Laurent Ferrier: Galet Square Porcelain

“Galet”, a French term meaning “pebble”, is inextricably bound up with Laurent Ferrier. Galet is the name of the first collection from the Swiss manufacture, unveiled in 2010. For Laurent Ferrier, the Galet embodies the perfect integration of all case components, as if one were holding a pebble in one’s hand.

Today, the brand presents a special edition in the Galet collection, the Galet Square Porcelain Limited Edition, featuring an exceptional white porcelain dial and available only in ten pieces. The porcelain dial is extremely complex to produce and represents a true technical challenge: the discs are fashioned by hand from a kaolin-based substance. Once modelled and fired at 1400°C/2550°F, the white porcelain is coated with a layer of transparent enamel that gives it a beautiful gloss.

The Galet Square Porcelain Limited Edition maintains the aesthetic codes of the maison, but in this 41 x 41 mm size, the model is more powerfully present on the wrist than its predecessors.

The dial of this timepiece is adorned by ten anthracite Breguet type numerals and a scarlet red at 12 o’clock. The minute outer rail is complemented by gold circular minute dots for the minutes, four diamond-shape gold markers at 3, 6, 9 and 12 and smaller diamond-shape gold patterns for the tenths. White gold ruthenium treated “assegai-shaped” hands mark the hours and minutes and a baton-shaped hand indicates the seconds.

The in-house movement is a self-winding FBN 229.01 calibre, equipped with a unidirectional pawl-fitted micro-rotor and offering a three-day power reserve. It is fitted with a silicon escapement featuring a double direct impulse on the balance.

The finishes are performed in keeping with the finest watchmaking traditions. Alongside the Côtes de Genève motif on the bridges and the circular graining on the mainplate, the wheel spokes are bevelled, the screw heads are chamfered and polished and the interior angles are hand-crafted. (Price: €.54.000)