Architectural Prowess: Greubel Forsey, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and Montblanc Heritage

The Grande Sonnerie by Greubel Forsey
With its architectural balance and careful movements, The Grande Sonnerie, Greubel Forsey’s latest offering at SIHH this year, is a striking one. Measuring 43.5 mm in diameter and 16.13 mm high, the timepiece features a self-winding system for 20 hours of power reserve, and a 72-hour chronometric power reserve. With three modes to choose from—Grande Sonnerie, Petite Sonnerie, and Silence—the watch is snug in a titanium cage. Limited to five-eight pieces a year, the watch is already making wrist reservations.

Hybris Artistica by Jaeger-LeCoultre
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Hybris Artistica collection is an inventive and creative one—and one that now encompasses two new stellar offerings. Three ladies’ models (in red, white, or blue), and a men’s model too, will now join the collection to show time in a new way—without hands. A suspended orbital tourbillon, held by a fixed dial, tells the hour, and a flange disc shows the minutes. Of note are the timepiece’s luxurious details, such as its white gold case, snow-set diamonds, mother-of-pearl dial covered in gold leaf, and embedded gemstones of either a sapphire or a ruby for marking its minutes.

Chronométrie ExoTourbillon Rattrapanta Limited Edition 8 by Montblanc Heritage
Since 1858, Montblanc Heritage has produced timepieces that are true to performance, and a direct testament to the house’s dedication to craftsmanship. This year, we are seeing the new Chronométrie ExoTourbillon Rattrapanta Limited Edition 8—a monopusher split-second chronograph with the watchmaker’s renowned ExoTourbillon. In a slim gold case with curved horns and a stepped bezel, the three-dimensional dial is enhanced by the small second’s subdial and the 30-minute counter, which both show an azure motif and an opaline decoration. With sword-shaped hands for the minutes and seconds, and baton-shaped hands for the day and night, the new timepiece is an artistic and bold piece from the house—and without a doubt one of this year’s finest offerings.