BridgesCôtes de Genève
Parallel waves drawn across each bridge with a turning boxwood wheel and abrasive paste, one pass per stripe.
6 h per movement
Maison Vérant — Le Sentier, depuis 1889
L’HeureBleue
A 39 mm automatic with a hobnail guilloché dial and the Calibre VR-89, assembled and regulated from start to finish by a single watchmaker in the Vallée de Joux.
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Your local time, as the hands read it
I — Anatomy
Seven layers, 212 parts.
Scroll to lift the watch apart. Each layer is cut, finished and fitted in our workshop in Le Sentier, then assembled again by the same hands.
Layer separation0.0 mm
II — Calibre VR-89
The movement, alive.
01
The rotor winds
A 22k gold rotor turns with every movement of the wrist and winds a mainspring that stores 72 hours of energy.
02
The train divides
Five wheels step that energy down from the barrel to the escapement. Every pivot turns in a synthetic ruby.
03
The balance keeps time
Three full swings every second, 21,600 vibrations an hour. The tick you hear with the watch to your ear is this wheel.
- Frequency
- 3 Hz
- Jewels
- 31
- Reserve
- 72 h
- Diameter
- 26.2 mm
- Height
- 4.6 mm
- Parts
- 212
Beats since you arrived 0
III — Atelier
Finished by hand, even where no one will look.
Most of the finishing on a VR-89 sits under the dial or behind the rotor. We do it anyway, with the same four techniques the valley has used for two centuries, and with no machine that could do it faster.
Main platePerlage
Thousands of small overlapping circles pressed into the plate with a rotating peg, including under the dial.
≈ 2,400 circles
Every edgeAnglage
Each edge is filed to a 45° bevel, then polished with gentian wood until it catches light as a single bright line.
41 inward angles
Steel partsPoli noir
A mirror polish so flat the surface looks black from most angles. Done on a tin plate with diamond paste, by eye.
Up to 9 h per part
212components in the Calibre VR-89
31rubies at every point of friction
72 hof power from a single barrel
1watchmaker, from first screw to final regulation
From the bench
“A movement is finished when you can no longer find the place where you stopped working on it.”Élise Rochat, chef d’atelier
IV — Collection
Three dials. One calibre.
- Case
- 39 mm × 11.4 mm, 316L steel, polished and satin
- Crystal
- Domed sapphire, sapphire caseback
- Water
- 50 m
- Strap
- Hand-stitched calfskin, steel pin buckle
V — By appointment
Hold one in your hand.
Each reference is made in small series. A viewing lets you see the dials in daylight, try the case on your wrist and meet the person who regulates your watch.
Le SentierThe manufacture, Grand-Rue 12
Tuesday to Saturday, workshop visits on request
Tuesday to Saturday, workshop visits on request
GenèveSalon Vérant, Quai du Mont-Blanc
Monday to Saturday
Monday to Saturday
ZürichBy appointment near Paradeplatz
Thursday and Friday
Thursday and Friday