Deconstructed Watch

More from this Special Report

• Deconstructed watch: Andersen Genève Tempus Terrae

  A world timer made under the auspice of Svend Andersen, whose complications include the thinnest such model ever made

  
• Deconstructed watch: Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref 6002G-001

  The back of the 44mm watch features a secondary dial intricately decorated with a sky chart

  
• Deconstructed watch: Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider Flyback Chronograph

  Ever since the Richemont takeover, the watchmaker has majored on producing highly complex skeletonised and heavily-styled watches in small editions

  
• Deconstructed watch: Ulysse Nardin Freak ONE

  A contemporary interpretation of the 2001 signature watch is being positioned as the brand’s new flagship offering

  
• Deconstructed watch: A Lange & Söhne Datograph Perpetual

  The German company’s chronograph, with its signature oversized date, traces its heritage back almost two centuries

  
• Deconstructed watch: Louis Vuitton Tambour Opera Automata

  Louis Vuitton is tackling one of the most rarefied of all areas of horology with the release of its second — and most complicated — automata watch to date

  
• Deconstructed watch: Oris Calibre 473

  The Swiss company’s new movement celebrates pure clockwork with the best features of an automatic

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Bremont Supernova

  The stainless steel 40mm wristwatch features an integrated bracelet and its own in-house movement

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Richard Mille RM UP-01 Ferrari

  At 1.75mm, the model picks up the world’s thinnest watch title from previously established contenders

  
• Deconstructed watch: Panerai Submersible S Brabus Blue Shadow edition

  The Italian watchmaker has partnered with German company Brabus for a special edition diving watch

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Hublot Square Bang Unico

  The LVMH-owned company adapts its own Big Bang theory to a square-cased watch

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Roger W Smith Series 1

  Revived in 2015 and changed from a rectangular-cased model to a rounded one, only 19 pieces of the time-only watch have ever been made

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Grand Seiko Tree Rings

  Dress watch boasts a five-day power reserve and a movement with exceptional accuracy in the cold

  
• Deconstructed Watch: RM 40-01 Automatic Tourbillon McLaren Speedtail

  An impressive piece of micro-engineering developed around the McLaren Speedtail’s distinctive ‘teardrop’ silhouette

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Bulgari’s Octo Roma Carillon Tourbillon

  The brand’s chimes in with heritage theme in high-tech form

  
• Deconstructed watch: Ferdinand Berthoud Chronomètre FB 2RE

  Chopard revives rare wrist watches aimed at wealthy connoisseurs

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Hermès Arceau Lift Tourbillon Répétition Minutes

  The latest model in a series of ambitious designs is based on the celebrated 1978 Arceau case

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Grand Seiko Snowflake

  The hybrid mechanical-quartz system provides a smooth, sweeping hand action that, the maker says, ‘represents the true motion of time’

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Grande Complication

  The 16-piece special edition watch pays homage to astronomy by featuring a star-chart decorated dial surrounded by a delicate filigree cage

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Zenith Chronomaster Revival Shadow

  Discovery in Zenith factory attic helps watchmaker claim the first all-black wristwatch title

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Hublot Classic Fusion Ferrari GT

  A watch for continent-crossing drives once associated with playboys of the 1960s

  
• Deconstructed Watch: IWC Timezoner ‘Longest Flight’

  The pilots watch that allows the wearer to switch time zones via the bezel has been reworked

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 30° Technique

  The mechanism can be seen in all its glory both through the open-worked dial

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Louis Vuitton Voyager Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon

  The complex $295,000 piece takes 320 hours to assemble

  
• The Deconstructed Watch: Audemars Piguet Code 11.59

  The brand branched out from its Royal Oak range but the result has divided opinion

  
• The Deconstructed Watch: A Lange and Sohne Datograph Up/Down Lumen

  A compound endows the timepiece with almost spectral glow-in-the-dark qualities

  
• The Deconstructed Watch: Richard Mille RM50-03 — McLaren F1

  The lightest tourbillon split-seconds chronograph ever created weighs a gossamer 38g

  
• The Deconstructed Watch: Jaeger LeCoultre’s ‘Queen Watch’

  It contains the Calibre 101, which remains the world’s smallest mechanical movement

  
• The Deconstructed Watch: MasterGraff GyroGraff

  It has cartoon-illustrated dials inspired by Laurence Graff’s car collection

  
• The Deconstructed Watch: Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept

  At SIHH the brand will unveil the thinnest mechanical wrist watch ever created

  
• The Deconstructed Watch: Roger Dubuis Excalibur Aventador S

  Inspired by Lamborghini’s £270,000 supercar, which has a top speed of 217mph

  
• The Deconstructed Watch: Chopard LUC Full Strike

  A modern take on the minute repeater complication

  
• The Deconstructed Watch: Christophe Claret X-Trem-1 Sting HD

  We take it to pieces to work out what makes it tick — and why it is so unusual

  
• Deconstructed watch: Bulgari Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater

  The technology behind the watch was devised for telling the time in the dark

  
• Deconstructed Watch: Hublot MP-05 La Ferrari Sapphire

  The idea is to represent the power of the supercar’s engine in clockwork form