The atelier
Six stations in a workshop above the Quai du Mont-Blanc. Each serves a different stage of restoration, each holds the accumulated knowledge of four generations.
The primary workbench, inherited from Émile.
Walnut, brass fittings, carved with the marks of seventy thousand hours.
Schaublin 102, delivered 1961.
For turning balance staffs, cannon pinions, anything requiring tolerances measured in thousandths.
The archive: four thousand components.
Movements, bridges, wheels. Catalogued by calibre, by decade, by the peculiar logic of necessity.
Witschi Chronoscope X1.
The final arbiter. A movement's voice rendered as amplitude, beat error, rate variation.
The polishing room, separate and sealed.
Gold dust settles on every surface. We collect it, refine it, return it to the work.
The regulation station, north-facing.
Where a movement learns to keep time as its maker intended. The last step before return.