Stories

Manuel Emch, who leads Louis Erard, met the artist Monica Bonvicini at Art Basel and later visited her studio in Berlin, where they became friends.

Czapek’s new steel chronograph borrows its dial’s deep, straight lines from the tread of a sports-car tyre, in a colour the brand calls Victory Green.

Watchmaker Stephen McDonnell designed a flyback into his Sequential chronograph from the first prototype, then held it back until every element was proven.

At La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, every internal angle of the new calibre DR002SR is finished by hand, because no machine can produce it.

The Geneva Time Only sets a grained dial into a cushion-shaped gold case, and gérald genta calls it art on the wrist for daily elegance.

SEVENFRIDAY made the PS2/03 “BC” for the season of celebrations, parties and family gatherings, and tailored it to match a tuxedo.

Independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen made the hand-guilloché salmon mainplate that now sits beneath the transparent sapphire dial of Armin Strom’s Gravity Equal Force.

Czapek hides a Latin phrase under the white enamel of its newest Quai des Bergues, visible only when light catches the dial at a certain angle.

Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens wanted to merge his universe with that of industrial designer Marc Newson, and the TYPE 3 MN is the watch they made together.

The One Week Skeleton Rose Gold is a tribute to the skeletonisation work of Armin Strom, who founded the company in 1967.

For its first rose gold outing, Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens has warmed the crownless TYPE 1° with a rose-gold-plated dial, and chose Dubai Watch Week to show it.

Louis Erard and watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin turn a regulator into the Frog Princess of Slavic myth, suited in samurai armour.