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.

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.

Jacob & Co.’s watchmakers and gem-setters have returned to an idea last tried in the 1820s and 1830s: diamonds set on the balance wheel.

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.

Founder Maximilian Büsser wondered what would happen if a robot’s head were a watch, and product designer Maximilian Maertens spent four years shaping the answer.

Armin Strom’s new minute repeater lets the wearer choose: chime the time shown, or play its longest sequence, 12 hours, three quarters and fourteen minutes, at any moment.

Laurent Ferrier built the Sport Traveller for people who cross time zones: two pushers move the local hour forward or back without stopping the watch.

In the late 1980s, Reebok’s Pump sneaker turned a simple press into a cult gesture; H. Moser & Cie. now uses that same orange button to wind a watch.

H. Moser & Cie. has stripped its perpetual calendar back to raw metal: a tantalum case, and a dial machined from the same metal with no lacquer at all.

H. Moser & Cie. set out to prove that a small mechanical watch is not a compromise, and built two Streamliners for slimmer wrists.

H. Moser & Cie. believes complications should be seen as much as heard, so its newest minute repeater moves the hammers and chimes onto the dial itself.

Benoît Mintiens, founder and creative leader of Ressence, describes the TYPE 11 as a watch of the present: contemporary, but not futuristic.