As the holiday season approaches, Christmas gifting takes center stage. There are multiple options. These products would make a perfect fit for everyone to elevate their celebrations with style and grace. This season, let us make Christmas merrier and parties full of glam! Check out our list of exquisite and limited edition luxury clocks that can be the perfect Christmas gift!
Grenade is a mechanical masterpiece combining clockmaking excellence with a call to “pull the pin and live for now!”
L’Epée 1839’s Grenade is a revolutionary desk and mantel clock inspired by the MKII grenade. With a design mirroring the explosive device, Grenade’s pin, akin to the grenade’s fuse, activates the clock for time setting and winding. Pulling the pin focuses the mind on the present, emphasizing the value of each second. By adjusting time and winding the mainspring, Grenade urges mindfulness, compelling you to savor each fleeting moment. Crafted by master watchmakers, this clock transcends mere functionality, offering a captivating and immersive experience that challenges conventional perceptions of timekeeping . Price on request Grenade is a limited edition of 99 pieces in each colours. The first set of colors are: 50 Shades of Grey, Pink Coral Reef, Deep Blue, Wild Blue Yonder, Emerald Glade, Green Forest Dawn, Red October, Purple Rain, and Black Raven
TIME MACHINE
If you could choose, would you travel into the future or the past?
L’Epée 1839, with over 179 years of timekeeping expertise, unveils its latest creation, the ‘Time Machine.’ This futuristic table clock, inspired by film aesthetics and classic mechanics, is a kinetic sculpture that transcends traditional timekeeping. The upper part rotates with a single press, setting the entire time capsule, including the glass tube, carriage, time display, and mechanical movement, into motion. Two propellers wind the movement and adjust the time, while a stable tripod ensures safe take-offs and landings. With 370 components and an 8-day power reserve, the Time Machine is a 22 cm high, 26 cm wide mechanical marvel, offered in limited editions of silvered, black and silvered, and black and gold, each comprising 50 pieces. The Time Machine is produced in three limited editions of 50 pieces each: silvered, black and silvered, and black and gold.
Hot Balloon
Time Takes Flight: The First Suspended Clock
L’Épée 1839 introduces “Hot Balloon,” a unique mechanical clock symbolizing adventure and whimsy. Created in collaboration with ECAL’s design student Margo Clavier, the clock, inspired by hot air balloons, showcases a floating presence and displays hours and minutes for eight days. This artistic timepiece, with 207 in-house components, can be placed on a table or suspended from the ceiling, offering a blend of design, engineering, and watchmaking art. Winding and setting are ingeniously done through the balloon’s basket and crown, providing a poetic and exceptional addition to L’Épée 1839’s collection.
Hot Balloon was been created in a limited edition of 50 pieces for each model: Palladium, Black and Palladium, Blue and Palladium, Red and Palladium, or Gold.
LA TOUR
Modern variations on transparency
Well-versed in horological complications and specialized in high-end clocks, L’Epée 1839 proposes a varied collection of modern table clocks called La Tour. Their sophisticated design, eight-day skeleton movement, and play on transparency and light unite around one key theme: simplicity. As clockmaking is not the simplest of art forms, L’Epée has grappled with numerous constraints on its road to creating the very best, successfully adapting its designs to technical complexities. La Tour is inspired by the architectural currents of the early 1920s, with their minimalist approach. The collection’s design is based on ideas from the Bauhaus, an artistic movement built around the creative principle that “function dictates form”. As such, a succession of geartrains dictates the various curves of the plates to form a single, uncluttered whole: the skeleton movement. Having recently adopted the famous expression “Less is More”, La Tour is the perfect illustration of the 20th century’s modernist wave, which paved the way for many of today’s pared-down creations.
REQUIEM L’Epée 1839 By Kostas Metaxas
Celebrate life with a kinetic sculpture that tells the time
L’Épée 1839 presents “Requiem,” a limited edition table clock created with designer Kostas Metaxas. Inspired by Memento Mori, it features a skull design in cast aluminum, available in black or silver, with a palladium-plated or gold-plated brass movement. The internally designed 1853 HMD caliber offers an 8-day power reserve and displays time through two transparent discs in the eye sockets. The clock, measuring 19 cm in height and weighing 2 kg, represents a fusion of artistry and technical innovation, urging contemplation of life and time. The first piece in the new Skull artistic collection, L’Épée 1839 deliberately wanted this emblematic table clock to remain sober, modern and visually delicate.
Requiem is a limited edition of 50 pieces per configuration: black skull and golden movement, or aluminum skull and palladium movement (silver color).
Space Module
A modular weather measurement instrument to conquer the stars
L’Épée 1839 introduces “Space Module,” a Swiss-made weather instrument inspired by lunar modules. Developed for space exploration, it features hygrometer, barometer, and thermometer sensors for data capture on distant planets. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and L’Épée 1839’s 180th anniversary, this mechanical weather station, created by designer Martin Bolo, reflects the brand’s legacy in space-themed timepieces. Weighing 3.8 kg and with a diameter of 25 cm, it offers a versatile and balanced stature for various environments. Space Module is a limited edition of 50 pieces, available in gilded and silver-
colored versions.
TIME FAST – CHROME EDITION
Race cars meet Swiss watchmaking
L’Epée 1839 x ECAL – Georg Foster
L’Epée 1839 continues its Time Fast legacy with the creation of two new limited
editions in Chrome! They include the Silver Chrome Time Fast and the Gold Chrome Time Fast. The Time Fast is a vintage-inspired 1950’s F1 race car that is a kinetic sculpture and modern clock all in one. The Time Fast was designed in collaboration with Georg Foster, ECAL (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne) and L’Epée 1839.
The Time Fast features a number of eye-catching details from the 1950’s F1 era.
They include the long protruding engine hood, the iconic radiator grill, the large
spoked wheels, the rear driving seat positioning and the sloping tail section. Its
overall sporty feel is reinforced by its elegant design, flawless finishes, fluid lines and these two newly created Body Chrome Color’s.
TIME FAST D8
Race cars meet Swiss watchmaking
L’Epée 1839 x ECAL – Georg Foster
L’Épée 1839 presents “Time Fast,” a vintage-inspired race car and modern clock designed by Georg Foster in collaboration with ECAL. This kinetic sculpture, featuring classic 1950s details, combines elegant design with flawless finishes. The Time Fast D8 houses an in-house caliber with a 192-hour power reserve, displaying hours and minutes on the chassis. The three-spoke steering wheel sets the time, and the winding mechanism mimics a pull-back car. With 289 precise mechanical components, this 4.7 kg race car clock promises pure pleasure and sensations, measuring 38 cm long, 16 cm wide, and 12 cm high. Time Fast D8 is a limited edition: 100 pieces per body color, initially produced in Red, Blue, Green, Blue with white stripes and White with blue stripes versions.
Time Fast II by L’Epée: Life in the Fast Lane!
Time Fast II, inspired by 1960s racing sports cars, is a 2-seater clock with two movements—one for time and one for the engine automate. The aluminum body mimics the high-tech material of that era. The time movement displays hours and minutes through rotating stainless steel disks, while the engine automate, triggered by a dashboard key, features a V8 with pistons moving independently. The meticulous attention to detail, from the three-spoke steering wheel to the stainless-steel spoked wheel rims, captures the essence of vintage racing cars. Winding is done with a manual gear lever, offering a nostalgic and accurate tribute to the golden era of long-distance automotive competition.
TIME FLIES – BOARDING NOW
TIME FLIES by L’Epée 1839 pays homage to aviation and the adventurous spirit of flying. Designed in collaboration with l’ECAL, it resembles a stylized 1930s plane, offering a minimalist form that sparks imagination. The 8-day clock features large stainless steel disks for hours and minutes, with a skeletonized movement showcasing escapement precision in the cockpit. The architecture mimics a real airplane, with a fully openworked crown resembling engine cooling radiators. The horizontal precision regulator and freely spinning propeller add nostalgic charm. Weighing three kilograms, TIME FLIES stands stable on a three-wheel landing train. An optional mounting stand enhances its visual impact.
