for St. Patrick’s Day, but it’s time to admit that the color green has become more than just a trend in the watch industry; it’s here to stay. Like its cyan-sibling blue, the emerald hue has evolved from its previous novelty-status and into something that watch brands have realized has greater wrist presence than previously thought.
This year, one of the highlights from Frederique Constant, alongside a line of watches inspired by vintage race cars and a watch that blends horology with technology, is an update to the brand’s Classic Worldtime Manufacture in green.

Frederique Constant’s worldtimer has for a long time been one of the worst-kept secrets in watchmaking. Its legibility and overall ease of use have made it one of the best examples of the brand’s longtime commitment to accessible luxury. Originally released back in 2012, the first worldtimer was a limited edition in white-silver with blue accents. There were two dial configurations available at that time. One with the world map aesthetic you see today and one with a stamped guilloché motif running around the dial and in the center of its middle subdial. This dark green update is symbolic of not only the proliferation of the green style but of how Frederique Constant carefully chooses to build out its lines of timepieces. Since that initial release of...