Stories

In Biel/Bienne, Armin Strom carries 18K rose gold from the case deep into the calibre, and lets three guilloché patterns give the gold its character.

As a restorer, Michel Parmigiani encountered grenage, a hand-graining technique with a seventeenth-century recipe, and he has since taught it to Parmigiani Fleurier’s dial-makers.

Louis Erard and watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin bring back their frog-faced regulator, and this time let colour change its mood.

Czapek designer Chloé Desbiolles proposed a dial built around the two central motifs of Boris Vian’s 1947 novel: a cocktail-composing piano and a water lily.

Jules Wittock, a Brussels artist who has drawn mazes freehand since childhood, has traced one for the dial of the Ressence TYPE 9, with a word hidden inside.

The SP One began as three circles in a 2018 sketch by MB&F founder Maximilian Büsser, and a year after its debut it returns set with diamonds.

Gerd-Rüdiger Lang introduced the Digiteur without hands in 2005, and its jumping-hour idea now returns dressed in three soft pastels.

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.

DANIEL ROTH revisits a dial-making technique from the 1940s, in which gold numerals are masked, coated in black and then revealed, on its time-only Extra Plat.

Martin Frei, Chief Designer and co-founder of URWERK, designs each watch to change with the angle, the light and the movement of the wrist.

A friendship between Czapek’s CEO and an independent watchmaker gave the Place Vendôme Complicité its double escapement, now dressed in platinum and ice blue.

Czapek returns to the address where François Czapek founded his first Geneva company, opening a new flagship on the Quai des Bergues.