Timeless LuxeTime, laid bare.
407 hand-finished components. Twin balance wheels. A perpetual calendar with nothing to hide. Assembled by one watchmaker, start to finish.
Reserve yoursTechnical specification
L’Ajour — Ref. 40‑407‑SK
- Movement
- Calibre TL-407 · self-winding · twin balance wheels in differential coupling · 37 jewels · 72-hour power reserve
- Complications
- Perpetual calendar (date, month, leap year) · moonphase, accurate to one day in 122 years
- Case
- 40mm · 18k 5N rose gold · sapphire crystal, front and caseback · 10.8mm thick
- Strap & clasp
- Black alligator, hand-stitched · 18k rose gold pin buckle
- Finishing
- Hand-bevelled bridges · Côtes de Genève · black-polished screws · 407 components
- Water resistance
- 30m (3 ATM) — an heirloom, not an instrument
Anatomy of a movement
Four hundred and seven parts.Not one of them hidden.
Every bridge is beveled by hand until its edges catch light like a knife’s. Every screw head is black-polished on a tin lap. Every jewel is set under a loupe, by the same watchmaker who will sign the finished piece.
The atelier
Craft, notcompromise.
Most skeleton movements pass through a dozen hands before they reach a case. Ours does not. Every Timeless Luxe calibre is drawn, assembled, regulated, and cased by a single watchmaker, working alone in a single atelier in the Vallée de Joux — the same hands from the first bridge to the final wind.
The twin balance wheels are not a flourish. Coupled through a differential and set beating in opposition, they cancel out the small positional errors a single oscillator cannot — the kind of correction usually reserved for a maison’s most serious chronometers, made visible here because there is nothing left to hide it behind.
Each bridge is hand-beveled under a loupe until its edges catch light like a knife’s. Screw heads are black-polished by hand on a tin lap, a technique that rewards patience and punishes shortcuts in equal measure. The finishing takes longer than the assembly. It always does.
A watch built this way cannot be rushed, and we have stopped trying. Each piece carries the mark of the watchmaker who made it. One name. One movement. One owner.
By appointment
Request a private viewing.
Timeless Luxe is made to order, one watchmaker at a time. Reserve a private appointment at the atelier or by video, and we’ll walk you through the piece before it’s yours.