Medusa at Twelve: Versace’s Fall Winter 2026 Watches Hold the House Line

A blue guilloché dial, a Medusa at twelve and a 38 by 49 mm steel case lead Versace’s Fall Winter 2026 watches, out while the house waits on its next designer.

Fine horizontal lines run across the blue dial of the Greca Edge Gent, broken only by a small seconds register at six, a date window at three and a compact Medusa stacked above the Versace wordmark at twelve. It is the most graphic of the three watches Versace placed at the top of its Fall Winter 2026 watches campaign, which went live on the house’s stories page in early October with a short film and a shoppable grid split between men’s and women’s pieces. The page lists eleven references across eight models, priced from $1,195 to $1,995 in the United States, and says the line is available now at select boutiques and online.

Signal. What happened: Versace released its Fall Winter 2026 watches campaign and a linked edit of eleven references across eight models, fronted by the Greca Edge Gent, the Dylos and the V-Square Petite. Exact object: the Greca Edge Gent in Silver+Blue, style PVE9Y002-P0026, a 38 by 49 mm stainless steel watch with a blue guilloché dial, small seconds and date on a Swiss quartz movement, priced at $1,450. When and where: available now at select Versace boutiques and on versace.com, according to the campaign page the house published in early October 2026. Source: Versace’s own campaign page and product listings. Why it matters: it is the first Versace watch campaign since Pieter Mulier started as chief creative officer on July 1, and it leans entirely on established house codes (the Medusa, the Greca, the Dylos disk display) while his first runway collection is still months away.

 

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The house keeps its own description brief. The campaign text calls the pieces sculpted in stainless steel and marked with house motifs, and pitches the season as a meeting of “Swiss precision with pure, uncompromising Versace daring.” That steel framing fits the men’s rectangle best. Two of the three lead watches, the Dylos and the V-Square Petite, are shown in ion-plated yellow gold rather than bare steel, so the gold side of the edit is doing as much of the talking as the steel.

A 15-second cut of the campaign film, described in third-party video listings over the weekend, centers on a square steel watch with a blue guilloché dial, a date at three and a subsidiary dial. That combination matches the published specification of the Greca Edge Gent, which makes it the clearest single face of the season.

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On paper the Gent is a 38 by 49 mm rectangle, which is a lot of wrist for a dress watch and plainly intended to be. Versace’s listing for the Greca Edge Gent gives it a stainless steel case and bracelet closing on a butterfly clasp, sapphire crystal, 5 ATM water resistance and a Swiss quartz movement, the RONDA 6004.D, set up for three hands with the small seconds at six and the date at three. A plainer version swaps the blue guilloché for a silver dial at the same $1,450.

The Greca Edge name was not invented this season. A compact 30 mm Greca Edge has already been sold through retailers with an engraved Greca top ring, polished decorative screws and a sunray dial, a smaller and more jewelry-like reading of the same idea. The Gent stretches that square into a tall rectangle and trades sunray for guilloché, which catches light in tight bands rather than one broad sweep and gives the dial a pressed, almost woven surface.

The movement supplier deserves a line of its own. Ronda, the family-owned movement maker founded in 1946 and headquartered in Lausen near Basel, builds quartz calibers for watch brands around the world, and all three lead watches in this edit run on one of its movements. A Swiss movement is one of the conditions behind the Swiss Made marking, which Versace states on every product page in the edit it fronts.

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The Dylos does away with hands. Hours and minutes are printed on rotating disks that show through a black window at twelve o’clock, white numerals doing the job a pair of hands normally would, and the rest of the face belongs to the Medusa. On the gold Dylos in the campaign that Medusa sits as a three-dimensional top ring over a case the product page describes as ion-plated yellow gold paired with fumé crystal finished in Côtes de Genève striping. That striping is a decoration watchmakers traditionally apply to movement bridges, hidden under a caseback, and here it sits on the outside of the watch where anyone can see it.

The case measures 39.5 mm, runs on the RONDA 712.3 disk movement, carries sapphire crystal and is rated to 5 ATM. The gold version costs $1,995 and the silver $1,795, which makes the Dylos the most expensive model in the edit and the only one that crosses the $1,900 mark.

The design has a back catalog. Retailer copy dates the Dylos to 2015, and an earlier, smaller Dylos Icon used the same case shape, sunray engraved cover, centered 3D Medusa and rotating disks, with a Greek key around the top ring and a gourmette chain bracelet. Bringing that format forward this season puts something already recognizable at the center of the women’s offer instead of a brand new silhouette.

The Medusa goes back to the founding. Gianni Versace, a native of Calabria in the ancient Magna Graecia, took the Greek mythological figure as the company’s logo when he started the house in 1978. On most watches it is a signature at twelve o’clock. On the Dylos it is the structure of the whole dial.

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At the other end of the scale, the V-Square Petite in gold measures 18 by 18 mm, small enough to read as a bracelet with a clock set into it. The version fronting the women’s side pairs an ion-plated yellow gold case with a gold-tone sunray dial and the Versace logo at twelve, and nothing else on the face: two hands, no seconds, no date, driven by the RONDA 1032.2. The bracelet does the decorative work, with an openwork Greca running along its side and a jewelry-style buckle.

It is rated to 3 ATM, lower than the 5 ATM on the Gent and the Dylos. At $1,595 it is listed in Gold, Silver+Black and Gold+Green, and the Gold+Green version appears in the campaign grid alongside the all-gold hero.

The Greca, the meander or Greek key border that runs through Versace’s prints, hardware and handbags, does a lot of quiet work across this edit. It frames the top ring of the Greca Edge family, it names the Greca Reaction GMT, and on the V-Square Petite it becomes the bracelet itself. Where the Dylos makes the Medusa structural, the Petite does the same for the Greca.

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Behind the three leads, the grid fills out a price ladder. The Tolomeo Chrono in silver and gold matches the silver Dylos at $1,795, the Greca Reaction GMT in silver and blue sits at $1,650, and the V-Arcadis in gold matches the V-Square Petite at $1,595. The entry point is $1,195, shared by the two-tone V-Libra on the women’s side and the two-tone V-Leo on the men’s side of the grid.

The split between the two sides is exact. The Greca Edge Gent, Tolomeo Chrono, Greca Reaction GMT and V-Leo sit in Versace’s men’s watch section, while the Dylos, V-Square Petite, V-Arcadis and V-Libra sit in the women’s, four models each, with the men’s side carrying the chronograph and the dual-time complication.

Read as a group, the palette is tight: gold, silver, and silver with gold, plus blue on just two men’s pieces (the Greca Edge Gent and the GMT) and green on one V-Square Petite. The spread between the cheapest and most expensive reference is $800, narrow for a fashion house watch line that has to cover chronographs, a GMT, disk displays and an 18 mm jewelry watch.

The way the season is framed has also changed. Earlier watch campaigns on Versace’s stories page named a specific flagship: Fall Winter 2023 introduced two new designs, the Greca Moonphase and the Greca Extreme, and the Fall Winter 2024 campaign was built around the Dominus Skeleton as its new piece. The ceramic DV One, first released in 2005, returned in 2023 with an automatic version. The Fall Winter 2026 campaign text names no single new flagship at all, and lets the grid speak for itself.

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None of these watches is made by Versace in the factory sense. In 2004 the house sold its Swiss watch subsidiary, Versace SA, then based in Lugano, to Timex Group, which renamed the business Vertime SA and took on a licence to make Versace watches, jewelry and writing instruments. Giancarlo di Risio, Versace’s chief executive at the time of the sale, framed it as a way to develop a category the brand had barely tapped, while Timex gained a route into luxury watches. Timex was already a large operation at the time of that sale, with operations in 20 countries and sales in more than 60, and the Versace purchase was presented as its gateway into the luxury end of the market.

The arrangement has outlasted several changes of ownership on the fashion side. The licence was later extended for ten years, in a contract running from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2031, under which Timex Group designs, produces and distributes Versace watches worldwide. Over that same stretch, Versace passed from family hands to an American luxury group in 2018 and then to the Prada Group in 2025, while the watches kept coming out of the same licensing structure.

The separation still shows on the house’s own website. Versace’s footer sends watch shoppers to a dedicated Versace Watches store locator that sits apart from its main boutique finder, a small sign of how distinct the category remains from the clothes, bags and shoes sold under the same Medusa.

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The timing gives this edit more weight than a seasonal accessories release usually carries. The Prada Group completed its purchase of Versace on December 2, 2025, and Dario Vitale left within days, after a single collection for Spring Summer 2026. In February the group named Pieter Mulier as chief creative officer, effective July 1, 2026, and Versace sat out the February Milan shows while it waited for him. His first collection is not expected on a runway until early 2027, the same year the group has said Atelier Versace will return to the Paris couture calendar.

So Fall Winter 2026 has been presented without a designer’s runway collection to anchor it. The main campaign, shot by Steven Meisel with creative direction by Ferdinando Verderi, photographed models on the floor beside archival Versace books and magazine covers from the 1990s and 2000s. The eyewear campaign cast actor Joseph Quinn in a series of portraits by Heikki Kaski as several characters. The watches page credits no photographer and no talent at all, and lets the products and the house codes carry the season.

The contrast with the spring is direct. Versace pitched its Spring Summer 2026 watch campaign as a new chapter for its timepieces that echoed the elegance and sensuality of that season’s ready-to-wear, which was Vitale’s only collection for the house. Fall Winter 2026 has no equivalent runway collection to echo, and the watch copy does not try to borrow one.

That fits the category. A Medusa dial, a Greca bracelet and a disk display are things a licensee can keep producing whatever happens on the runway, and the current Timex agreement for Versace watches runs until the last day of 2031.