Two quick snips of the scissors into a piece of leather? Far from it! The process is far more complex and involves up to 100 different operations.In addition to the leather itself, there are synthetic inserts, untearable paper, linings, stitching holes, etc. The various parts are made by classic...

This functional and aesthetic model, also known as a flange, is so slender and fragile that it might have discouraged our gemsetter. He nonetheless brilliantly rose the challenge. The gemset zone is barely one millimetre thick! This is how the bridges and inner bezel look once they are fitted...

Four years of Perpetual Calendar, included pictures of: Vianney Halter Antide Janvier Perpetual Calendar | De Monaco Watch QP | De Bethune DB 15 Perpetual Calendar | Jules Audemars La Russe II QP | Lange & Söhne Datographe Perpetual Calendar | Lange & Söhne pocket watch n°...

Like the bridges, the bezel differs very little from the non-gemset version, except that the chamfers are replaced by diamonds.

Introduced in 2005, the Opus V could be nothing else but dazzling.  First because of the three small cubes each with four numbers, arranged like satellites on a three-dimensional rotating system, displaying the hour as they rotated around two axes; second, because of the crown, concealed...

Much more “restrained” in its form, Opus 4 is remarkable for its virtuosity. Produced in collaboration with Christophe Claret, one of the last masters of repeater watches in Switzerland, it is an entirely reversible tourbillon and minute-repeater.  Opus 4 is a minute-repeater...

Opus 3 was a groundbreaking development.  While its design turned conventions upside down, its mechanism pushed the limit of watchmaking as no watch had ever done before:  a new movement, a new shape, and new functions. Harry Winston presented Opus 3, the third chapter of its unique...

It all began in 2001 with François-Paul Journe, who created Opus One: Eighteen watches for a first in the history of high end watchmaking: never before had two firms worked together to accomplish such an ambitious project. What then attracted François-Paul Journe, a man with a personal...

The inner bezel ring is the most delicate part of the case. It serves to fix the movement to the case middle and also plays a considerable role in the movement aesthetic. The version presented is all more complex in that it has just been set with diamonds.