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.

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.

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

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.

Portuguese artist Bernardo d’Orey builds each Louis Erard Marqueterie de Paille dial by hand from rye straw, in around 12 hours of work spread over several days.

At Armin Strom, a classic colour goes where the brand has never taken it before: deep blue runs from the movement’s mainplate to the hands, the indexes and the strap.

Czapek’s engineers reversed an entire escapement so that a skeletonised calibre could be read from the front, through a dial made of sapphire rather than metal.

Chronoswiss began in Munich in 1983 with master watchmaker Gerd Rüdiger Lang and now works in Lucerne, and two new stone dials connect those places.