Ascension du Temps

Creation Details

Ascension du Temps stands at the intersection of heritage and vision. Revealed within the official Salon at Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025, this inaugural creation from the Astra Temporis collection signals a new direction in the Maison’s artistic journey, one where architecture, horology, and celestial geometry converge into a singular visual language.

Produced in a limited edition of 6 and 12 numbered pieces, each exemplar is individually signed, authenticated by the Maison’s seal, and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

The Story Behind

Ascension du Temps is a composition where time takes form not through movement, but through meaning. Each element is anchored in architectural permanence, guided by the same geometry that once governed celestial instruments. Here, the dial becomes a foundation, a stage where edifices rise with symbolic precision, echoing centuries of heritage.

Above this world, a zeppelin glides across a sky structured like a timepiece. Its course is charted by constellations and ancient markers, each one drawn from the silent codes of horology and the mathematics of ritual. Nothing accelerates. Nothing interrupts. The scene unfolds with the quiet order of a mechanism designed to endure.

A temple, a telescope, a dial. Each is placed with intent, each bears the trace of those who once measured time not to master it, but to elevate it. Geneva, suspended between lake and cosmos, becomes a site of transmission, a city where tradition is not preserved, but rearticulated with each generation.

Part of the Astra Temporis collection, this creation inaugurates a new visual language for the Maison. More than a landscape, it is a cultural artefact. A testimony to the idea that time, once understood, becomes architecture. And that architecture, once transcended, becomes ascent.

Cultural Significance

Presented within the official Salon at Watches and Wonders 2025, Astra Temporis collection marks a defining moment: the first time a Maison d’Art is invited to contribute to the legacy of fine watchmaking from within its most emblematic setting.

This inaugural presence lays the foundation for a new patrimony: one shaped by the visual codes of time, architecture, and celestial order. With each composition, the collection inscribes a chapter into the evolving history of horology, affirming its place among the cultural legacies born in Geneva.