Stories

Three specialist workshops built the dial of Czapek’s newest Antarctique cell by cell, so that daylight passes through blue enamel to the movement beneath.

The Chronoswiss Opus, the skeleton chronograph first made in 1995, turns 30, and the Opus Dakar takes it into the colours of the desert.

Armin Strom builds its foundational calibre without a dial this time, letting a deep blue PVD mainplate stand as the face of the watch.

Vianney Halter, the independent watchmaker behind Le Régulateur’s industrial design, returns with Louis Erard for a second regulator, now in a silver monochrome dial.

In Biel/Bienne, Armin Strom finishes the case of the Tribute 1 Green entirely by hand, and assembles each watch twice: once for precision, and again after decoration.

URWERK co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei set three hour satellites on a flying carousel, then made them change places in a hundredth of a second.

Collectors had long asked MB&F for an EVO version of its smallest Legacy Machine, and the brand’s 20th anniversary gave it a reason to answer.

Czapek’s latest split-seconds chronograph honours Karel Čapek, the Czech novelist whose play R.U.R., first performed in Prague in 1921, introduced the word “robot” to the wider world.

The sandstone of Burgdorf, Armin Strom's home town in the canton of Bern, has long shaped the region's architecture, and now gives the Tribute 1 its colours.

Armin Strom assembles each Mirrored Force Resonance twice, and the newest is the first with a case in 18-karat rose gold.

The Orbit shows its date only when asked: press the pusher at 10 o'clock, and a hand points to today's date on the ceramic bezel.

For the first time, the off-centre dial of Armin Strom's Mirrored Force Resonance carries a sunray guilloché, cut by hand on a rose engine lathe.