ASTRA TEMPORIS
ASTRA TEMPORIS
THE ARCHITECTURE OF TIME
Presented within the official Salon at Watches and Wonders 2025, Astra Temporis marks a visionary moment where architecture, symbolism, and celestial imagination converge under the aegis of the world’s most important horological gathering.
Each of its three emblematic compositions - Ascension du Temps, Heure du Monde, and Timeless Express - ventures beyond the realm of function. Here, time is no longer measured, it is constructed. Geometry becomes a syntax, mythology a blueprint, and every structure a vessel of memory shaped by the codes of watchmaking and wonder.
ASCENSION DU TEMPS
Time takes form through foundations carved in stone and symbols written in light. Each structure rises with intent, echoing a heritage where architecture and horology speak the same language. This is a landscape of elevation, where meaning is not built, but revealed.
Above, a zeppelin drifts in silence across a celestial dial, navigating constellations and forgotten codes. It follows no trajectory but one of clarity, where every element leads upward toward mastery, vision, and stillness. It is not height that defines ascent, but the clarity it reveals along the way.
TIMELESS EXPRESS
Through reverie and motion, Timeless Express traces an invisible track linking horological capitals - Geneva, Le Sentier, Le Locle - across oceans of memory. A dreamlike journey unfolds: a dial softened by recollection, a balloon rising beyond direction.
Here, the voyage outpaces the train. It is the moment that moves, expanding into light, bending into myth.
HEURE DU MONDE
Aviation reshaped geography. Heure du Monde charts a living cartography where icons of the world orbit in harmony. Suspended above, a historic Douglas DC-3 crosses a dial of global memory, each landmark a waypoint of ambition and cultural legacy.
Time zones become choreography, and the cities, etched in silhouette, map the dance between distance and meaning. It is not the world that moves, but time that finds shape through the presence of its icons.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
At Watches and Wonders 2025, Astra Temporis extends the legacy of watchmaking into the realm of cultural memory, shaping time through cadence, structure, and symbolism.
In this environment devoted to horological excellence, the presence of an independent Genevan Maison d’Art marks a cultural milestone.
Each composition speaks the language of cadence, elevation, and geometry. Rather than illustrating time, they articulate it, shaping duration into visual structure. Rooted in the codes of watchmaking and liberated from its literalism, Astra Temporis elevates artistic creation into a legacy artifact, poised to join the enduring cultural heritage of horology.