Where the Stone Meets the Street

The real Champs Élysées isn't what you see on postcards. It's loud, fast-moving, and completely alive. But if you step back for a second, there's an effortless elegance to this avenue that you can't find anywhere else in the world. It's that exact atmosphere that inspired us from day one.

I'm out here walking the avenue with the new fish belly stone dial on my wrist, and pictures really don't do it justice. Every single one of these dials is cut from raw stone, meaning the surface texture is entirely unique.

Under the Paris sky, the look of the dial shifts completely depending on how you tilt your wrist. One second the veins in the stone look incredibly deep; the next, the surface catches the light and goes bright and smooth. It's subtle, it doesn't shout for attention, but you can't look away from it.

We only created 20 of these worldwide. That isn't a marketing strategy to fake exclusivity—that's just the reality of what this specific cut of rare stone gave us.

It's an incredible feeling wearing this piece on the very pavement that gave it its name, just weeks before it goes live. The movement was built with absolute Swiss precision in Neuchâtel, but the soul of this watch belongs entirely right here.