his exceptional issue, with over 160 pages and distributed worldwide, is dedicated to watchmaking’s pioneers, to the adventurers of time, to those who, colleagues as much as rivals, have together forged the landscape of horology over hundreds, even thousands of years, right up to the present day. Vacheron Constantin’s masterwork on our front cover is a stunning demonstration of human genius applied to the measurement of time.

Nothing fundamentally separates the builders of Stonehenge from the pinion cutter in Le Brassus, other than the sophistication of their tools and the public they address. The pursuit of precision, of beauty, of a job well done is instinctively human. Because when we master time, we dominate our environment, cross oceans and eras...

History, like watchmaking, is a living subject, hence our aim has not been to paint an exhaustive picture but to recreate tableaux representing different eras that will spark our readers’ curiosity and inspire them to delve further into each of these periods. Because these pioneers of time are not distant, dusty figures. They are with you every day, on your wrist, where your pulse beats. The heartbeat of horology.

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