The Ghost Architect Steps Forward

Dominique Renaud spent decades building the movements that made other watchmakers legendary. Now the co-founder of Renaud & Papi puts his own name on the dial — and bets the future on a heartbeat.

For forty years, Dominique Renaud built the movements that made other men famous. The minute repeaters inside Audemars Piguet’s most coveted references, the complications powering Richard Mille’s wrist-machines, the calibres that gave IWC and Jaeger-LeCoultre their mechanical bona fides during the 1990s renaissance — all of these passed through Renaud &…