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Grand feu cream enamel, oxblood numerals — a dial fired nine times and kept once.
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Horlogerie d'art · Genève · Fondée MCMLXXXVII
Time, made by hand.
One watchmaker. One bench. Eight months of finishing you will mostly never see — and always feel.
Genève — 00:00:00
Cal. V-87 · 18,000 A/H · Hand-wound
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Most watches are assembled. Ours are argued over — every bridge bevelled by hand, every screw blued over an open flame, every dial fired until the kiln says yes.
Maison Veille makes twenty-four watches a year. Not because we couldn't make more — because the watch we want to make takes eight months, and we keep one bench, one watchmaker, and no excuses on the premises.
The house is named for the old French veille — the night watch, the hours you keep while everyone else sleeps. That is when the best work happens. It shows.
Slowness is not
our limitation —
it is the point.
№ 02 — The movement
Calibre V-87
An argument in brass & steel — scroll to take it apart
131 parts. Eight months. No shortcuts.
Three dials. One calibre.
No variants. No limited editions. Twenty-four watches, numbered in the order their owners found us.
131Components in Calibre V-87
18,000Beats per hour, hand-regulated
8Months on the bench, average
24Watches a year — not one more
The wait is part of the watch.
We accept twenty-four commissions a year, in the order they arrive. A conversation first. A deposit when we agree on the dial. A watch when it is finished — and not one day before.
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