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Although the importance of the high-ticket timepiece as a fashion accessory has been increasing of late, with fashion leaders such as David Beckham and P Diddy acquiring a wardrobe of watches, there comes a time when polychromatic aesthetics and exotic, exaggerated case design are no longer enough. There comes a time when technical virtuosity, true innovation and rarity (as opposed to mere expense) take over as the motivating factors behind serious watch purchases.
It is timepieces exhibiting such characteristics that enable the watch buyer to make contact with the true horological masters of today, people with true vision and passion, articulated through the objects that they make.
This rarefied level of watch making, where watch prices can easily stray into six figures, is one of the most interesting arenas of true luxury remaining today.
Collectors will spend around quarter of a million pounds to lay their hands on such sought after pieces as Parmigiani’s tourbillon and Westminster chime with a second time zone, only one of which is made every year with a different engraving on the dial and case each year.
Such is the status of Patek Philippe’s complex pieces like the Sky Moon Tourbillon, it is the brand’s CEO Philippe Stern who makes the decision as to who should be offered the opportunity to buy the watch.
Indeed the two names mentioned above are eloquent testimony to the two separate poles of haute horlogerie – on one side there are the grand old houses of watchmaking; names that ring down the centuries: Vacheron Constantin, which celebrates its 250th anniversary next year, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet. These houses have found it necessary to adapt to contemporary market requirements by making timepieces that appeal to modern tastes. Vacheron Constantin has its Royal Eagle line of watches, with their handsome tonneau cases; Patek Philippe has the sporty Aquanaut, based on its classic ’70s sports watch the Nautilus; while if you are a Eurotrash playboy you will already have a monster-sized Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore weighing down one or other of your wrists. But for dedicated collectors and the really rich, only the complicated pieces such as perpetual calendars, tourbillons and minute repeaters will slake the thirst for technical excellence.
At the other end of high watchmaking are what one might call the one-man-brands. Usually, but not necessarily, smaller than their grand old counterparts, these are companies in which the name that appears on the dial of the watch is the same as the name of the man that makes the watch.
The first such one-man brand of recent years was Franck Muller, a man whose watches have appeared on the wrists of everyone from royalty to rappers.
Franck started to repair and rebuild antique watches. By the early eighties he had established a considerable reputation, restoring important timepieces for auction houses and private collectors.


It was while working on the restoration of masterpieces of the past that he decided to make some masterpieces for the present. In 1986, he created a free-oscillation tourbillon wristwatch with jumping hours and a regulator-type dial. It caused a sensation when it was exhibited at the Basle Fair. Rather like a master couturier, unveiling a daring new look, the annual arrival of a new Franck Muller ‘World Premiere’ became a keenly anticipated event in the horological calendar.
Like Muller, Michel Parmigiani started out repairing and restoring vintage pieces before moving on to found his own eponymous brand. While some watch marques make themselves heard, shrieking their qualities from the wearer’s wrist in a manner that is far from subtle, a Parmigiani is best appreciated using a jeweller’s loupe to examine the exquisite composition and finishing of the movement visible through a glass caseback.
As it is with the watches so it is with the man. Surprisingly youthful looking for his 50-something years, in his own quiet, quasi-academic way Michel Parmigiani is passionate about and deeply involved in the living tradition of horology. Michel Parmigiani maintains an almost monastic devotion to and a scholarly interest in the practice and philosophy of watchmaking. He says that he founded a brand under his own name because, “I can express myself more freely and transmit a message that haute horologerie is not just about gold and diamonds.” He is keen to stress that he is “not making a consumer product but creating part of a tradition,” using a “philosophy developed through years of restoration.”
Another man adapting the lessons of the past to the wristwatches of today is F.P. Journe, whose distinctive looking timepieces boast an innovative dial layout, with screwed on subdials. Journe is a watchmaker’s watchmaker.
Typical of the sorts of timepieces he makes is the ‘chronometre a resonance’, which draws upon the work of 18th century watchmaker Antide Janvier. One of the problems watchmakers of that period had to overcome was the issue of the beat of the pendulum and the resonance this set up – it was not unknown for pendulum clocks of that time to stop when entering into resonance with the driving weight.
Janvier sought to make a feature of the phenomenon by creating two complete movements placed close to each other with the two pendulums suspended from the same housing; with one recovering the energy spent by the other creating a harmonious resonance. Journe has taken this recondite – and, to those like me who do not have a masters degree in physics, rather baffling – corner of physics and horological history and after 15 years research adapted it to the wristwatch, where it ensures smoother than usual running for two separate movements in one case.
Entirely different is the uncompromising approach and stunningly contemporary aesthetic of French-based watchmaker Richard Mille.
It is hard to use conventional nomenclature to describe such a radically designed, sui generis watch as a Mille. For instance the Richard Mille tourbillon, its case punctuated by titanium screw heads of a unique five-point star design, has a stark, scientific, almost space-age quality about it. The hands are beefy no-nonsense affairs rendered elegant by piercing in the middle. However the biggest surprise comes in the upper half of the dial: its resemblance is, if anything, less horological and more akin to the instrument panel of a sports car. There are two symmetrically arranged gauges, rather like a speedometer and a rev counter; one transpires to be for power reserve, the other is a neologism called a torque indicator.


Mille’s intention was to make a watch that was easier to use for both wearer and watchmaker. “For instance the winding system is at the back of the case rather than underneath the dial, which means that watchmakers no longer have to dismantle the entire watch to get to the mechanism.”
However if there is one component of the watch about which he seems particularly proud it is the titanium screw created uniquely for his watch. He becomes almost Messianic as he recounts the remarkable qualities of what others might regard as a rather humble component. “The titanium screws of this watch allow phenomenal screwing/unscrewing torque, thus avoiding any damage to the screw that frequently occurs with a conventional screwdriver. The particular shape of the screwhead means only specialised approved retailers, who have the proper tools, can dismantle the watch. A copper washer under each screw allows optimum tightening without marking the bridges or plates. At critical points, such as the crown wheel, wear-resistant washers, hardened and precision-ground, have been placed to protect the functional components.”
I can also recommend the haute horlogerie of Gino Macaluso; there is a passion, an aesthetic individuality and an ingenuity about his watch brands, Girard Perregaux and Daniel Jean Richard, which makes them amongst the most interesting and most undervalued on the market today. Indeed it was when talking with Gino Macaluso that I asked what it was in his opinion that makes the field of high watchmaking and complicated timepieces so attractive.
Macaluso explains the situation thus. “Every watch collector desires to have something very very personalised with a good sense of innovation. And it is the innovation plus quality that gives something unique for the future, as well as the pleasure of discovering the magic cleverness of the watchmaker,” he says, adding that a watch that really stands apart from its peers “is very interesting because it could be a good investment.”
Certainly the more forward looking of watch brands are raising their game as far as haute horlogerie is concerned. At last year’s Geneva Watch Fair, Cartier showed a minute repeater and a perpetual calendar, both housed in the Paris jeweller’s classic tortue case. Meanwhile the jet set jeweller Chopard is taking its bid for haute horologerie credibility so seriously that some years ago it inaugurated a separate factory, in the quiet village of Fleurier (near to the factory of Michel Parmigiani) where it has been producing small numbers of highly desirable watches under the brand LUC, of which the tourbillon is a real delight.
But perhaps one of the most remarkable entrants into the field of haute horlogerie is Breitling. Breitling is the watch brand most closely associated with aviation and its timepieces tend to be characterised by a functional ruggedness. However as part of its commitment to mark the 100th anniversary of flight last year, it created a set of four Grande Complication pocket watches, which were auctioned by Antiquorum in October. These watches exceeded their pre-sale estimate and eventually sold for over a million Swiss francs. This year Breitling will present another very special complicated pocket watch, which will be dedicated to the car manufacturer Bentley, with whom Breitling is a partner, and will be presented at auction later this year.
As Count Larosee, Breitling’s distributor in the UK says, “It is worth recalling that the creation of haute horlogerie specimens is undertaken by Breitling to demonstrate its know-how in all fields of watchmaking, including those with which it is not generally associated by the public at large.”

 

 

 

 

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