Stories

At the Chronoswiss Atelier in Lucerne, tiny stars of gold are cut and set by hand under magnification, then sealed beneath layers of fired blue enamel for the watch’s dial.

Chronoswiss designed its new GMT for people who live between time zones, taking the idea from an earlier watch of its own, the Tora.

Olivier Mory, a watchmaker based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, developed a tourbillon regulator movement exclusively for Louis Erard, now paired with Alain Silberstein’s signature hands.

On the Smile-Day Blue, designed with Alain Silberstein, a smiley at 6 o’clock shows the mood of the day: black on weekdays, red at the weekend.

Dominique Renaud once pushed a balance to 12 Hz; for his new brand’s first watch he goes to the opposite extreme, 1 Hz, the pace of a resting heart.

For the first time in its history, H. Moser & Cie. has worked in ceramic, choosing it for the flowing lines of its Streamliner collection.

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.

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.

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.

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

At sixteen, Maximilian Maertens visited the Rex cinema in Paris and noticed how the building stood apart; the memory shaped MB&F’s newest Horological Machine.

In 2005, founder Gerd-Rüdiger Lang made the Chronoswiss Digiteur, a mechanical watch without hands, and twenty years later it returns in stainless steel.