Laurent Ferrier Classic Tourbillon Teal – Série Atelier VII

To mark 15 years of independent watchmaking, Laurent Ferrier has unveiled a rare and ravishing watch: the Classic Tourbillon Teal – Série Atelier VII. Limited to just five pieces, this platinum-clad timepiece is a confidential ode to precision and craft and a chance to join the smallest of circles who can claim ownership of Laurent Ferrier’s platinum-bound legacy.

Ferrier has always balanced restraint with refinement, and this edition revisits the maison’s first triumph – the Classic Tourbillon, winner of the 2010 GPHG Men’s Watch Prize – with an unmistakably modern palette. The 41 mm case, rendered for the first time in 950 platinum, evokes the 19th-century pocket watches that inspire Ferrier’s pebble-smooth silhouettes, crowned with the brand’s signature ball-shaped winding crown.

The dial is exquisite: a teal grand feu enamel, shimmering with green and blue hues, its Roman numerals finely outlined in white enamel for clarity. A sky-blue railway track frames the hour circle, while the small seconds – discreetly positioned at six o’clock – sits within a bevelled white gold flange. The effect is an elegant balance of colour, depth and symmetry, accentuated by assegai-shaped white-gold hands.

Behind the sapphire caseback lies its beating heart: the calibre LF619.01, a hand-wound tourbillon movement with double balance springs. Far from a showy aperture on the dial, the tourbillon here is true to Breguet’s 1801 intention, an invisible guarantor of accuracy. Its architecture has been given a contemporary twist, with horizontal satin finishing, ruthenium bridges and rhodium-plated components gleaming in perfect harmony. The mechanism offers over 80 hours power reserve.

Every angle and surface is hand-finished with obsessive devotion: thirty inward angles on the tourbillon bridge alone, mirror-polished screws, and frosting that speaks to centuries of haute horlogerie tradition. Available exclusively online at CHF195,000.

Author: Julia Pasarón

Other examples of delicate craftmanship in watchmaking reviewed recently by I-M Inquisitive Minds include the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, the Bovet Récital 12 Malachite and Tiger’s Eye, and the Van Cleef & Arpels Berry Delicious Perlée Extraordinaire.