Stories

Only two specialists at GT Cadrans can make the dial of the Promenade Midnight Pearl: blue aventurine glass laid over Tahitian mother-of-pearl, around 0.4mm thick in all.

At GT Cadrans, near Lausanne, only one artisan can brush the varnish that shapes the clouds on the Antarctique S Ice Cloud, working entirely by hand.

Chronoswiss's second reading of the moon is the Space Timer Gravity, built around one of the universe's most powerful forces and a lunar surface lasered from an original NASA photograph.

Maximillion Cooper, Founder & Creative Director of Gumball 3000, has led the rally since 1999, and its partnership with Ulysse Nardin now brings a second watch.

URWERK co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei have turned a wandering hour satellite into a marker that follows sunlight from the Sun to the planets.

Manuel Emch, who leads Louis Erard, met the artist Monica Bonvicini at Art Basel and later visited her studio in Berlin, where they became friends.

Czapek’s new steel chronograph borrows its dial’s deep, straight lines from the tread of a sports-car tyre, in a colour the brand calls Victory Green.

Independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen made the hand-guilloché salmon mainplate that now sits beneath the transparent sapphire dial of Armin Strom’s Gravity Equal Force.

Czapek hides a Latin phrase under the white enamel of its newest Quai des Bergues, visible only when light catches the dial at a certain angle.

Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens wanted to merge his universe with that of industrial designer Marc Newson, and the TYPE 3 MN is the watch they made together.

The One Week Skeleton Rose Gold is a tribute to the skeletonisation work of Armin Strom, who founded the company in 1967.

For its first rose gold outing, Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens has warmed the crownless TYPE 1° with a rose-gold-plated dial, and chose Dubai Watch Week to show it.