Stories

Jacob & Co.’s watchmakers and gem-setters have returned to an idea last tried in the 1820s and 1830s: diamonds set on the balance wheel.

Founder Maximilian Büsser wondered what would happen if a robot’s head were a watch, and product designer Maximilian Maertens spent four years shaping the answer.

H. Moser & Cie. believes complications should be seen as much as heard, so its newest minute repeater moves the hammers and chimes onto the dial itself.

Czapek developed its Cosmic Blue for the first Antarctique Tourbillon, then chose to wait, keeping it to unite three Antarctique models in titanium.

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.

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

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.

Konstantin Chaykin, the independent watchmaker who made Russia's first tourbillons, wanted more complexity for the Time Eater he shares with Louis Erard: specifically, a tourbillon.

Michèle Rothen, Czapek's independent master engraver, hand-engraved the gold rotor of its new flying tourbillon with a pattern that echoes a black hole.

Alain Silberstein had not made a tourbillon watch in over a decade, until his friendship with Manuel Emch, CEO of Louis Erard, brought him back to it.