ID Genève‘s first métiers d’art watch arrives as a study in restraint. Built with independent watchmaker Florian Preziuso, it favors material honesty over flourish. The brief is simple and exacting – circular construction, high watchmaking, nothing superfluous.
The dial begins life as a rejected part. It is dismantled, then hand-worked with a bespoke guilloché, its untreated brass left to evolve into a living patina. No lacquer, no cover-up – time will do the finishing.
Turn it over and the idea repeats. A monoblock rotor, machined from brass offcuts, replaces the usual heavy metals and carries the same decorative language. One gesture, read on both sides.
The collaboration traces back to shared benches at the Geneva Watchmaking School. You can feel that bench logic here – economy of parts, clarity of purpose, execution first. As they put it, “each element serves a single idea. Nothing added. Nothing wasted.”
Cédric Mulhauser notes that knowledge shared multiplies, not just adds. Preziuso frames it as conviction – “nothing is lost, everything is transformed.” The watch wears that stance openly, without sermon or slogan.
It is available on pre-order in extremely limited quantities. No splashy promises, just a thoughtful exercise in reuse, technique, and quiet nerve. The kind of piece that will look better a decade from now because its maker allowed it to breathe.
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