Velvet

Launched in 2012, the Velvet marks an important step for the Geneva manufacture: it is the first collection conceived explicitly for a female audience, in a catalog that until then had mostly offered feminine versions of lines originally created for a male audience, including Excalibur itself. The case, described by the brand as a "trompe l'oeil" shape halfway between round and tonneau, becomes the line's distinctive trait, offered in a compact diameter (36 mm) and designed to accommodate elaborate jewelry work.

The mechanical heart of the collection is the caliber RD821, an in-house manufactured automatic movement with 172 components, a balance running at 28,800 vibrations per hour and 48 hours of power reserve, certified with the Geneva Seal like almost the entire output of the brand: a detail that places the Velvet, despite its positioning closer to jewelry than Excalibur, firmly within the field of manufacture fine watchmaking.

Alongside versions with steel or gold cases, the line has established itself above all through the Velvet Haute Joaillerie executions, adorned with hundreds of baguette- and brilliant-cut diamonds along the case, lugs and dial, with clients able to choose two colored stones — rubies, sapphires or emeralds — to be set using artisanal jewelry techniques such as claw, channel or invisible setting.