1980

Corum Switzerland

The “Golden Bridge”

A new watchmaking concept with a movement as narrow as a match, suspended in space, without a dial and set in a totally transparent case. The apparent simplicity of its movement gives the Golden Bridge all its beauty: an iconic watch even more than 45 years later, and one of Corum’s best-selling timepieces.

At the time, the Golden Bridge was the world’s thinnest watch with an on-line movement mounted on a single bridge. This is the basis of my Spatial Collection, which can be adapted to any figure or shape: this mechanism, invented in 1977, was awarded the gold medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions that same year.

1985

Blancpain, Paudex, CH
 

Marketed only in 1991: The Flying Tourbillon

To improve on Louis-Abraham Breguet’s invention, here is the invention of a Flying Tourbillon with the escapement off-center in the cage, which will make watchmaking purists howl as they describe this Tourbillon as a Carrousel. The future will prove them wrong (see Carrousel below).

The thinnest mechanism (3.2 mm) ever made, allowing additional mechanisms to be added. Made of an anti-magnetic metal (18-carat gold). With an 8-day power reserve.

1990

Pinko, Italian fashion brand

The Baladin

Pinko, the Baladin’s “big sister”, will later join the “Ludique” collection. A wandering - jumping hour!

Special and unique handless display of hours and minutes in a streamlined dial, combining digital and numeric displays.

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1991

Minerva, Villeret, CH

The Palladio

A tribute to the famous Italian Renaissance architect!

Chronograph with date and two time zone. The hour hand moves by one hour without affecting the minute hand (a very useful function when switching from summer to winter time, for example).

1991

Maurice Lacroix, Saignelégier, CH

Maurice Lacroix

Limited edition watch.

Window at 12 o’clock for a second time zone. Date indication. Window with alternating day in yellow and night in blue. With seconds hand.

1992

Sarcar Watches, Geneva, CH

The Sarcar

Presented in a hexagonal case with enameled dial.

Power reserve in a fan-shaped aperture at 6 o’clock and day date in a fan-shaped aperture at 12 o’clock.
 

1994

Watch Executive Company - Italy

The Executive

Watch designed exclusively for the agent’s clientele. PRIVATE is engraved on the bezel at 12 o’clock and the watch number at 6 o’clock. Turning the bezel reveals the owner’s name at 09 o’clock and first name at 3 o’clock. Limited to 100 pieces.

Executive Company name at 12 o’clock on the dial. “Automatic” indication at 6 o’clock. Power reserve at 8 o’clock. Date window at 4 o’clock.

1994

Universal Geneva

The Janus

Janus is the Roman god of beginnings and ends, of the future and the past, hence its two faces, just like this watch in a square case, with two faces, each with its own dial and displays. Equipped with a device that allows these two faces to be rotated. Limited to 150 pieces.

Two dials, hence two time zones. One with conventional indication of hours and minutes, the seconds, off-center, with minutes only, jumping hour at 12 o’clock, date at 6 o’clock and day/night at 8 o’clock.

1999

Ikepod Watch Company, Bassecourt, CH

The Megapod Pilot

Created at the request of an American aviator with a passion for watchmaking and a love of Ikepod watches, and in search of the perfect airplane pilot’s watch.

With central hands, continuous seconds, 30-minute subdial, 24-hour subdial and 12-hour subdial at 2, 6, 9 and 12 o’clock respectively. Date display at 6 o’clock. On the circumference of the dial, ASA E6-B flight computer with regulating calendar, controlled by crown at 3 o’clock.
 

2000

Pamp. Ticino, CH
today known as MKS PAMP SA

The Pamp
 

Jumping hour watch.

Double window watch with jumping hours and minute disc.

2001

Bell & Ross, Paris, F

The Vintage 123 Jumping Hour Platinum

Watch with apertures for jumping hours and power reserve. 3 dial versions, yellow, grey, or ivory. Limited series of 99.

With jumping hour aperture at 12 o’clock. To indicate the minutes, around the dial, a large hand in the center or a small hand in a subdial. With 40-hour power reserve at 6 o’clock.

2001

GoldPfeil, Offenbach, Germany

The GoldPfeil

One of 7 timepieces commissioned by the brand from 7 AHCI members, Vincent Calabrese’s GoldPfeil has no dial, only a case with apertures and a central disc. At GoldPfeil’s request, Vincent Calabrese also created a unique timepiece, which would inspire him in the creation of the Sun-Tral.

With jumping hour windows at 12 o’clock and date window at 6 o’clock. With central minute disc and hand in the shape of the GoldPfeil logo: an arrow.

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2007

Blancpain, Paudex, CH

The One-Minute Carrousel

The Carrousel is a mechanism that has long been discriminated against by Tourbillon purists, citing the inability to make it work regularly in one minute.

After overcoming gravity-related problems and improving past mechanical constructions, the Carrousel has largely earned its spurs as a reliable mechanism that performs far better than the Tourbillon.

2014

Maison l’Epée, Délémont, CH

The Two Hands

To celebrate the brand’s 175th anniversary, a tourbillon takes its place in the middle of this work of art. It becomes a flying tourbillon, standing proudly in the middle of the turbine’s shape, crafted in a round, enameled timepiece!

With a one-minute flying tourbillon, in addition to the minute hand which itself makes one revolution in 1 hour.