Liens
Model History
Liens was born in 1977 not as a watch but as a jewelry collection: a ring featuring a mobile metal loop, conceived as a symbol of a bond — an emotional tie rendered in the form of a jewel. The name itself, "ties" or "bonds" in French, conveys Chaumet's intention: to transform a sentimental idea into a recognizable decorative motif, later declined across rings, bracelets and earrings.
In the following decades this same motif — the "lien", an interlacing that draws a bond on each side of the piece — was also taken up in watchmaking, giving rise to a line of timepieces with a round case and fluid lines, in steel or gold, sometimes enriched with diamonds. Here the bond design is not a simple ornamental detail but the element that visually structures the case, shaping its profile and creating a point of continuity between the two sides of the dial.
Unlike sportier collections such as the Class One, the Liens watch sits within the more classic register of the Chaumet catalogue: a white lacquer or satin-finished silver dial, a crown set with a mother-of-pearl cabochon, and an automatic mechanical movement with small seconds and date, in a design the house itself describes as "a precious and functional architecture, a tribute to time and to movement".
Technical Specifications
Main Executions
The "bond" motif underlying the Liens line was born almost fifty years before being applied to a watch: it was in 1977, as a simple ring, that Chaumet first introduced this design, today among the most recognizable and enduring in the house's entire decorative repertoire, in both jewelry and watchmaking.