Stories

In Biel/Bienne, Armin Strom carries 18K rose gold from the case deep into the calibre, and lets three guilloché patterns give the gold its character.

As a restorer, Michel Parmigiani encountered grenage, a hand-graining technique with a seventeenth-century recipe, and he has since taught it to Parmigiani Fleurier’s dial-makers.

Jules Wittock, a Brussels artist who has drawn mazes freehand since childhood, has traced one for the dial of the Ressence TYPE 9, with a word hidden inside.

The SP One began as three circles in a 2018 sketch by MB&F founder Maximilian Büsser, and a year after its debut it returns set with diamonds.

DANIEL ROTH revisits a dial-making technique from the 1940s, in which gold numerals are masked, coated in black and then revealed, on its time-only Extra Plat.

Chronoswiss began in Munich in 1983 with master watchmaker Gerd Rüdiger Lang and now works in Lucerne, and two new stone dials connect those places.

At GT Cadrans, near Lausanne, each slice of Gibeon meteorite is acid-washed and polished by hand to reveal its Widmanstätten lines before any tint is applied.

Louis Erard left the case, bracelet and proportions of its 2340 untouched, and let two new dials change the character of the watch.

Atelier Wen launched Perception in 2022 to prove that Chinese craftsmanship could stand alongside the world’s finest, and its third generation now turns to what is inside.

H. Moser & Cie. set out to prove that a small mechanical watch is not a compromise, and built two Streamliners for slimmer wrists.

Manuel Emch, who leads Louis Erard, met the artist Monica Bonvicini at Art Basel and later visited her studio in Berlin, where they became friends.

The Geneva Time Only sets a grained dial into a cushion-shaped gold case, and gérald genta calls it art on the wrist for daily elegance.