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Calibre 01 / Hand-wound
A plain, honest movement with a bridge you can read.
Calibre Watchworks / Movements / Neuchatel
Every tooth counted
An independent watchmaker that builds the movement before the case. The one on this page starts as loose parts and falls into time as you scroll.
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Plate 1 / Parts
Six wheels, one balance, a ruby.
Nothing here is bought in. Each wheel is cut, finished and beveled at our own bench, and the jewel is set last, once everything else turns.
Plate 2 / Mesh
Teeth meet, and nothing slips.
A gear train is a promise about ratio. Thirty teeth drive fifteen, and the little wheel turns twice, every time, for the next fifty years.
Plate 3 / Beat
Then it breathes.
The balance wheel swings back and forth twenty-eight thousand eight hundred times an hour. That is the sound you hear when you hold it to your ear.
Time, cut by hand.
-Wheels in train
-Train angle
-Beats per hour
-Assembled
Calibres
Three movements, each one built to be repaired in a hundred years.
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Calibre 02 / Automatic
A rotor in rose gold on a ceramic bearing.
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Calibre 03 / Tourbillon
A rotating cage, built for the person who likes to watch.
Five watchmakers, one bench.
The workshop is a single room above a bakery in Neuchatel. Every movement is signed by the person who finished it, and every service comes back to that person.
H
Henri DelacroixMaster watchmaker
E
Elodie FavreFinishing and engraving
A
Aki TanakaRegulation
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