Superlative watchmaking

GENUS DRAGON
Back in 2019, Genus won the GPHG Mechanical Exception award with its kinetic timekeeping method showing the minutes as a train of mobile parts circulating on a track in the form of an analemma – a figure of eight, the symbol of infinity. The Genus Dragon has transfigured this mobile display into a sculpted, golden dragon, the body of which is made up of eleven articulated, mobile segments indicating the minutes. The body of this fabulous animal slithers and snakes beneath the crystal dome covering the dial.

GENUS DRAGON
Back in 2019, Genus won the GPHG Mechanical Exception award with its kinetic timekeeping method showing the minutes as a train of mobile parts circulating on a track in the form of an analemma – a figure of eight, the symbol of infinity. The Genus Dragon has transfigured this mobile display into a sculpted, golden dragon, the body of which is made up of eleven articulated, mobile segments indicating the minutes. The body of this fabulous animal slithers and snakes beneath the crystal dome covering the dial.

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REVERSO QUADRIPTYQUE HYBRIS MECHANICA CALIBRE 185
This is the most complicated Reverso ever made and the world’s first wristwatch with four display faces. A line-up of 11 complications, including a perpetual calendar and a minute repeater, the astronomical indications of the synodic, draconic and anomalistic cycles. A historic achievement.

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REVERSO QUADRIPTYQUE HYBRIS MECHANICA CALIBRE 185
This is the most complicated Reverso ever made and the world’s first wristwatch with four display faces. A line-up of 11 complications, including a perpetual calendar and a minute repeater, the astronomical indications of the synodic, draconic and anomalistic cycles. A historic achievement.

MB&F LMX (left)
The success of the original LM1 was such that it was produced in a series of world firsts numbering eight – leading up to the present, ten years on, with the issue of this disrespectfully classically styled and harmoniously futuristic LMX.

H. MOSER & CIE ENDEAVOUR CONCEPT MINUTE REPEATER TOURBILLON (right)
“Offbeat Haute Horlogerie for the initiated”, is how H. Moser & Cie describes its latest creation, one of the most historic complications known to watchmaking: a minute repeater – combined with a flying tourbillon beneath a skeletonised bridge.

MB&F LMX (left)
The success of the original LM1 was such that it was produced in a series of world firsts numbering eight – leading up to the present, ten years on, with the issue of this disrespectfully classically styled and harmoniously futuristic LMX.

H. MOSER & CIE ENDEAVOUR CONCEPT MINUTE REPEATER TOURBILLON (right)
“Offbeat Haute Horlogerie for the initiated”, is how H. Moser & Cie describes its latest creation, one of the most historic complications known to watchmaking: a minute repeater – combined with a flying tourbillon beneath a skeletonised bridge.

VIANNEY HALTER DEEP SPACE RESONANCE
The idea of building an acoustically resonant twin balance occurred to the watchmaker back in 1996 while playing and tuning a piano. From then on, it slowly matured via the detailed study of Breguet’s work, the first concrete ideas and the design of a demonstrator using two Russian deck watches. In early 2019, the two balance wheels of his demonstrator functioned steadily in acoustic resonance and were ready to be transposed into a wristwatch. He built his prototype in 2020. And today he is sharing it.

VIANNEY HALTER DEEP SPACE RESONANCE
The idea of building an acoustically resonant twin balance occurred to the watchmaker back in 1996 while playing and tuning a piano. From then on, it slowly matured via the detailed study of Breguet’s work, the first concrete ideas and the design of a demonstrator using two Russian deck watches. In early 2019, the two balance wheels of his demonstrator functioned steadily in acoustic resonance and were ready to be transposed into a wristwatch. He built his prototype in 2020. And today he is sharing it.

ROTONDE DE CARTIER PRECIOUS ICONS SET (left)
Inside an exquisite wooden marquetry box lie three Rotonde de Cartier timepieces portraying the tourbillon in mysterious transparency, as the centrepiece of a skeletonised architecture, and then in a dual configuration, both skeletonised and mysterious.

PURNELL ESCAPE II ABSOLUTE SAPPHIRE (right)
Purnell, whose motto is “Only Tourbillon”, presents a twin triple-axis tourbillon – called the Sphérion – the bridges, hour wheel, power reserve, dial and case of which are made of transparent sapphire.

ROTONDE DE CARTIER PRECIOUS ICONS SET (left)
Inside an exquisite wooden marquetry box lie three Rotonde de Cartier timepieces portraying the tourbillon in mysterious transparency, as the centrepiece of a skeletonised architecture, and then in a dual configuration, both skeletonised and mysterious.

PURNELL ESCAPE II ABSOLUTE SAPPHIRE (right)
Purnell, whose motto is “Only Tourbillon”, presents a twin triple-axis tourbillon – called the Sphérion – the bridges, hour wheel, power reserve, dial and case of which are made of transparent sapphire.

GREUBEL FORSEY GMT QUADRUPLE TOURBILLON (left)
The latest edition (11 pieces) of the GMT Quadruple Tourbillon offers a new material – titanium – new colours and new finishes, announcing Greubel Forsey’s change of direction towards a more marked modernity.

LOUIS MOINET MEMORIS SUPERLIGHT MIDNIGHT BLUE (right)
The Memoris Superlight, such as the first chronograph watch, places the chronograph device at the forefront, right on the dial, above the LM79 automatic mechanism.

GREUBEL FORSEY GMT QUADRUPLE TOURBILLON (left)
The latest edition (11 pieces) of the GMT Quadruple Tourbillon offers a new material – titanium – new colours and new finishes, announcing Greubel Forsey’s change of direction towards a more marked modernity.

LOUIS MOINET MEMORIS SUPERLIGHT MIDNIGHT BLUE (right)
The Memoris Superlight, such as the first chronograph watch, places the chronograph device at the forefront, right on the dial, above the LM79 automatic mechanism.

JAQUET DROZ GRANDE SECONDE SKELET-ONE LIMITED EDITION (left)
Sober, architectural, multi-dimensional, the highly contemporary Grande Seconde Skelet-One is back in three iterations (of 28 pieces each), which clearly display their true, elegant colours of green, sky blue or yellow, as featured on the hand-stitched turned-edge strap, hands and minutes track.

PIAGET POLO SKELETON (right)
With the Polo Skeleton, skeletonisation and ultra-thinness are combined in the curved case of the Polo sports watch – a case that required a 30 per cent reduction in height and a specially adapted, self-winding 1200S skeleton movement, powered by an off-centre micro-rotor.

JAQUET DROZ GRANDE SECONDE SKELET-ONE LIMITED EDITION (left)
Sober, architectural, multi-dimensional, the highly contemporary Grande Seconde Skelet-One is back in three iterations (of 28 pieces each), which clearly display their true, elegant colours of green, sky blue or yellow, as featured on the hand-stitched turned-edge strap, hands and minutes track.

PIAGET POLO SKELETON (right)
With the Polo Skeleton, skeletonisation and ultra-thinness are combined in the curved case of the Polo sports watch – a case that required a 30 per cent reduction in height and a specially adapted, self-winding 1200S skeleton movement, powered by an off-centre micro-rotor.

FERDINAND BERTHOUD RÉGULATEUR SQUELETTE FB RS (left)
This skeletonised tourbillon movement with chain-and-fusée transmission, will be strictly limited to 20 pieces. A large sapphire disc shows the hours through an aperture at 2 o’clock, while the minutes are read from the dial at 12 o’clock and the seconds from a central hand in rhodium-plated bronze.

CHRONOSWISS OPEN GEAR RESEC PARAIBA (right)
Chronoswiss can pride itself on being the only brand to offer a hand-guilloché model whose colours vary according to the angle at which the watch is viewed, from tropical turquoise-blue to deepest jungle green and from petrol to indigo, evocative of Paraiba tourmaline. A fascinating result.

FERDINAND BERTHOUD RÉGULATEUR SQUELETTE FB RS (left)
This skeletonised tourbillon movement with chain-and-fusée transmission, will be strictly limited to 20 pieces. A large sapphire disc shows the hours through an aperture at 2 o’clock, while the minutes are read from the dial at 12 o’clock and the seconds from a central hand in rhodium-plated bronze.

CHRONOSWISS OPEN GEAR RESEC PARAIBA (right)
Chronoswiss can pride itself on being the only brand to offer a hand-guilloché model whose colours vary according to the angle at which the watch is viewed, from tropical turquoise-blue to deepest jungle green and from petrol to indigo, evocative of Paraiba tourmaline. A fascinating result.

ULYSSE NARDIN UFO (left)
For its 175th anniversary, the brand is reinventing its heritage in marine chronometers by presenting a table clock with an ovoid glass cloche, a futuristic dream whose 633 components weigh a total of 7.2 kilos.

ARNOLD & SON LUNA MAGNA (right)
In a red gold case, on a starry dial, Arnold & Son introduces its first three-dimensional moon, made of marble and aventurine. The moon, with its diameter of 12 mm, is the largest ever integrated into a wristwatch.

ULYSSE NARDIN UFO (left)
For its 175th anniversary, the brand is reinventing its heritage in marine chronometers by presenting a table clock with an ovoid glass cloche, a futuristic dream whose 633 components weigh a total of 7.2 kilos.

ARNOLD & SON LUNA MAGNA (right)
In a red gold case, on a starry dial, Arnold & Son introduces its first three-dimensional moon, made of marble and aventurine. The moon, with its diameter of 12 mm, is the largest ever integrated into a wristwatch.

BULGARI OCTO FINISSIMO TADAO ANDO (left)
How does one construct and interpret time in the most refined way possible? That is the concept behind this new collaboration between Japanese architect Tadao Ando and Bulgari.

CHOPARD L.U.C QUATTRO SPIRIT 25 (right)
Chopard has produced its first jumping-hour timepiece to mark the 25th anniversary of the Manufacture, delivering a very pure interpretation of this complication.

BULGARI OCTO FINISSIMO TADAO ANDO (left)
How does one construct and interpret time in the most refined way possible? That is the concept behind this new collaboration between Japanese architect Tadao Ando and Bulgari.

CHOPARD L.U.C QUATTRO SPIRIT 25 (right)
Chopard has produced its first jumping-hour timepiece to mark the 25th anniversary of the Manufacture, delivering a very pure interpretation of this complication.