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A Maison Temps watch takes between three and six months to complete. Here is what happens during those months — and why every hour of it matters.
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Each calibre begins as 200+ individual components, machined to tolerances measured in hundredths of a millimetre. Our master watchmakers assemble every movement by hand — bridge by bridge, jewel by jewel — under 10× magnification. The process takes up to eighteen hours per movement before a single second is counted.
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The case undergoes seven distinct finishing stages: rough machining, precision milling, surface grinding, anglage, brushing, polishing, and final inspection. Anglage — the hand-bevelling of every lug edge and case flank — is the mark of a house that considers the view from every angle. It cannot be automated.
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A dial starts as a raw brass blank — flat, unassuming, and deliberately blank. From there: lacquering, texturing, galvanic treatment, applied index fitting, and printing. A sunray finish requires eleven passes under rotating brushes at controlled pressure. The dial you see represents nearly a full day of process before it enters the movement.
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Every watch passes a 72-hour timing test in six positions, mirroring the orientations of a wrist in motion. Water resistance is verified to rated depth in a pressure chamber. Each crystal is inspected for optical distortion under polarised light. Only when every criterion is met does a watch receive its serial number.
40% lighter than steel, with a strength-to-weight ratio that outperforms most alloys. We use aerospace-grade Grade-5 titanium for cases that endure without burdening the wrist.
Grown as a single crystal of aluminium oxide, hardness-rated at 9 on the Mohs scale. Our crystals are double-domed and AR-coated on both surfaces to eliminate glare at any angle.
Every calibre is assembled and regulated in Switzerland. We source ebauches from established Swiss manufacturers and finish, decorate, and regulate them to our own standards in our workshops.
Our straps are sourced from tanneries in the Tuscany and the Jura. Vegetable tanning produces leather that develops a patina unique to the wearer — a strap that belongs, over time, to nobody else.