316L surgical steel
Milled from a single billet. 47 polishing operations. No castings.
Time, redefined.
A study in time
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Anatomy.
Four parts. One instrument.
Sun-brushed lacquer
Eleven coats, each fired and hand-rubbed. Indices in 18k applied gold.
Caliber M-1
Free-sprung balance. Côtes de Genève. Visible through the sapphire caseback.
Aged French calf
Tanned for thirty days. Hand-stitched. Deployant buckle in matched steel.
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Heritage.
A century, told in three breaths.
The first bench
A small atelier opens on rue du Mont in Geneva. Eleven watchmakers. One ambition — to build movements that outlive their owners.
Caliber M-1
The first fully in-house movement. Free-sprung balance, hand-bevelled bridges, a 72-hour reserve. The architecture that still defines every MERIDIAN today.
Reference 0001
The first of two hundred and fifty. Engraved with its number, signed by its maker, delivered in a walnut case. A century later, the bench is still small.
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Time, redefined.
Worn once. Numbered. Kept forever.
Reference 0001 — limited to 250 pieces