Stories

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.

Designed by Ressence for modern explorers, the TYPE 7 brings the brand its first GMT function and its first integrated titanium bracelet.

The PULSE One gives Chronoswiss its first integrated bracelet, fused into a newly designed titanium case, and keeps the onion crown that has long marked the brand's watches.

The second watch from Louis Erard and Vianney Halter began, its CEO says, with an accidental phone call.

Benoît Mintiens, the industrial designer who founded Ressence, calls the TYPE 9 the smallest watch the brand can build given the size of its own components.

Louis Erard turns to a 1930s archetype for its first sector-type dial, engraved in black and rose-gilt for the brand’s Noirmont Métiers d’Art line.

La Chaux-de-Fonds is where Louis Erard was born, and its postcode, 2300, now names the brand’s sport chronographs, once called La Sportive.

SEVENFRIDAY's head designer, Arnaud, has counted Raymond Loewy, the designer behind the Lucky Strike pack and the NASA Apollo interior, among his influences since he was young.

Laurent Ferrier's first moon phase sits inside the Classic case that won the brand its first GPHG award, in 2010.

Alain Silberstein had not made a tourbillon watch in over a decade, until his friendship with Manuel Emch, CEO of Louis Erard, brought him back to it.