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Chronoswiss took a quarter-repeater movement rooted in founder Gerd-Rüdiger Lang’s vision, restored it from the archive, and gave it a new, fully visible body.

In Biel/Bienne, Armin Strom built its 18th movement around two balance wheels that beat as one, and gave it a second time zone for travel.

Master watchmaker Claude Greisler, who revived Armin Strom in 2009, built a bezel date that stays out of sight until the wearer asks for it.

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.

Designed by Ressence for modern explorers, the TYPE 7 brings the brand its first GMT function and its first integrated titanium bracelet.

URWERK gave its bronze case scales to touch, not just to see, and let Martin Frei describe the metal as something almost alive.

The PULSE One gives Chronoswiss its first integrated bracelet, fused into a newly designed titanium case, and keeps the onion crown that has long marked the brand's watches.

In December 2021, Manuel Emch brought Louis Erard together with Patrik Sjögren’s Swedish workshop GoS, pairing Swiss regulator design with the art of Damascus steel.

The Tonda PF turns 36mm and drops every complication but the hands, in a Stone Blue that Parmigiani Fleurier designed to suit any wrist.

Paris watchmaker Théo Auffret and entrepreneur Guillaume Laidet make SpaceOne watches in the style of the 1960s space age, with complications developed in Auffret’s own workshop.

Michel Parmigiani, founder of Parmigiani Fleurier, built the new Tonda PF Micro-Rotor around the Golden Ratio, the proportion he says guides everything from the case to the dial.

Xavier de Roquemaurel, chief executive of Czapek & Cie, built the Promenade collection on an idea he states plainly: a beautiful watch has no gender.