Stories

Chronoswiss drew the Opus Dakar Sundown from the last golden light over the desert, pairing steel with 18ct red gold and a sand-coloured strap.

At GT Cadrans, near Lausanne, each slice of Gibeon meteorite is acid-washed and polished by hand to reveal its Widmanstätten lines before any tint is applied.

AMIDA co-founder and creative director Matthieu Allègre sees the brand not as a heritage archive but as a way to pick up where AMIDA left off.

URWERK co-founders Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner turned a science-fiction gesture into a complication, and for the last UR-120 they dress it in deep blue and gold.

At the Chronoswiss Atelier Lucerne, the dial of the new Delphis Glacier is guilloché by hand, with textures inspired by glacial ice.

At Donzé Cadrans, only four craftspeople apply the enamel to the rippled dial of Czapek’s Promenade Goutte de Rosée, and each dial takes up to five hours of work.

Louis Erard left the case, bracelet and proportions of its 2340 untouched, and let two new dials change the character of the watch.

Over ten years ago, MB&F and independent Irish watchmaker Stephen McDonnell rethought the perpetual calendar from a blank sheet; now Geneva gem-setters have framed it in colour.

For Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens, a tool watch lives by functionality and legibility, and two new colourways of the TYPE 7 are built on that idea.

Armin Strom’s Dual Time GMT Resonance gives travellers two time zones, each with its own hours, minutes and day/night indicator, and a new edition sets them on aventurine.

Atelier Wen launched Perception in 2022 to prove that Chinese craftsmanship could stand alongside the world’s finest, and its third generation now turns to what is inside.

The UR-10 grew from a Gustave Sandoz clock with three astronomical dials, discovered and restored by Gérard Baumgartner, father of URWERK co-founder Felix Baumgartner.