This year’s event features 54 exhibiting Maisons showing off their latest timepieces and novelties, including the likes of Rolex, Tudor, Montblanc, Grand Seiko, TAG Heuer, Zenith, and many more.

For years, I told myself I would one day own a Rolex. As a child I was fascinated by my uncle’s stainless steel Datejust, then briefly (and in hindsight, misguidedly) lusted over a blue, gold ...