A catchy name to be sure, and although I asked Bernhard what was the meaning of the ‘R’ was, he remained silent and the meaning of ‘R’ for moment remains a mystery.īernhard had already began imagining a new calibre of his own design back at the start of his career. Years of study and experience in the Vallée de Joux directly fed Bernhard’s ambition to design and construct the Calibre R for his own watch. There was once a pride in the movements that were manufactured here, later exhibited and tested at Observatory competitions, and passed onto the market that showed Swiss watchmaking was the pinnacle of chronometric achievement. Even now the movements in watches from that time, with a little love, care, and attention, keep time perfectly. A great deal of hyperbole is expended on the latest and greatest, but it is in the smallest of details that the time keeping properties, the finishing, and the longevity of the watch movement will prove itself.īernhard Zwinz has long held that watchmaking in the Vallée de Joux should return to its halcyon days lying between the 1880’s and the 1920’s. The characteristic, high degree of horological perfection, with vast amounts of hand finishing and attention to detail in the smallest of elements within the movement has slowly been lost, or watered down past recognition. Little by little the movements produced there are not what they once were here too machines have steadily made their advance. The famed watchmaking traditions this valley once stood for has however changed, slowly, through the course of time.
This is a place where change is slow the alternation of the seasons is about as fast as is it gets.
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