ALEXANDRE MARTIN – Reference 1965 Gold Dial Grey Grand Feu Enamel 38mm Steel Edition 2026
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There are watches you look at, and others that tell a story. The Reference 1965 belongs to the second kind, an object designed to offer, to those who take the time to look closely, a story of passion and elevation.
Choosing reality over draft
Rather than unveiling his project through computer-generated images, Alexandre Martin chose to fund and build, with his own hands, a first fully functional prototype.
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Two years of work were needed to give shape to a real object, one that can be held and touched, rather than a rendering that can only be imagined. This demand for authenticity echoes a deeper choice.
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After years devoted to complications, Alexandre Martin wanted, for this first piece, to take the opposite path, that of simplicity.
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Hours, minutes and a small seconds hand are enough, so that nothing distracts the eye from the proportions, the construction of the movement, and the quality of the finishing. This sobriety carries a name, Horlogerie d'émotion.
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From the workshop in Morges, Switzerland, emerges a finished prototype, not an intention. The name of the 1965 carries this same sincerity. It refers to the birth year of someone very dear to Alexandre Martin. This first creation pays tribute to his father, an antique furniture restorer and cabinetmaker who passed on the independent, artisanal passion that drives him today.
A dial celebrating the spirit of the peaks and the art of flight
The design of the 1965 owes much to the mountains, to flight, to that sense of elevation and lightness that Alexandre Martin cultivates as another passion, on equal footing with watchmaking.
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It is in the dial that this story takes shape. The railway minute track, in subtle relief, traces a direction, like a path the eye follows, one that points the way to the rest of the story. The white gold indexes rise with the lightness of flight. The hands count time with the precision of a measured ascent.
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Even the small seconds, a grand feu enamel on a white gold base crafted by Anita Porchet’s atelier, reveals a play of proportions and volumes that gives the whole a depth that is almost topographic, and a sense of stillness, like a motionless lake.
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The 1965 stands on its own, yet offers, to those who wish to look closer, a more intimate reading, down to its buckle, a piece of jewelry in its own right, sculpted by the wind and conceived as the memory of a journey.
The case and the movement
Designed with restrained proportions, the 38mm diameter stainless steel case, has a total thickness of 9.35 mm, including the sapphire crystals on both the dial and case-back sides. A detail, on the case, at 9 o'clock evokes a summit. Its inner bezel is polished entirely by hand, a discreet yet demanding gesture that extends into the case the same attention to detail found on the dial.
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The case houses a caliber that takes as its starting point the architecture of a vintage CYMA 586 movement, a proven kinematic chosen not to be restored but to be reimagined. Its components have undergone extensive reconstruction.
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A fully reworked winding and time-setting system, a click mechanism designed to prevent the tension caused by manual winding, a newly developed barrel to increase the power reserve, a variable-inertia balance wheel, an aesthetic and architectural work carried out down to the smallest details. Nothing here is added merely as decoration. Every finishing is part of the construction itself.
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In keeping with the goal of preserving and passing on artisanal know-how, bevels are hand-finished down to the inward angles shaped with a file, steel components are black polished by hand, and every surface is finished by hand with the same care, whether visible or hidden once the movement is assembled.
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For production, each component is remanufactured and recalculated to meet the project's requirements, and it is in this refusal to take shortcuts that the artisanal character of the approach is, perhaps, best expressed.
Twelve pieces
The first series of the Reference 1965 will be limited to twelve pieces in steel. Twelve, a number that was not chosen at random.
It is the age Alexandre Martin was when his path as a watchmaker took shape. At launch, the twelve pieces have not yet been allocated.
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Alexandre Martin wants first to take the time to meet collectors, to present the prototype to them in person, and, above all, to build a relationship. Those interested are invited to join a list. Allocations will then be made in due course, without haste.
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The Reference 1965 will be priced at CHF 65,000 excluding tax, with deliveries beginning in 2027.
About ALEXANDRE MARTIN
Alexandre Martin is an independent watchmaking workshop established in Morges, Switzerland, by 🇧🇪Belgian watchmaker Alexandre Martin. True to an artisanal and deliberately limited production, the house carries on the traditional know-how of fine watchmaking. Its philosophy rests on one simple idea, to give every watch an identity, a story, and a genuine emotional dimension.
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Model: Alexandre Martin - Reference 1965
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Case
Material: 3-part stainless steel
Polished concave bezel
Diameter: 38 mm
Thickness: 9.35 mm
Lug to lug: 46.8 mm
Water-resistant to 5 ATM
Dial
Grey dial - Grand feu enamel on the white gold base
Railway minute track
White gold indexes
Small seconds subdial at 6 o'clock
Movement
Based on a historical CYMA 586 architecture, entirely redeveloped and remanufactured
Manual winding movement
Frequency: 18 000 vibrations per hour
Number of jewels: 19
Finishes
Each component is individually decorated by hand, in keeping with traditional watchmaking craftsmanship
Bridges: Hand-frosted bridges with hand-polished bevels
Wheels: Circular-grained with hand-polished bevels
Crown wheel & ratchet wheel: Beveling, snailing and central polished sink
Pallet fork: Hand-polished bevels and black polished
Steel components: Black polished
Functions
Hours and minutes
Small seconds
Strap
Grey calfskin leather strap
Dimensions: 19 mm at the lugs / 16 mm at the buckle
🔴 Price: VAT for CHF 65,000 / EUR 68’000 / USD 69'100 (incl. taxes)💰
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