WatchDossier Issue 14 - 2025
The Age of Intent
EDITORIAL
This issue of WatchDossier traces a single thread through disparate corners of contemporary watchmaking: intent. Whether in an Italian field watch dreaming of flight, a Swiss–Italian chronograph promising speed, or a cloistered master remembering his craft, each story asks what sincerity still looks like in a world of endless production.
In The Authenticity Engine, we examine how luxury sustains itself through discipline rather than novelty. In The Classifieds (But Not Really), the new independents speak in the coded language of desire—half advertisement, half confession. And in My Story: Franck Muller, 1995, a watchmaker’s voice becomes a mirror for the age: proud, restless, aware that permanence must now be performed as much as pursued.
Across these pages, one question endures: when everything can be manufactured, what remains worth making?
— The Editor
The Echo Chamber of Luxury Watches
The luxury watch industry prizes originality while perfecting imitation—a quiet mirror world of craft repeating itself.
The Authenticity Engine: Luxury’s Enduring Foundation
Luxury endures through discipline, not novelty—an authenticity engine humming beneath the polish of the world’s great maisons.
My Story: Franck Muller, 1995 — Reflections of a Watchmaker
Based on an interview given by Franck Muller in 1995 (Revue FH), at the inauguration of his Genthod manufacture. Reimagined here in a reflective, timeless tone.
Field Watch Dreams of Foreign Skies
A utilitarian Italian field watch equipped for international travel presents the curious tension of purposeful design chasing the increasingly anachronistic function of mechanical timezone tracking.
Italian Passion Contained in Swiss Precision
Where Swiss discipline meets Italian speed — a chronograph that promises velocity, not movement, and seduces through the illusion of motion contained within stillness.
THE CLASSIFIEDS (BUT NOT REALLY) Vol. 5
You won’t find full specs here. You will find intent, posture, subtext. These are horological classifieds for new releases from independents — announcements, invitations, provocations — interpreted f…
The next issue will be published on November 15, 2025.