To make a long story short, they're hiring in a major way and making plans for a new building at the company's manufacture in La Chaux-de-Fonds, all in order to meet a higher annual production quota without lowering their industry-leading quality standards.
It pretty quickly monopolized all discussion among the press and collectors that attended the AHCI exhibition that took place in Geneva this year, simultaneously with Watches & Wonders.Įarlier this fall, I was able to sit with Calce for over an hour as he outlined the company's game plan over the next few years. And finally, the newest face here is Sylvain Pinaud, who released his second watch ever this year with the Origine.
I know I wasn't alone in revisiting pictures of this colorful regulator a few times every month. The Raúl Pagès Régulateur à Détente RP1, on the other hand, was released at the very beginning of the year. Rexhep Rexhepi's Chronomètre Contemporain II takes everything that made the original, award-winning Chronomètre Contemporain so special and elevates it even further with a re-engineered movement featuring deadbeat seconds and a handmade case by Jean-Pierre Hagmann.
Young (Time-Only) Guns: A trio of watches from three young independent makers were stuck in my head all year long, each one offering a completely individual and distinctive approach to the simplest ideal in horology: the time-only watch.
