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WatchDossier

Sergio Galanti

A cultural journal for independent 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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WatchDossier Issue 24 - 2026

This issue assembles itself around a single move. It is old — Barthes named it in 1957 — and it is everywhere in the vitrine: take something decided, priced, and contingent, and let it harden into essence, into something that simply is. A c...

10 days ago

The Arithmetic of Independence: Interview with Oliver Ebstein, CEO of Chronoswiss

Oliver Ebstein came to watchmaking from banking and pharma, bought a company in trouble, and rebuilt it. Staying private, for him, is a strategy, not a sentiment.

The weekend the United States set its tariff on Swiss goods at 39 per cent,...

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THE CLASSIFIEDS (BUT NOT REALLY) Vol. 14

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.


T...

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The Coating Comes Off

In May, the Chapter 7 Skeleton arrived in anthracite PVD, a coating engineered to swallow light. This month it arrives with the coating gone. The steel beneath is what you now see. Everything else holds — the 40mm case, the Soprod P024, the...

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The Frame and the Invoice

The blue arrives before anything else. At the center a skeletal tourbillon turns beneath the domed crystal, the HYT monogram floating in its cage; around it the colour organises into rings — a pale cyan track hugging the mechanism, then a d...

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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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