Stories

Chronoswiss found the colour of the Delphis Dune in the desert: an amber Grand Feu enamel over red gold, set in titanium.

Creating the dial of Chronoswiss ’s Delphis Horizon, the brand says, is akin to painting the sky.

For the Delphis Dracula, Chronoswiss drew on the legend of Count Dracula and answered it with a blood-red enamel dial on solid gold.

Alain Silberstein brings his Bauhaus-inspired shapes to the Smile-Day Stahlgrau, the latest watch in his collaboration with Louis Erard, running since 2019.

Armin Strom marks 15 years of its integrated manufacture by revisiting its first-ever calibre, the One Week of 2010, in steel and anthracite.

Making the ivory enamel dial of Louis Erard’s new regulator takes five to seven coats on average, and every firing risks cracks, bubbles or a shift in colour.

When MB&F founder Maximilian Büsser raised a Legacy Machine Perpetual follow-up in 2016, Stephen McDonnell replied in four words: “I have an idea”.

In 1976 a Swiss house showed a mechanical watch read from the side, through a prism; in 2024 three enthusiasts reclaimed its name and patents and started again.

Serge Michel and Claude Greisler hung out in Mr Armin Strom’s workshop as eight-year-olds, then took over the brand that bears his name 15 years ago.

Artist-watchmaker Kari Voutilainen cuts the barley-grain guilloché on the mainplate of Armin Strom’s latest Gravity Equal Force, in a purple the brand says it has never used before.

Geneva watchmaker and jeweller Cédric Johner works without plans, making a few watches a year, and for Louis Erard he hand-decorates the oscillating weight of every movement.

MB&F’s HM8 Mark 2 Blue wears glossy sapphire-blue body panels, coloured with the same mineral metallic pigments as metallic car paint.