Première · Ref. 1871-PT
Platinum, slate grand feu enamel, calibre VR-07. Twenty-eight pieces.
DiscoverI — Calibre VR-07
Every bridge is bevelled at forty-five degrees and polished with gentian wood. Every screw head is black-polished until it vanishes in the light. The movement is assembled twice: once to regulate, once to keep.
II — Grand Feu
Our enamel dials are painted by a single artisan in Le Sentier and returned to the kiln until the colour sinks beneath glass. Roughly one in three survives. The others are broken by hand.
III — Signature
From the first wheel to the final regulation, a single watchmaker carries each piece. Their initials are engraved beneath the barrel bridge, unseen until its first service — often a generation later.
Since 1871
In 1871 Élise Verane, a cabinotier's daughter, opened a two-room workshop above the Rhône with three benches and a single lathe. She signed her first watch in 1874 and kept a ledger of every piece that left the house.
That ledger is still open. Every Verane made since is entered by hand, with the name of the watchmaker who finished it. Any watch in it can return to the atelier and be restored with parts cut on the original tooling.
The workshop has moved once, across the river. It has not grown much. That was always the intention.
Collection 2026
“We make each watch twice — once in the mind, and once by hand.”
Élise Verane, 1894