A watchmaker who waited a lifetime to sign his own name.
Before the watches, the man, because with Laurent Ferrier the two are inseparable. A third-generation Geneva watchmaker, he spent thirty-seven years inside one of the city's most revered Manufactures before, at sixty-three, finally building a house of his own.
His debut wristwatch won Best Men's Watch at the 2010 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, an honour never before granted to a maison's first creation. The brief has not changed since: simplicity, precision, and pure, uncluttered beauty.
For collectors, the appeal is threefold. The finishing rivals houses many times the size. Production runs to only a few hundred pieces a year. And the signatures, the tapered "assegai" hands, the pebble-smooth cases, a natural escapement descended from Breguet, are unmistakable once you know them.
Hand-Finished
Côtes de Genève, hand-drawn flanks, bevelled wheel spokes and burin-cut internal angles, the vocabulary of the highest horology.
Racing Blood
The founders met at the wheel. Seven starts at the Le Mans 24 Hours sit behind every "Auto" and "Sport" calibre.
Genuinely Rare
A few hundred watches a year. You will seldom, if ever, meet another on a wrist.
