Stories

Ruben Tomella founded Gagà Laboratorio in Lugano in late 2024, and two new dials, Azzurro and Champagne, now widen the Labormatic collection he designed with Mo Coppoletta.

Laurent Ferrier marks its 15th anniversary with a tribute to a quieter kind of victory: third place overall at the 1979 Le Mans 24 Hours, driven by the founder himself.

Chronoswiss took the serpent as its model for the ReSec Snake, and its green dial is guilloché by hand in the brand’s Lucerne Atelier.

SEVENFRIDAY built the PG1/01 to be a travel partner: its first watch with a GMT function, reading a second time zone from a 24-hour disc.

When every Goutte d’Eau found a buyer at Watches and Wonders 2024, Czapek CEO Xavier de Roquemaurel began imagining water in other forms: dew, snow, ice.

Claude Greisler, master watchmaker at Armin Strom, has pushed further into a philosophy the brand's founder set decades ago: showing the movement, not hiding it.

Ulysse Nardin builds the Diver [AIR] from recycled titanium, fishing-net fabric and upcycled carbon fibre, calling it the lightest mechanical dive watch it has ever made.

Oliver Ebstein found the Small Second Desert while travelling through Namibia’s dunes, struck by their scale, and built the watch’s textured dial to match.

Chronoswiss took a quarter-repeater movement rooted in founder Gerd-Rüdiger Lang’s vision, restored it from the archive, and gave it a new, fully visible body.

In Biel/Bienne, Armin Strom built its 18th movement around two balance wheels that beat as one, and gave it a second time zone for travel.

Master watchmaker Claude Greisler, who revived Armin Strom in 2009, built a bezel date that stays out of sight until the wearer asks for it.

Michèle Rothen, Czapek's independent master engraver, hand-engraved the gold rotor of its new flying tourbillon with a pattern that echoes a black hole.