Stories

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.

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

The sandstone of Burgdorf, Armin Strom's home town in the canton of Bern, has long shaped the region's architecture, and now gives the Tribute 1 its colours.

Ukrainian engraver Maksym Shavlak spends more than 50 hours turning each stainless steel Noirmont case into eighteenth-century Baroque foliage, and no two are alike.

Armin Strom assembles each Mirrored Force Resonance twice, and the newest is the first with a case in 18-karat rose gold.