Independent Watchmakers · 2026-04-02
Stéphane Pierre debuts with the double-retrograde L’Impétrant
The French independent’s first watch combines jumping retrograde hours and minutes with a hand-wound in-house movement in a 39mm titanium case.
By Chronolume digest · Original English summary · Based on Monochrome
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French watchmaker Stéphane Pierre’s first model, L’Impétrant, displays time through two jumping retrograde hands: hours on the left and minutes on the right. A small-seconds indication sits centrally, while power reserve is shown by a conical display on the front and a hand on the back. The Grade 23 titanium case measures 39mm across and 10.8mm thick before the crystal.
The hand-wound movement was developed in-house and comprises 295 components, 22 jewels and a large 11.5mm balance running at 3Hz with a Breguet overcoil. Its 70-hour reserve is paired with a Maltese-cross stopwork system intended to use the most stable portion of the mainspring’s torque. Monochrome reported a pre-tax price of CHF 84,000, with an initial subscription series of 15 pieces preceding a broader run of 50 titanium watches.