Independent horology, since 1987

Every gear, cut and finished by hand.

Fewer than sixty movements leave our bench each year.

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Steel Rose gold Titanium Platinum
Cased Exploded
38
Years at the bench
1,140
Movements finished
187
Hand-finished parts per caliber
<60
Watches made per year

The movement

What's actually inside the case.

Every caliber we build is designed, cut, and regulated in-house — nothing bought in as an off-the-shelf ébauche.

In-house architecture

The gear train is drawn, cut, and poised by three people — the same three who will service it in thirty years.

We design our own bridge geometry rather than casing a bought movement, which is slower and costs us commercial volume — but it means a Calibre owner can walk into this same room in 2056 and have their watch serviced by someone who understands why every part is shaped the way it is.

Finishing

187

hand-finished parts in a standard three-hand caliber.

Power reserve

42–65 hours

across the current caliber family, depending on complication load.

Decoration

Côtes de Genève, hand-drawn

Every stripe is cut individually on a rose engine — no CNC pattern stamping.

Jewel bearings

Set and burnished by hand

Synthetic ruby, one bearing at a time, checked under the loupe before the bridge goes on.

Regulation

Every movement is timed in six positions over fourteen days before it is ever cased.

The atelier

Three benches, one waitlist.

We have never grown past what three watchmakers can regulate to our own standard — and we're not planning to.

A new apprentice spends their first eighteen months regulating Trente-Six movements before they touch a complication. It is slow, and it is the only way we've found to keep the standard consistent from the first watch we built to the one on the bench today.

Client notes

From the people who wear them.

“Watching the Atelier Squelette assembled through the loupe changed how I think about mechanical objects entirely.”

Private collector, Zürich

“Regate Flyback has run within two seconds a day since delivery. That is not typical at any price.”

Client, endurance motorsport

“The Perpetuelle we commissioned in 2019 has never needed a correction — the calendar work alone justifies the wait.”

Private collector, Geneva

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