Stories

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.

Guido Terreni, CEO of Parmigiani Fleurier, holds that a chronograph is only as good as the architecture of the movement that drives it.

At La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, Master Watchmakers Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini oversee the calibre DR002, built to Mr. Roth’s principle of clarity and proportion.

Louis Erard spent three years with Worn & Wound shaping a regulator dial of fluted sunray lines and lacquer, and it now joins the brand’s Métiers d’Art collection.

Armin Strom’s new minute repeater lets the wearer choose: chime the time shown, or play its longest sequence, 12 hours, three quarters and fourteen minutes, at any moment.

Laurent Ferrier built the Sport Traveller for people who cross time zones: two pushers move the local hour forward or back without stopping the watch.