Beat Haldimann works from Villa Nussbühl, a 1907 house in Thun, with no CNC machinery and a family watchmaking line he traces back to 1642. He made his name in 2002 with the H1, a flying tourbillon spinning at the centre of the dial. This H11, shown at Baselworld 2013,...

Daniels conceived the co-axial escapement in the mid-1970s and spent more than two decades being turned away by the Swiss. Once Omega agreed to industrialize it (the launch came at Basel in 1999), he designed a 37mm wristwatch of his own to celebrate and planned about a dozen for friends....

This is the 5950R-010, one of low single digit examples that have surfaced in pink on pink, one of fifteen made in totality. It’s a monopusher split seconds, about the most serious chronograph configuration that exists—all in 36.5mm. This calibre 27-525 PS was not just the thinnest split, but the...

This Origine is No. 9, one of the earliest examples of the watch that earned Sylvain Pinaud the Horological Revelation prize at the 2022 GPHG. Pinaud has confirmed it as unique in its configuration, pairing a black dial with a 40mm pink gold case and pink gold movement bridges. Of...

Yosuke Sekiguchi's Primevère has now debuted at auction, but here we have a wild Piece Unique about to follow. This one is highlyg distinct: No. 36, completed in 2026 and catalogued as a pièce unique, the ‘Interprétation du Japon’. The 39.5mm by 12mm steel case and white grand feu enamel...

Well before what we know today, Roger Dubuis produced eight years of deadly serious, nearly-classical Geneva watchmaking. Dubuis spent nine years at Longines and fourteen in Patek Philippe's complications workshop, where the 2499 and 3448 crossed his bench, left in 1980 to restore other people's masterpieces, and founded his brand...