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Independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen made the glacial blue guilloché main plate at the heart of Armin Strom's latest Gravity Equal Force.

Armin Strom completes its Gravity Equal Force collection in 18K rose gold. Kari Voutilainen cuts the grain d’orge guilloché pattern on the mainplate by hand, beneath a sapphire dial that seems to float.

Manuel Emch of Louis Erard recalls that Konstantin Chaykin called with a grin: making watches together was fun, but he wanted to sell a few himself.

Chronoswiss casts the Strike Two Nugget in solid 18ct red gold, crafted by the independent watchmakers of Lucerne as a tribute to the gold rush.

Chronoswiss borrows its cue from the Tora, a watch it built in the 1990s. The Strike Two Stellar Blue takes that spirit into its darkest dial yet, a deep blue cut in radiating straight lines.

Revolution’s 20th anniversary sent founder Wei Koh back to the Czapek watch he had admired since 2023, and this time he helped remake it.

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.

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.

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.

URWERK gave its bronze case scales to touch, not just to see, and let Martin Frei describe the metal as something almost alive.