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Veloris

Veloris Switzerland 1987/2026

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47 pieces / year

La Chaux-de-Fonds

01Origin

A watchmakershould beginwith time.

Watchmakers at their benches in a Swiss atelier, photographed in 1903.
Archive 1987 / Plate 001La Chaux-de-Fonds
Hand-written and hand-drawn watchmaking school notebooks.
Archive 1948 / Plate 014Cahiers d'atelier

VELORIS was founded in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1987 with a simple principle: remove everything unnecessary until only the essential remains.

Ateliers Veloris

Founded MCMLXXXVII

02The Hand
A watchmaker places a component with tweezers onto a movement holder.
Plate 021 / AssemblyAtelier
Tweezers lifting a part from a tray of movement components.
Plate 022Selection
Every calibre is finishedby a single pair of hands.
Hours per calibre212
Gloved fingertips holding a bare mechanical movement.
Plate 023Ébauche
A component measured with calipers over a technical drawing.
Plate 024 / Tolerance±0.01 mm

The human handis the firstMachine.

03Movement

Calibre 47

A manually wound movement designed, built and regulated in the atelier. It exists in no other maison’s catalogue, and never will.

  1. 181ComponentsEach finished by hand
  2. 38JewelsSynthetic ruby bearings
  3. 72HoursSingle barrel reserve
  4. 28,800Vibrations / hourFour hertz, free-sprung
  5. 47Pieces annuallyOne year of the atelier
CENTRETHIRDFOURTHBALANCEBARREL72 H RESERVEESCAPEMENT28,800 A/HJEWELS38 SYNTHETIC RUBYCAL. 47 — PL. 001Ø 30.20 MM — H 4.85 MM181 PARTS

Plate 001

The going train, laid out as it is cut. Bridges are drawn to tolerance; the balance runs free-sprung, adjusted in five positions before a movement leaves the bench.

Diameter30.20 mmHeight4.85 mmFrequency28,800 A/hReserve72 hoursJewels38Components181
04The Collection

V-01Nocturne

Black ceramicHand-finished steelBlack dial
V-01 NOCTURNE: a movement in black ceramic, lit from a single side.
V-01 / Reference 00147 pieces
47Pieces
V-02 MERIDIAN: an ivory enamel dial with blued steel hands beside its movement.
V-02 / Reference 002Ivory enamel

Meridian

A watchfor theedge of day.
Brushed titaniumIvory dialBlue steel hands
An engraved date ring, numerals cut into brushed steel.
Date ring / Plate 031Engraved

V-03Atelier

Rose goldGuilloché dialHand-engraved movement
V-03 ATELIER: a hand-engraved movement in rose gold, held in the hand.
V-03 / Reference 003Engraved by hand
Engine-turned guilloché, cut in concentric waves across a dial.
Guilloché / Plate 041Engine-turned
Hand engraving across the bridges of a gilt movement.
Bridges / Plate 042Anglage
Madeonce.
Neverrepeated.
05Archive

Thirty-nine yearsof one movementat a time.

Hundreds of dismantled wristwatches gathered together.
Archive / Unsorted1987—2026
  1. 1987

    Foundation

    A single bench on the Rue du Progrès. Two references completed in the first year.

    A watchmaker's bench beneath a wall chart of movement diagrams.
    Archive 1987Foundation
  2. 1994

    Calibre 12

    The first movement drawn, cut and finished entirely within the atelier.

    A jacot tool used to burnish pivots.
    Archive 1994Calibre 12
  3. 2003

    First independent escapement

    Seven years of trials. A detent escapement adjusted to run in five positions.

    A brass wheel-cutting engine on its wooden base.
    Archive 2003First independent escapement
  4. 2011

    Atelier series

    Engraving and guilloché brought in-house. Output settles at forty-seven pieces.

    Bound issues of a mid-century Swiss horology review.
    Archive 2011Atelier series
  5. 2026

    Calibre 47

    One hundred and eighty-one components. The current, and only, movement.

    Close detail of the going train of a mechanical calibre.
    Archive 2026Calibre 47

EverySecondLeavesA trace.

47 pieces.One year.

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