Technical Pioneers
Watchmakers whose inventions changed how watches work.
Stories
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Cartier and the first great wristwatch shapes
A pilot’s problem in 1904, a square case and a rectangle: how Cartier designed the wristwatch before most people wore…
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Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms and the birth of the modern dive watch
A French combat divers’ wish list, a Blancpain boss who dived, and the 1953 watch that set the template.
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Favre-Leuba: the house that put an altimeter on the wrist
From Le Locle in 1737 to the Bivouac and the Bathy, how Favre-Leuba turned the wristwatch into a measuring instrument.
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Breguet: the watchmaker who never stopped inventing
From the self-winding Perpétuelle to the 1801 tourbillon, how Abraham-Louis Breguet set the agenda for two centuries of watchmaking.
