Hommage

Hommage is, together with Sympathie, one of the two collections with which the newly founded Geneva manufacture presents itself to the market in 1996, one year after the company's founding. The name — "tribute" — is openly a homage from Roger Dubuis to the watchmakers who had trained him over the course of his career, in particular during the long years spent in the grand complications workshop at Patek Philippe. The line borrows from 1950s wristwatch chronographs for its round case and onion-shaped pushers, in a classic and refined language that stands in clear contrast to the more aggressive lines the brand would develop in the 2000s.

From the very first pieces, Hommage watches integrate high-level complications consistent with the founder's training, including perpetual calendars with a double-retrograde module — the same display principle Roger Dubuis had helped develop together with Jean-Marc Wiederrecht for Harry Winston in the late 1980s — paired with the Geneva Seal certification that has accompanied almost the entire output of the brand since its earliest days.

After remaining for years on the margins of a catalog increasingly dominated by the Excalibur line, Hommage has returned to the spotlight with the Hommage La Placide, a double-retrograde perpetual calendar in a limited edition of 28 pieces that revisits the design of the original 1990s Hommage watches, presented by the brand as an explicit return to the manufacture's more understated stylistic roots on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary.