Loading...At the end of 2016, Louis Moinet’s celebrations of the anniversary of the invention of the chronograph finally had to come to a close. There’s never been a year like it!
International acclaim
Louis Moinet was one of the first ever designers in watchmaking, combining artistic and technical talent. Today, the three “Good Design” awards picked up in Chicago for the Sideralis, the 200th anniversary Memoris, and the Black Gold Derrick pay tribute to this lineage. Not only that – Memoris won the “Best Chronograph” at the Salon des Grandes Complications show in Dubai, as well as the Robb Report’s “Best of the Best” Award, while in Russia, the Russian Eagle Mecanograph claimed the “Men’s Watch of the Year” title.
A Guinness World Record for Louis Moinet
After the best part of six months of procedures and thorough investigations, Louis Moinet is especially proud to have become the official holder of the title of “World’s First Chronograph Ever”, awarded by the official Guinness World Records organisation.
In bestowing the award, the worldwide authority brings further recognition of a fact already widely acknowledged in the world of watchmaking: the chronograph was first invented by Mr Louis Moinet in 1816, with his “Compteur de Tierces”.
200th anniversary of the chronograph – Red Eclipse rising
Louis Moinet marked the bicentenary of the invention of the chronograph with a celebration at the Neuchâtel Observatory during the eclipse of the moon on September 16. On that occasion, an exceptional watch was unveiled. Embodying the very best in craftsmanship and watchmaking creativity, Red Eclipse is a limited edition of twelve fully hand-engraved watches, each with an enamel hand-painted plate.
The perfect EVOlution
Sideralis EVO is a very limited edition (just 12 pieces) of the complication of the same name, presented at Baselworld.
This all-new version of the piece features a lighter style, offering an uncluttered setting for its double tourbillon, which powers an astral complication (patent pending).
Black Gold Derrick
Louis Moinet is the first firm in the world to have miniaturised the entire dynamic process of oil extraction.
Its spectacular new-look Derrick revolutionises the worlds of oil and watchmaking once more, with openwork mechanical parts of the movement further enhancing the technology involved in its extraordinary mechanism.
The watch’s entire movement represents the drilling process.
About Louis Moinet
Ateliers Louis Moinet was founded in Saint-Blaise, Neuchâtel, in 2004. The fully-independent firm was established to honour the memory of Louis Moinet (1768-1853): master watchmaker, inventor of the chronograph in 1816 (certified by Guinness World RecordsTM), and pioneer in the use of very high frequencies (216,000 vibrations per hour). Louis Moinet was a watchmaker, scholar, painter, sculptor, and teacher at the School of Fine Arts – as well as the author of Traité d’Horlogerie, a watchmaking treatise published in 1848 that remained a definitive work of reference for almost a century. Today, Ateliers Louis Moinet is perpetuating this legacy. The firm’s timepieces, produced in limited editions only, have won some of the most coveted honours, including a Red Dot Design Award (Best of the Best category), gold and bronze medals in the Chronometry Competition, a Robb Report “Best of the Best” award, a “Chronograph of the year” distinction from Begin magazine, Japan, and a recent UNESCO Award of Merit. Louis Moinet creations often make use of unusual materials, such as fossils and meteorites, combined with bespoke fine watchmaking complications in a unique creative approach. The brand’s core values are creativity, exclusivity, art and design.
