Stories

Louis Erard has handed its Excellence Petite Seconde to seconde/seconde/, the Parisian master of appropriation, in the middle of Halloween night.

For its 12th anniversary, Laurent Ferrier dresses the Grand Sport Tourbillon, a watch born of its two founders’ shared love of motor racing, in the colours of autumn.

Louis Erard calls aventurine, malachite and lapis lazuli three stones charged with positive energies, and emblematic of its home in the Franches-Montagnes.

Emmanuel Curti, the head watchmaker who founded Geneva's Label Noir, redesigned this regulator around his own order of reading a dial: hour, then minute, then seconds.

Violet sits at the far end of the colours the human eye can see, and for URWERK co-founder Martin Frei that edge is worth a watch of its own.

Casio designer Kikuo Ibe wanted a watch that would not break when dropped, and after about two years of prototypes found his answer in a children’s rubber ball.

When Stephen McDonnell designed the LM Perpetual for MB&F, he found there was nowhere to put the escapement, so he split it in two.

For URWERK co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei, black has been a signature from the start, and the UR-100V now wears it from case to bracelet.

Louis Erard and Massena LAB meet on the regulator, a complication the brand links both to the history of chronometry and to its own.

Raketa’s watches come from a factory in Peterhof that Peter the Great founded in 1721 to cut stone, and that now makes every part of its own movements.

Manuel Emch, CEO and artistic director of Louis Erard, has once again invited Alain Silberstein, and the collaboration they began in 2019 now takes the form of a diptych.

François Czapek, a Polish emigrant, founded his Geneva house in 1845; in 2015 three entrepreneurs, with watch lovers as shareholders, brought the name back.