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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 22 - 2026

Six essays in this issue. They were not written to a brief. Read together, they share a preoccupation none of them declares.

The preoccupation is the said and the unsaid. A dictionary of things one is supposed to say. A press release that...

17 days ago

Dictionnaire des idées reçues horlogères

A guide for the gentleman who wishes to be received in any boutique, salon, or forum as a person of taste, without the inconvenience of forming an opinion. Master these entries and you need never again risk an original thought before a deal...

17 days ago
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There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

The rain in Le Locle fell with a rhythmic persistence that no Swiss watchmaker had ever managed to regulate. Inside the centuries-old atelier of Maître Chronos, the atmosphere smelled of brass shavings, whale oil, and stubbornness. Chronos...

17 days ago
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The Painter's Bed

There are fourteen watches on the table in front of me. I am at a micro-brand fair in Milan, one of those events that occupy the borderland between entrepreneurial optimism and quiet homage. Every watch on this table has a tri-compax dial....

17 days ago
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On the Verb “To Develop”

Among the more elegantly deployed sentences in the press release for the new Hautlence Kubera Series 1, one stands out for the patient labour it performs on the reader’s behalf. “The jumping hours and peripheral minutes module,” the brand e...

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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