Pulsion

Technicals

Calibre reference: CH 1450
Movement details: Mechanical movement with tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement / Hand winding / Standard analogue hour and minute display with central hands. This basic calibre features a built in column-wheel chronograph visible on the dial side and comprising two counters (seconds and minutes)
Movement dimensions: Movement shape: tonneau Width: 30.40 mm / Length: 32.90 mm / Thickness: 7.40 mm
Indications: Hours, minutes
Chronograph: 60-sec. counter at 1.30 / 30-min. counter at 10.30 / Power-reserve indicator at 9 o’clock
Crown: Two positions: winding and setting
Push-piece: Single push-piece on the crown : start, stop, reset
Power reserve: 120 hours
Frequency: 21,600 vph
Number of parts: 265
Jewelling: 35
Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet)
Case: Tonneau, titanium
Case dimensions: Length: 55.40 mm (with horns) / Width: 44.30 mm / Thickness: 16.90 mm
Strap: Rubber or Hand-stitched leather
Clasp: Folding type, titanium

Pulsion

Chronograph Tourbillon

This precious timepiece comes with a hand-wound mechanical movement fitted with a flying tourbillon at 6 o’clock. Its 5-day power reserve is indicated on a 72° sector.

The column-wheel chronograph visible at 12 o’clock displays the seconds on a counter at 1.30 on the dial and the minutes on another, positioned at 10.30. It couples directly with the flying tourbillon carriage. The chronograph operations - start, stop and reset – are all controlled by a single push-piece placed on the crown.The upper and lower bridges and bars are made of a special aluminium, allowing the movement to take on any colour the customer may request. The mainplate displays an original honeycomb decorative finish visible both on the dial side and through the sapphire crystal case-back. The heart of the watch is housed in an ergonomically designed tonneau-shaped case fashioned in one size. The design’s spherical sapphire crystal further underlines the designer’s intention to create a smoothly sensual and ergonomic timepiece.

Origines

The Companions share a common background and knowledge base

Arabesque

Technicals

Calibre reference: CH 1000-BC
Movement details:
Mechanical movement with tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement
Hand winding

Movement dimensions:
Length: 31.50 mm / Width: 26.35 mm / Thickness: 5 mm

Indications: Hours, minutes
Crown: Two positions: winding and setting
Power reserve: 120 hours
Frequency: 21,600 vph
Number of parts: 157
Jewelling: 19
Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet)
Dial: Marquetry-worked carbon fibre
Case: Rectangular, titanium, (also available with
carbon fibre lateral inserts)

Case dimensions:
Length: 52.58 mm (with horns) / Width: 38,75 mm / Thickness: 14.40 mm
Strap: Rubber
Clasp: Folding type, titanium

Arabesque

The Tourbillon “Arabesque” model created by Brigitte Carneiro features an impressive design combined with an extremely light feel achieved by the use of contemporary materials: the rectangular case is made from titanium, while the dial and skeletonised bridges are crafted in carbon fibre and the mainplate is in aluminium.

The mechanical hand-wound movement driving off-centered hour and minute hands is equipped with a flying Tourbillon at 7 o’clock which completes a full rotation in one minute and is adorned on the bridge with tiny sparkling diamonds. The power reserve guarantees a full five days of autonomy.

Brigitte Carneiro

Brigitte Carneiro was born to Portuguese parents on April 24th 1979 in Thann, a village in Alsace, France. She studied in her native region and then specialised in watchmaking at the Edgar Faure school in Morteau.

Brigitte dreams of bringing a touch of grace and beauty to the world of complicated watches, and her first creation, ARABESQUE, gives just a glimpse on what is to come, especially since M. Gerald Genta, artistic advisor to the Confrérie Horlogère fell in love with her work and agreed to become the "godfather" of her next creations.

Bel Canto

Technicals

Calibre reference: CH 6000-RI
Movement details: Mechanical movement with tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement / Hand winding / Minute Repeater
Movement dimensions:
Diameter: 30.40 mm / Thickness: 8.88 mm
Indications: Hours, minutes
Power reserve: 120 hours
Frequency: 21,600 vph
Number of parts: 308
Jewelling: 44
Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet)
Case: Round, titanium
Case dimensions:
Diameter: 43 mm / Thickness: 14.80 mm

Strap: Hand-stitched leather
Clasp: Folding type, titanium

Bel Canto

Tourbillon Minute Repeater

The very first timepiece created and signed by Ranieri Illicher is a minute repeater tourbillon. Equipped with a full set of “cathedral” chimes, Bel Canto is powered by a hand-wound mechanical movement providing a five-day power reserve.
Activated via a lever positioned between 8 and 10, the minute repeater’s ”cathedral” chimes sound for twice the duration of standard chimes. Doubling its sequence, the chimes thus sound and repeat hours, quarter-hours and minutes on two notes, bringing to life a rounder and richer sound than usual. The centrally positioned hour and minute hands display the time in conventional fashion.
The tourbillon carriage’s upper bridge is R-shaped in tribute to its maker’s first name and features the same meticulously hand-bevelled and mirror-polished finish as the rest of the carriage; the bridges on the movement side form the outline of Italy enriched with a host of delicately hand-engraved mountains, volcanoes and mermaids or, in a Special Edition, the map of Mexico. Further refinements include the movement’s black gold finish.

Ranieri Illicher

Ranieri Illicher was born in Udine, Italy, on May 27th 1977. After qualifying as an accountant, he decided to pursue his education by specialising in watchmaking and enrolled at the famous WOSTEP where he studied under Kari Voutilainen, one of the great masters of contemporary watchmaking.

He thrives to create the perfect equilibrium between aesthetics and mechanics and the first masterpiece crafted for the Confrérie Horlogère, the “cathedral” minute repeater tourbillion “Bel Canto” illustrates his ambition.

ImmenSEAty

Technicals

Calibre reference: CH 1053 GS
Movement details:
Mechanical movement with tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement
Hand winding

Movement dimensions:
Length: Diameter: 30.40 mm / Thickness: 6.80 mm

Indications: Hours and minutes on Earth / Neptune time /
Uranus time / Saturn time / Power reserve
Crown: Two positions: winding and setting
Power reserve: 120 hours
Frequency: 21,600 vph
Winding crown: Two positions: winding and setting
Number of parts: 204
Jewelling: 27
Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet)
Dial: Glareproofed sapphire crystal
Strap: Hand-stitched leather

ImmenSEAty

the mechanism

“ImmenSEAty” comes with a hand-wound mechanical movement that provides five days of power reserve. Along with the centrally positioned hours and minutes on Earth, the watch shows the time on Neptune, Uranus and Saturn on individual subdials arrayed on the upper part of the main dial. At 6 o’clock, it features a flying tourbillon, i.e. one with a suspended carriage, that includes a Swiss lever escapement and a construction allowing the carriage to rotate in exactly one minute without resorting to ball bearings. The watch’s power reserve is indicated on a 120° sector positioned between 8 and 9 o’clock on the dial.

ImmenSEAty

Sculpture de Poignet

UNIQUE PIECE
The first creation by Gabriel Salgado de Arce is his splendidly inventive “Wrist Sculpture: ImmenSEAty”.

An entire underwater universe sculpted onto a proprietary movement that gradually reveals an immense variety of marine creatures. Miniature crab-like animals, tiny turtles and starfish, mantises and seashells, all moving in step with the beat of the watch’s mechanical movement. This microcosm can only be explored and fully revealed under magnification. Over 1,600 hours of work went into crafting the watch’s sculpted decor.

Gabriel Salgado De Arce

Gabriel Salgado De Arce was born to Spanish parents in Bogota, Colombia, on March 12th 1962. After graduating in philosophy, he studied the art of manual engraving from the age of 25, a craft he has been pursuing for more than 22 years.

His ambition is to create one of a kind “Wrist sculptures” impossible to imitate or reproduce.

The Confrérie Horlogère invites you to discover his first masterpiece: ImmenSeaty, a magical underwater world in perpetual motion.

Confrères

The Companions express their individuality

La Clef du Temps

Technicals

Calibre reference: CH 1057-CDT
Movement details: Mechanical movement with vertical tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement / Hand winding
Movement dimensions: Width 40.10 mm / Length  40.40 mm / Thickness 7.80 mm
Indications: Hours, minutes
Retrograding running seconds at 4 o’clock
Special pace-of-time indicator     at 10 o’clock:
1. Doubled-speed 2. Standard-speed 3. Half-speed
Power-reserve indicator (PRI) at 8 o’clock

Crown at 3 o’clock: Two positions : winding and setting
Crown at 9 o’clock: Three positions : speed-of-time modulation
Power reserve: 80 hours
Frequency: 21,600 vph
Number of parts: 364
Jewelling: 47
Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet)
Case: Titanium
Movement dimensions: Width 53.20 mm / Length  58.60 mm / Thickness 21.6 mm
Strap: Eight rubber-clad strands
Clasp: Folding type, titanium

La Clef du Temps

The mechanism

The sophisticated mechanism allows the wearer to “modulate the speed of time” by simply operating a three-position crown placed at 9 o’clock and serving to alter the running speed of the hours and the minutes.

With the crown in position 1, the pace of time is doubled (so a standard half-hour becomes a full hour on the dial of “La Clef du Temps”); when the crown is in position 2, the pace of time remains the same (i.e. one hour remains one hour); and with the crown in position 3, the pace of time slows by half (so that the value of one normal hour is displayed as a half-hour on the dial of “La Clef du Temps”).

The mechanical memory of the watch allows its time indications to remain in positions 1 or 3 as long as its wearer wishes, since simply returning the crown to position 2 resets the hour and the minute hand to the real time of day.

Dial information: hours and minutes off-centred, special “pace-of-time” at 10 o’clock, retrograding running 30-seconds-counter at 4 o’clock and a power-reserve indication (PRI) shown on a 120° indicator at 8 o’clock.

La Clef du Temps

LIMITED EDITION OF 24 PIECES
An exceptional mechanism created by Mathias Buttet – founder of Confrérie Horlogère – for the Only Watch 09 auction: an event that takes place every two years and is aimed at raising funds to help children affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Touched by the devastating effects of this disease, Mathias Buttet has developed a Vertical tourbillon watch which features a hand-wound mechanical movement able to make the time last longer for those who don’t have much of it. Moreover, the prototype developed has been enriched with a further function allowing users to shorten the time if they so wish.             

Mentors

the Companions aspire to the watchmaking of the future

Respect for the Artist
Freedom to Create

The Confrérie Horlogère

RESPECT FOR THE ARTIST
FREEDOM TO CREATE


The Confrérie Horlogère was brought to life in  April 2008 by the willpower of Mathias Buttet, who envisioned a watch brand of outmost sophistication that would allow young talented craftsmen to create timepieces out of their passion, their dream of freedom, and their creativity, to achieve a type of watchmaking never seen before, a result of the imagination and the personality of each companion.

Backing the innovative endeavor of the Confrérie Horlogère is BNB Concept, world leader in high-end complicated watch movement.

3 distinctive collections make up the Confrérie

  • The “Confrères” timepieces, each incarnating the creativity of its maker
  • The “Origines” timepieces as a salute to the patrimony of the Manufacture, reinterpreted by the Companions
  • The “Mentors” timepieces, next generation watchmaking a a result of a close collaboration of the Companions with the R&D engineers. Technical achievement competes with aesthetics.

 

 

Companions

Confrère

Specialization

Creation

Since

David Rodriguez

watchmaker

Coming Soon

2008

Brigitte Carneiro

watchmaker

Tourbillon Arabesque

2008

Ken Koshiyama

watchmaker

Coming Soon

2008

Ranieri Illicher

watchmaker

Tourbillon Minute Repeater Bel Canto

2008

Sabitry Montandon

watchmaker

Coming Soon

2008

Clara Bise

watchmaker

Coming Soon

2008

Gabriel Salgado de Arce

engraver and chaser of watch components

Tourbillon ImmenSEAty

2008

Jérôme Siegrist

watchmaker

Coming Soon

2009

Principles

All watches designed and presented by Confrérie Horlogère share the following qualities: lifetime warranty, entirely Swiss made and embodying the Obligation to Excel.

The Lifetime Warranty- Principle to Endure

All watch movements of Confrérie Horlogère are monitored over the years by the Companions. The Lifetime Warranty includes the right to a cost-free inspection and cleaning of the movement every two years with the service time never exceeding eight weeks. If for any reason the Companion who made the watch is unavailable to repair or clean it, another Companion steps in and does the job for him or her.
Servicing and maintenance outposts are set up in strategic parts of the world. Staffed by members of Confrérie Horlogère, this network fulfills all Lifetime Warranty requirements.

Totally and completely Swiss-made

Every single part and component is of Swiss provenance: mechanism, case, sapphire crystal, dial, hands, bracelet or strap, giftbox etc.

The Obligation to Excel

Every new design has to embody the most demanding quality standards. Particularly as regards the “Confrères” collection, every new watch should invariably express an ever more personal character, steeped in its designer’s DNA, reflect his or her passionate devotion to horology and embody ever greater technical and aesthetic excellence.

News

Belles Montres

November 27, 28, 29

Rendez-vous à Paris : the Confrérie Horlogère unveils its astounding collections to the French public during the exclusive « Belles Montres » exhibition.

www.bellesmontres.fr

 

EMWA in Monterrey

October 5-7 2009

The Confrérie Horlogère presence in Mexico continues with the exhibition of selected timepieces at EMWA in Monterrey.

Salon Internacional Alta Relojeria, Mexico city

29-30 September 1 October 2009

World Premiere of the Confrérie Horlogère at the  “Salon Internacional Alta Relojeria” in Mexico city. For the first time, the creations of the “CH” are accessible for a wide public.

www.salonaltarelojeria.com

Only Watch 09 auction

September 24 2009

Great satisfaction for the Confrérie Horlogère during the Only Watch 09 auction: the prototype “La Clef Du Temps” sells for 280’000 euro.

Only Watch 09

Only Watch 09

24 September 2009

The prototype “La Clef du Temps” is protagonist at the Only Watch 09 auction that takes place in Monaco.

www.patrizziauction.com/only_watch

M.Gerald Genta with The Confrérie Horlogère

August 2009

The Confrérie Horlogère secures the artistic advice of M.Gerald Genta. The technical excellence of the Manufacture meets the legendary artistic Flair of the “Maestro”.

Contact

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