Gérald Genta is the only Haute Horlogerie brand that offers exclusively complicated movements combined with avant-garde design.
The Gérald Genta manufacture designs and produces its own complication movements.
The production of Gérald Genta watches is limited and owning one is a guarantee of exclusivity.
Movement Signature
Gérald Genta movements are hand-decorated according to traditional watchmaking craftsmanship.
The movement parts are manufactured, drawn and bevelled by hand.
The concentric circular graining performed by hand and the old gold colour KC 2900 are specific to Gérald Genta movements.
Circular graining is applied by hand to the bridges and plates in concentric circles, on both the visible and invisible sides, the size of the circles being adapted to each part of the movement and the centre always completed with a half-circle.
The rotors are made of hand-beaten 18K gold; circular-grained or satin-finished and cut out to form the brand-symbol letter G.
Know-how
The Gérald Genta brand offers watches fitted exclusively with complicated movements.
Gérald Genta is one of the rare brands to produce its own tourbillon movements.
Gérald Genta is one of the only manufacturers in the world to design and produce Grande Sonnerie movements.
At Gérald Genta, we have the exclusive know-how to enable us to service or repair our watches produced since the brand was created in 1969 and will do so for years into the future.
For a watchmaker, long months of training are required to achieve the perfect mastery necessary to produce a Gérald Genta Grand Complication watch.
The Gérald Genta Grande Sonnerie is an undisputed “Haute Horlogerie” masterpiece and stamped with the prestigious Poinçon de Genève quality hallmark.
The Gérald Genta master-watchmakers train those who in turn will
take over, passing on every last detail of their know-how with passion
and thus ensuring the brand’s continuity.
The Gérald Genta Manufacture is established in the Vallée de Joux, cradle of the Swiss watchmaking art.
The head office of Gérald Genta and the Poinçon de Genève workshop.
Research and development
A creative thinktank of passionately dedicated technicians and designers whose mission is to develop innovative timekeeping mechanisms.
The jumping hour retrograde minutes function is a key to the Gérald Genta collections.
A Grande Sonnerie with an inverted mechanism allows us to admire the graceful movement of the hammers striking the hours and quarters through the open dial, a feat of ingenuity that makes this timepiece unique in the world.
On the brand’s 25th anniversary in 1994, Gérald Genta created the first automatic Tourbillon Grande Sonnerie wristwatch movement with four-strike Westminster chime and perpetual date calendar, a watch that is recognised by collectors as the most complicated in the world.
Gérald Genta is the first brand to offer four retrograde functions and a jumping hour on an automatic chronograph movement: the Arena Quattro Retro.
The Octo Incontro, or the bold combination of Fine Watchmaking with digital technology.
The transparent sapphire tourbillon bridge allows us to fully admire the tourbillon carriage.
Quality control
Our Watchmakers inspect and personally sign every stage of the manufacturing
process of our timepieces.
Technical and aesthetic controls are carried out on all external and
internal components at every stage of the manufacturing process.
All our complication watches come with their own CTM (rating regularity)
test results.
Every Gérald Genta Grand complication watch is accompanied by
the personal stamp of the Master-Watchmaker who produced it.