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Warm Burgundy

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Artisans De Genève is an independent watchmaking workshop offering handcrafted timepiece customization and restoration services. We are neither associated nor affiliated with the brands of the timepieces we work on. We carry out our work at the sole request of our customers, on their own timepieces and for their private use only. The work presented was commissioned by one of our customers. This presentation reflects our know-how and has no contractual value.
Warm Burgundy Mood

Genesis

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le projet
de M. Salva K.

Creativity has been at the heart of the workshop since our inception. Our work almost always involves gathering everyone’s memories and moments to transcribe them into horological language. Combining different craftsmanship or arts to bring back to life, through each project, these often intangible moments. Bringing surprising colors to forgotten arts to revive, even for a moment, ancient techniques and memories laden with savoir-faire.


Artisans de Genève responds to a client’s request by embarking on a new bold project. Tantalum, known for its robustness and density, nearly impossible to work with, requires complex craftsmanship.

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Watchmaker
Watchmaker

A workshop human scale

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TRANSFORMING THE
ORDINARY INTO THE
Extraordinary

Artisans de Genève embodies the fusion between individuals and watchmaking. This is a House where ideas are exchanged and reimagined collaborative way, according to our clients’ aspirations. It is in Geneva that all of the traditional watchmaking professions are brought together in a unique place, offering a multitude of possibilities to meet the diverse needs and desires of each individual client. It is within this dedicated framework that all of the restorations, repairs and modifications that we undertake – at the request of each client – are carried out by hand.
Gènese Emeraude
Gènese Emeraude
Génèse POL

A return to the origins

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An art dedicated
to others

Since its inception, our workshop has worked meticulously to offer our passionate clientele the most personalised horology experience. Returning to the origins of the profession where the watchmaker dedicates himself to the individual desires of each client, according to their unique codes, tastes and personal history. It is in this way that we are reconnecting with the roots of a vocation where man, his hands and his tools are definitively bringing the clients’ desires to life.
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Watchmaker

Personnalisation

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Creative
watchmaking

Behind each personalisation lies the desire to stand out, to express yourself and to create a timepiece that is exclusive to you. It is a way of creating a unique piece, according to your choices, tastes and history, by specialists who dedicate their craftsmanship to an entirely bespoke project.
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The power of exchange

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From sketch
reality

The Warm Burgundy began on paper with a multitude of ideas inspired by our client, which we refined together over time.
Warm Burgundy Focus sur les modifications

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Client’s Testimony

I have been collecting watches for
over fifteen years,
mainly antique ones

I particularly love the idea that they all have their own story to tell. I have always had immense respect for watchmaking houses, especially the still-independent brands that continue to perpetuate a craftsmanship and tradition that is felt less and less in today’s watches.

MR.SALVA K.

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Warm Focus on the modifications
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Focus on our client’s modifications

Cadran
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Unique
Dial

The dial has been completely redesigned to offer a perfect smoked burgundy gradient. More than 52 versions were necessary to achieve the perfect combination of shades, from the lightest to the warmest. The sub-dials are sky blue lacquered and varnished. Each white gold appliqué is diamond-cut on each facet before being satin-finished by hand.
Watchmaker
Watchmaker
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Half open
work

With the watch back visible, the client wanted to harmonize the movement and the case back so that the two components blend together. Each bridge is decorated, bevelled and circled by hand before receiving a tantalum-coloured anthracite treatment to perfectly match from the case back to the bezel.
ouverte
Watchmaker
Masse en tantale
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Tantalum
Rotor

The rotor led to a new development to be able to machine it from a raw tantalum block. Sandblasting, Geneva stripes and laser engraving are then applied to give it all the necessary brilliance.
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Warm Burgundy Before
Warm Burgundy After
The back of the watch
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Others
modifications

Ag Warm Sign Bridge

Balance
Bridge

Fashioned from a block of hardened steel, the balance bridge was bevelled with a file to give it a perfectly rounded appearance. This rigorous technique requires hours of work in the workshop. The mirror polish is also entirely done by hand.
Ag Warm Sign Dial

Refined
Hands

The hands were developed specifically to meet our client’s desires. The hour and minute hands are refined and diamond-cut on each facet. The chronograph hand and the sub-dial hands are made of black-gold and struck around the edge of the head to bring more technicality and structure.
Ag Warm Sign Rotor

Super-
Luminova

night, a Super-LumiNova treatment has been applied to the seconds hand, to the dots on the hours, as well as to the word ‘DAYTONA®.’
The back of the watch

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Final Word from the Client

Customising one’s watch according to one’s
desires and choices is a precious
adventure for any enthusiast

where one wonders if the result will live up to one’s expectations. Working with Artisans de Genève has been a very enriching human story. I felt supported throughout the process of my customisation and carefully listened to and understood. Seeing my timepiece slowly taking shape and coming to life is truly an absolutely unique horological adventure.

MR.SALVA K.

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The back of the watch

The realisation

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THE WITNESS OF
a human
adventure

Each client brings with them their story, passions and desires. Our workshop then transforms into a real meeting space dedicated to fulfilling all of those desires. The experience we live through our clients’ projects is always an endless source of excitement, joy and unforgettable moments. The Warm Burgundy adventure is for us the perfect example of a project born of passions and memories for which a multitude of artisans have come together to witness an incredible moment.

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Ag Warm Sign Bridge
Ag Warm Sign Dial
Ag Warm Sign Rotor

Specs

Base

Rolex Daytona® 116520

Bezel

Modified base in tantalum

Dial

Smoked gradient

H/M Hands

Refined and diamond-cut

Movement

Semi-skeletonized artisanal

Custom Balance Bridge

Bevelled and rounded with a file

Rotor

Tantalum rotor, sandblasting and hand engravinge

Case and bracelet

Original case and bracelet

Warm Burgundy Reveal
Artisans De Genève is an independent watchmaking workshop offering handcrafted timepiece customization and restoration services. We are neither associated nor affiliated with the brands of the timepieces we work on. We carry out our work at the sole request of our customers, on their own timepieces and for their private use only. The work presented was commissioned by one of our customers. This presentation reflects our know-how and has no contractual value.
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own story

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Some of our
Past Challenges

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You can discover below some challenges that we took for our clients. We are ready to take the one you will give us on your own favorite timepiece.