Stories

In 1996, Gérard Baumgartner found a clock that measures the Earth’s travel rather than time, and later gave it to his son Felix, master watchmaker and co-founder of URWERK.

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.

Armin Strom builds its foundational calibre without a dial this time, letting a deep blue PVD mainplate stand as the face of the watch.

SEVENFRIDAY built its new watch around Riley, a little bear who spreads peace, love and happiness, and around one idea: lifting a mood from good to happy.

Mo Coppoletta, art director of Gagà Laboratorio, designed Luce as a tribute to the watch publication Revolution and its founder, Wei Koh.

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.

In Biel/Bienne, Armin Strom finishes the case of the Tribute 1 Green entirely by hand, and assembles each watch twice: once for precision, and again after decoration.

Mark Cho, co-founder of the menswear retailer The Armoury, wanted a Ressence that could live with a suit, and founder Benoît Mintiens refined his ideas into one.

Geneva Watch Days 2025 highlighted just how diverse — and daring — independent watchmaking can be. MB&F celebrated its 20th anniversary with th...

URWERK co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei set three hour satellites on a flying carousel, then made them change places in a hundredth of a second.

Collectors had long asked MB&F for an EVO version of its smallest Legacy Machine, and the brand’s 20th anniversary gave it a reason to answer.

Czapek’s latest split-seconds chronograph honours Karel Čapek, the Czech novelist whose play R.U.R., first performed in Prague in 1921, introduced the word “robot” to the wider world.