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The Paradox of Roger Dubuis

May 2004





In 1995, Carlos Dias and Roger Dubuis set about creating a watch brand that would combine horological tradition with modernity. 6 collections, nine calibres, 180 employees, a new high-tech manufacture and 3 boutiques later, the brand continues to innovate.

Photo: MUCHMORE CHRONOGRAPH
18 carat white gold rectangular-cambered case set with 90 diamonds. Equipped with a Calibre RD28 mechanical manually wound movement with Côtes de Genève decoration. Mono-push chronograph with coaxial crown, hours, minutes, central chronograph seconds, small seconds at 9 o’clock, 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock, sapphires crystals front and back, ivory coloured dial with blue painted Roman numerals, crocodile strap with white gold buckle set with 31 diamonds, water-resistant to 30 metres.


Roger Dubuis has already achieved many of the horological goals it set out to attain just a few years ago and is enjoying the fruits of its success. Today, with its new architecturally exciting manufacture, an awesome array of movements that range from a perpetual calendar to a tourbillon and an eye-catching collection of watches with names such as MuchMore, TooMuch and FollowMe, the brand is once again making innovative waves, but with its new advertising campaign.

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The campaign is both audacious and sensuous without being in the least offensive. Easy on the eye, glamorous and luxurious in its presentation, it brings a breath of fresh air to a genre that, with just a few exceptions, usually relies on the simple image of a timepiece that may or may not grab ones attention.
These new visuals transport the reader into a different, yet accessible world with which you might like to be associated and feature a man, a woman or both. The protagonist wears, of course, a Roger Dubuis watch that is also shown in a larger format alongside the visual.
To accompany these colourful advertisements, Roger Dubuis brings into play the philosophy and slogan ‘Tempus Vitae’ (The time of a life) and with the evolution of both time and events the protagonists will develop their story line.
Bold, colourful and even a little audacious, the new campaign elevates Roger Dubuis, the unconventional master watch manufacturer, into the realm of the avant-garde communicator.