Stories

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

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.

Louis Erard left the case, bracelet and proportions of its 2340 untouched, and let two new dials change the character of the watch.

Louis Erard spent three years with Worn & Wound shaping a regulator dial of fluted sunray lines and lacquer, and it now joins the brand’s Métiers d’Art collection.

Olivier Mory, a watchmaker based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, developed a tourbillon regulator movement exclusively for Louis Erard, now paired with Alain Silberstein’s signature hands.

On the Smile-Day Blue, designed with Alain Silberstein, a smiley at 6 o’clock shows the mood of the day: black on weekdays, red at the weekend.

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.

Louis Erard and watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin turn a regulator into the Frog Princess of Slavic myth, suited in samurai armour.

Astro Boy shaped the childhood of Manuel Emch, who leads Louis Erard, and he is the first cultural hero to land on the brand’s 2340.

Louis Erard named its first watch with an integrated bracelet 2340, after the postal code of its home in Le Noirmont, and spent two years developing it.

Vianney Halter, the independent watchmaker behind Le Régulateur’s industrial design, returns with Louis Erard for a second regulator, now in a silver monochrome dial.

Engineers Sylvie Villa and Mark Miehlbradt of Wire Art gave old microchip-bonding machines a new purpose: wiring a watch dial in pure gold.