The Artisans Legal Notice
ARTISANS DE GENEVE is an independent workshop. On our website only, we offer a service of personalization of timepieces at the request of our customers within our limited capacities. We do not manufacture nor sell watches.
We are neither affiliated to nor authorized by the manufacturers of the client’s watches, that we accept to customize. They do not approve modifications or personalizations made to their products by unauthorized third parties
Therefore, our customization services are provided for personal and private use only. Any other use, in particular of a commercial nature, is not approved by ARTISANS DE GENEVE and will invalidate our warranty.
We are neither affiliated to nor authorized by the manufacturers of the client’s watches, that we accept to customize. They do not approve modifications or personalizations made to their products by unauthorized third parties
Therefore, our customization services are provided for personal and private use only. Any other use, in particular of a commercial nature, is not approved by ARTISANS DE GENEVE and will invalidate our warranty.
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Artisans De Genève is an independent watchmaking workshop offering handcrafted timepiece customization and restoration services. We are neither associated nor affiliated with the brands of the timepieces we work on.
We carry out our work at the sole request of our customers, on their own timepieces and for their private use only.
The work presented was commissioned by one of our customers.
This presentation reflects our know-how and has no contractual value.
Scona
Genesis
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Keeper of
my memories
Creativity has been at the heart of our workshop since its inception. Our work consistently involves bringing together memories and moments and translating them into the language of watchmaking. Through your own project, we combine different skills and crafts to bring these often intangible moments to life. By blending surprising colours with often-forgotten arts and crafts, we can, for a moment, bring to life old lacquering techniques and skills steeped in memories.
A word from our client: Mr A.L
My tribute to a free creative era
“My timepiece is undoubtedly a testament to my desire to create a personalised piece that combines vintage lifestyle codes with my passion for traditional watchmaking. I’ve always been fascinated by this era: the objects, the cars, the unique know-how but also the drive to be ever more creative. Customization provided me with a creative dimension where my only limit was my imagination. Bringing together a multitude of professions to realise my vision of my ideal watch was a timeless watchmaking experience.”Mr.A.L
A human-scale workshop
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Creating
uniqueness
out of many
Artisans de Genève embodies the fusion between people and watchmaking. A Maison where people share and rethink their watches together, according to their aspirations. In Geneva, all the traditional watchmaking crafts are brought together in a single location, offering a wide range of possibilities to meet the different needs and desires of all. In this dedicated setting, we hand-craft all the restorations, repairs and modifications which are carried out upon our client’s personal request.
Returning to our roots
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An Art dedicated
to others
Since its creation, L’Atelier has always worked to offer passionate clients more personal watchmaking. This is a return to the origins of the profession, where watchmakers devoted themselves to the individual desires of each client, according to their codes, their taste and their own background. In doing so, we’ve gone back to the roots of a calling where man, handicraft and tools were the definitive masters behind a client’s desires.
It’s all about your details:
a look at the various modifications
Focus on Scona modifications
Blue elegance
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lacca
smaltatura
To meet our client’s requirements, we had to go back to traditional techniques to rediscover the unique, patinated look of vintage cars. We were able to find these mythical lacquers in the province of Venice, Italy. The realization of the dial requires more than 7 layers of lacquer, each one grained, polished by hand and dried for 24 hours between each layer to obtain an unique domed mirror effect.
Focus on Scona modifications
Looking to the future
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Midnight blue
ceramic
A genuine bridge between the dial of yesteryear and the scratch-resistant materials of tomorrow, ceramic is the ideal material to guarantee resistance over time. For this unusual project, we had to develop a Ceranotte midnight-blue ceramic for our client, to delicately match the blue colour with cyan highlights typical of lacquer.
Focus on Scona modifications
Technicity & elegance
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Tradizionale
finish
Entirely hand-crafted, traditional finish based on our client’s own movement. The bridges are skeletonised and chamfered. Each screw is hand-polished and the balance-bridge mirror-polished before being flame-blued. The work on each movement is carried out individually and can be customised according to individual desires, finishes and colours.
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Other modifications
by our client
The balance-bridge
Shaped from a block of hardened steel, the deck is chamfered with a buff and file to give it a perfectly flat, shiny appearance. The black mirror polish is produced entirely by hand before being manually flame-blued.
Hands
The hands have been refined, chamfered and diamond-polished to give a retro effect, in keeping with the watches of the time. The counter and chronometer hands are polished and traditionally flame-blued.
The rotor
Made from a block of solid 21K white gold, we decorated it with 5 Côtes de Genève and chamfered it, before engraving it and bluing it with a midnight blue PVD treatment.
It’s all about your details:
Here are some examples of pastel colors that we found
during the research conducted for our client.
during the research conducted for our client.
INSPIRE
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Creative
watchmaking
Behind every personalization is the desire to stand out, to express oneself, to create a personal timepiece. An opportunity to have your object modified according to your choices, tastes and history, by women and men who dedicate their craftsmanship and experience to making every detail an essential element.
Realization
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A Witness to a
human adventure
Each client brings his or her own story, passions and desires. This makes our workshop a real meeting place dedicated to bringing about all of their desires. Our experiences of our clients’ projects are always never-ending sources of excitement, joy and unforgettable moments.
For us, The Scona adventure is a perfect example of a project born of passions and memories bringing together a multitude of Artisans to create the witness of an instant.
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The Specs
Base : 116500
Original dial modified : ltalian Belissima 290, silver counters
Original modified movement« Tradizionale Finish »
Steel balance bridge, mirror polished, flame-blued
H&M hands: refined, counters hands flame-blued
Crown-guard machining
Traditional polish
Waterproof clear case
Satin polishing of the bracelet and sandblasting of folding clasp.
Artisans De Genève is an independent watchmaking workshop offering handcrafted timepiece customization and restoration services. We are neither associated nor affiliated with the brands of the timepieces we work on.
We carry out our work at the sole request of our customers, on their own timepieces and for their private use only.
The work presented was commissioned by one of our customers.
This presentation reflects our know-how and has no contractual value.
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WRITE YOUR OWN STORY
Our craftsmen are at the service of all your inspirations.
