The Simplicity is Philippe Dufour’s third and final model: hand-wound, time-only, introduced in 2000 at 34mm, its movement redesigned rather than spaced out for the 37mm case that followed. Dufour made roughly 15 a year; 205 originals. This is number 60, in 37mm white gold with a hand-guilloché dial, petite...

The Tourbillon à Paris is Théo Auffret’s first watch: a hand-wound regulator tourbillon in a 38.5mm case, offered in platinum, gold, silver, titanium or steel. Hours sit off-centre, minutes central, and the open dial puts the barrel at 12 and a 14mm tourbillon at lower left under broad finger bridges....

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...