Stories

Xavier de Roquemaurel, CEO of Czapek, wanted to tell the time without traditional hands, and designer Thomas Funder gave the idea a flying saucer to live in.

Ulysse Nardin calls the Freak S its most complicated time-only watch. Now it gets an enamel dial for the first time, in turquoise blue or deep ruby red.

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.

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.

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.

Benoît Mintiens and Mohammed Abdulmagied Seddiqi went into the desert together to gather the sand that fills this dial, sourced from each of the seven Emirates.

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.

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.