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WatchDossier

Sergio Galanti

A cultural journal for independent mechanical watchmaking, featuring essays, dispatches, and collector insights. We focus on philosophy, craft, and cultural relevance over industry hype, building a canonical archive of independent horology.

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Latest Issues

Against the Grain

Available at bookstores Pile of Books and Never Stop Reading in Zurich, or directly from WatchDossier.

To express your interest write an email to [email protected].


8 days ago

WatchDossier Issue 21 - 2026

At a Breguet anniversary sale in Geneva, the auction is described — before the first lot is called — not as a market but as a tool for enhancing the brand, and in saying so the speaker quietly compromises the independence the tool depends o...

17 days ago
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THE CLASSIFIEDS (BUT NOT REALLY) Vol. 12

You won’t find full specs here. You will find intent, posture, poetry. These are horological classifieds for new releases from independents — announcements, invitations, provocations — interpreted for the collector’s subconscious.


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17 days ago

An Apology for the Harmonious Oscillator

The Rudis Sylva RS11 was unveiled at Watches & Wonders 2026.

I am the part that works.

This needs saying at the outset, because a great deal happens in this watch, and most of it does not work in any sense physics would recognise. The pur...

17 days ago
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The Legitimacy Machine

On December 3, 2025, the Corriere della Sera published a short piece about a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva. The occasion was A Celebration of Breguet’s 250th Anniversary — seventy-three lots, hammer prices that climbed to 1.88 million Swiss f...

17 days ago
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    Swiss-based luxury watch writer and Editor of WatchDossier, exploring horology’s cultural and philosophical depths. Author of Against the Grain: A Cultural History of Swiss Independent Watchmaking.

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