The QP team picks out the most significant watches from Baselworld 2017 – as well as personal favourites
By Chris Hall, James Gurney and James Buttery

The dust has settled on another year’s Baselworld, and it’s time to see which watches have made an impression. Between the three of us, we met with more than 75 watch brands and saw, at a conservative estimate, close to 500 new watches. From these we have chosen just three each that we consider to be the most important new releases – and each of us has been allowed just one money-no-object favourite that he would walk away with from the fair. 
Stringent conditions, I think you will agree, but fair ones. It was a stronger Baselworld than perhaps most were expecting, given the pessimistic export figures that prefigured it, with the vast majority of brands and watchmakers rising to meet the challenge of creating commercially viable products that stand out from the competition. Personally, I saw more watches that I could imagine myself buying than in any of the last six years’ exhibitions.  Which is why the criteria we’ve gone for is “most important”. Picking watches you like is easy; the only challenge comes in whittling them down. These nine represent the single watches that we think stand the best chance of making an impact, whether that is on the market as a whole, or on the fates of the brand that produced them. They may exemplify a current trend or signal the s...