HALLERS· 1893 ·
Time, considered.
For one hundred and thirty-three years, a small atelier in the Jura mountains has shaped movements by hand — wheel by wheel, jewel by jewel. We do not make many. We make few, very well.
The Collections
Three movements. Three temperaments. Each made in our atelier in La Chaux-de-Fonds, each finished by a single watchmaker from first wheel to final regulation.
Compteur
ChronographA column-wheel chronograph descended from our 1947 racing calibre. Triple-counter, tachymeter, in-house HM-21.
Soleil
DressThe dress watch in its quiet form. Two hands, hand-guilloché sunburst dial, 7.4 mm of considered restraint.
Météore
Limited EditionSkeletonised tourbillon in white gold. Dial cut from a Sikhote-Alin meteorite. Each numbered, each its own world.
The Movement
- 01Mainplate
- 02Mainspring
- 03Gear train
- 04Escapement
- 05Balance wheel
The Soleil 38
"A quiet thing on the wrist. A loud thing in the heart."
The Soleil 38 is the resting form of HALLERS: a dress watch shaped by absence. Two hands. No date. A guilloché dial caught between ivory and gold, finished by a single craftsman across four sittings.
- Case
- Stainless steel · 38 mm · 7.4 mm thick
- Crystal
- Box sapphire · domed · AR coating both sides
- Dial
- Hand-guilloché sunburst · ivory lacquer
- Movement
- Hallers Calibre HM-14
- Calibre
- Manual-wind · 21 jewels · 28,800 vph
- Power reserve
- 60 hours
- Water resistance
- 30 m · 3 ATM
- Strap
- Alligator · hand-stitched · pin buckle
One hundred and thirty-three years.
Four moments that decided the maison. The rest was patience, and the rest was steady hands.
- Step 011893
The Founding
Émile Haller opens a single-bench atelier on the Rue Daniel-JeanRichard, La Chaux-de-Fonds. He hires no one for the first nine years. The first calibre, HM-01, leaves the bench in 1896 — a pocket watch he sells to the doctor downstairs.
- Step 021947
First Chronograph
After the war, Émile's grandson Pierre returns from the Geneva Observatory and introduces the Calibre HM-07, a column-wheel chronograph. It wins the Concours de Chronométrie three years in a row. The Compteur collection is born.
- Step 031989
Reborn after Quartz
By the late seventies the maison has nearly closed. In 1989, six former HALLERS watchmakers buy the workshop back from a Japanese conglomerate and refuse to make a single quartz piece. They are mocked, and then they are not.
- Step 042018
In-House Calibre
After twenty-nine years of restoration, the maison releases its first wholly in-house movement since 1968 — the HM-21. Every wheel, every spring, every jewel cut and finished within the four walls of the atelier.
Eighteen pairs of hands.
The workshop has not moved since 1893. Three floors, one staircase, and a window that looks out over the same Jura ridge Émile saw the morning he began.
Today, eighteen watchmakers share that staircase. Five came from Patek, four from Vacheron, three were trained at our own bench. The rest stayed because they had nowhere else they wished to go.
Five rooms, worldwide.
We keep our boutiques small. A single watchmaker is on the bench at each location, to service and to listen.
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Geneva
Rue du Rhône 421204 Geneva · Switzerland+41 22 318 14 93 - 02
Paris
8 Rue de la Paix75002 Paris · France+33 1 42 60 18 93 - 03
London
12 Mount StreetMayfair, London W1K · UK+44 20 7493 1893 - 04
New York
667 Madison AvenueNew York, NY 10065 · USA+1 212 988 1893 - 05
Tokyo
Ginza 6-9-1Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 · JP+81 3 6228 1893
Write to the Maison.
We answer every letter by hand. Expect a reply within five working days from a member of the workshop — not a salesperson.