Great news for everyone who backed the X-Series campaign. Our movement supplier, Sellita, has confirmed delivery of the SW200-1 calibres for the first production run. Assembly begins at our partner atelier in La Chaux-de-Fonds next week.
We are on schedule and within the original cost estimate — a fact we don't take for granted given current supply chain conditions. Full cost breakdown and production photos will follow once assembly starts. As always, nothing is hidden — we'll post the complete supplier invoice once signed off.
The movement specification remains unchanged: 26 jewels, 28,800 bph, 38-hour power reserve. The caseback exhibition glass has been approved — you'll be able to see the rotor and barrel bridge without removing the watch from your wrist.
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7 hours ago
NATO vs leather for the X-Series — change my mind
I've been going back and forth on this for weeks. The poll results showed NATO winning at 54% but I genuinely think the design language of the X-Series calls for leather. The dial texture, the applied indices — it's a dress watch pretending to be a sport watch.
Look at the case profile: the thin lugs, the domed crystal, the recessed crown position. These are not the choices of a watch that wants to go swimming. That sunray guilloché dial is screaming for a dark brown vintage leather strap with contrast stitching.
Is the NATO vote driven by practicality, aesthetics, or just forum herd mentality? I'm not trying to start a fight — I genuinely want to understand the reasoning.
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Look at the case profile: the thin lugs, the domed crystal, the recessed crown position. These are not the choices of a watch that wants to go swimming. That sunray guilloché dial is screaming for a dark brown vintage leather strap with contrast stitching.
Is the NATO vote driven by practicality, aesthetics, or just forum herd mentality? I'm not trying to start a fight — I genuinely want to understand the reasoning.
2 days ago
Inside the atelier: skeletonisation workshop visit
We spent two days with Fabrice Gonet in his atelier outside Neuchâtel — the tools, the process, and the patience required to remove 40% of a movement's mass without compromising a single jewel or pivot.
Skeletonisation is one of the most unforgiving disciplines in watchmaking. One slip of a graver and a bridge that took twelve hours to thin becomes scrap. Fabrice works in increments of 0.03mm, checking the geometry after every pass. The silence of the workshop was striking — no music, no radio. Just the graver against brass.
This is part one of a multi-part series on independent Swiss watchmakers. Part two follows next month from a dial-finishing studio in the Vallée de Joux.
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Skeletonisation is one of the most unforgiving disciplines in watchmaking. One slip of a graver and a bridge that took twelve hours to thin becomes scrap. Fabrice works in increments of 0.03mm, checking the geometry after every pass. The silence of the workshop was striking — no music, no radio. Just the graver against brass.
This is part one of a multi-part series on independent Swiss watchmakers. Part two follows next month from a dial-finishing studio in the Vallée de Joux.