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George Daniels (watchmaker)Born 19 Aug 1926Space Traveller pocket watch
The English maker many independents name as their inspiration, and this is the piece that shows why. Work began in 1979 and finished in 1982: a pocket watch with separate solar and sidereal trains, so it keeps both everyday time and star time, regulated by an…0 - 2
Vianney HalterAntiqua perpetual calendar
Shown at Basel in 1998, the Antiqua looked like nothing else at the fair: a perpetual calendar read through riveted portholes said to have been inspired by Captain Nemo's submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Halter calls his style Futur Antérieur, a future…0 - 3
F. P. JourneChronomètre à Résonance
François-Paul Journe's signature idea puts two independent balances in one movement and lets them interact through resonance. Launched in 2000, it was the first wristwatch to use the resonance phenomenon, and it set the tone for a maker who designs his own movements and…0 - 4
Philippe DufourSimplicity
The name is the brief, and the restraint is the challenge. Launched in 2000 from Dufour's workshop in Le Solliat, in the Vallée de Joux, the Simplicity has become the watch collectors reach for when they talk about hand finishing: with so little on the dial, every bevel, polished angle…0 - 5
UrwerkUR-103
Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei showed Urwerk's first watches at Baselworld in 1997, but the UR-103 of 2003 is where the brand's look settled: a sculpted case with three-dimensional, cone-shaped satellites carrying the hour around a minute scale instead of hands. It took six hard years to…0 - 6
Greubel ForseyDouble Tourbillon 30°
Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey's first invention puts one tourbillon inside another. The inner cage, holding the balance and spring, is tilted at 30 degrees and turns once a minute, while the outer cage turns once every four minutes, so the watch averages out gravity's…0 - 7
Roger W. SmithSeries 2
George Daniels chose Smith as his collaborator on the Millennium watches, a period Smith later called the finest finishing school he could have wished for. The Series 2 that followed was the first production movement designed around Daniels' original co-axial escapement, made on the Isle…0 - 8
H. Moser & Cie.Endeavour Perpetual Calendar
Most perpetual calendars crowd the dial with subdials. Moser's shows the date in a window at three o'clock and the month with a small arrow-shaped hand at the centre, pointing at the twelve hour markers, one for each month, so the dial stays almost as calm as a…0 - 9
MB&FHorological Machine No.1
The watch that turned Maximilian Büsser's collective of friends into something you could wear. It debuted in 2007 as the first Horological Machine, designed by Eric Giroud, with a movement developed by Peter Speake-Marin and Laurent Besse that runs on four mainspring…0 - 10
Ludovic BallouardUpside Down
A one-idea watch carried out with total seriousness. There is no hour hand: twelve numerals sit around the dial and eleven of them are always upside down. Only the current hour reads the right way up, and when the hour changes it flips back over while the next one turns upright in an…0
