Ostervald

Watches

Origin: Tavannes valley, two-person atelier since 1998
Profile: Independent small series with hand winding. Every dial is grained by hand, at most 120 watches a year.
Design: Sector dials, bronze, visible handwork
Who it is for: Connoisseurs who prefer a workshop to a group
Materials: Bronze, steel, white gold, hand-wound calibres

Products (12)

Ostervald Atelier Regulator 40

Regulator with separate hours, minutes and seconds.

Like the workshop clocks once used to regulate other watches: a large central minute hand, hours and seconds in their own circles. Only 30 a year.

Category: Watches
Collection: Atelier
Price: €21,000

Ostervald Bronze Patine 40

Bronze case with an olive dial that ages with its wearer.

The workshop delivers the watch bright; the wearer makes the patina: after a few months the bronze turns matte, after years almost brown. To brighten it again, polish with lemon juice.

Category: Watches
Collection: Atelier
Price: €6,400

Ostervald Chronographe Atelier 40

Hand-wound chronograph finished by hand, 25 a year.

An old chronograph ébauche that the workshop strips, re-polishes and rebuilds with its own bridge shapes. That takes about three weeks per watch.

Category: Watches
Collection: Atelier
Price: €16,500

Ostervald Émail Champlevé 37

Champlevé enamel dial showing a Jura landscape.

Hollows are carved into a solid gold dial and filled with enamel, creating a landscape of firs, pasture and farm from the workshop's valley. Ten a year.

Category: Watches
Collection: Couleur
Price: €29,800

Ostervald Grenat 36

Small hand-wound watch with a garnet-red grained dial.

The colour is built up in seven layers of lacquer over a hand-grained base and looks almost black under artificial light. Made for people who do not want a watch like everyone else's.

Category: Watches
Collection: Couleur
Price: €6,300
Versions: Garnet and Fir green

Ostervald Grès 39

Dial with a sandstone texture in grained, fired brass.

Brass is grained, then fired in a kiln until it takes the colour of sandstone; each batch turns out slightly different. No date, no lume, only the surface.

Category: Watches
Collection: Couleur
Price: €6,200

Ostervald Heure Sautante Rétrograde 40

Jumping hour and retrograde minute, with no central hands at all.

The minute travels along an arc from 0 to 60 and then snaps back, at the same moment the hour jumps on in its window. A small show on every hour.

Category: Watches
Collection: Sautante
Price: €14,800

Ostervald Jumping Hour 39

Jumping hour in a window, minutes on a disc.

On the hour the numeral in the window jumps with an audible click; the minutes run on a semicircle. A playful complication without a huge price.

Category: Watches
Collection: Sautante
Price: €9,800

Ostervald Pierre 36

Dial made from a thin slice of stone, every pattern unique.

Malachite, onyx or tiger's eye is ground to 0.6 mm; any thinner and the stone breaks. Because every slice has its own pattern, you choose your watch from several stones.

Category: Watches
Collection: Couleur
Price: €8,400–€8,900
Versions: Malachite, Onyx and Tiger's eye

Ostervald Réserve 38

Hand-wound with three days' reserve and a copper dial.

A copper dial that darkens with the years and a power reserve shown as a narrow arc. The workshop suggests winding on Sunday evening; it then runs until Wednesday.

Category: Watches
Collection: Atelier
Price: €7,400

Ostervald Secteur 34

Small sector watch with a two-tone, hand-grained dial.

The 1930s sector dial in 34 mm: silver outside, salmon inside, each zone hand-grained. The two watchmakers assemble every watch entirely themselves.

Category: Watches
Collection: Secteur
Price: €5,600

Ostervald Secteur 38

Hand-wound with a sector dial, grained by hand.

The sectors are alternately grained and polished, and a fan appears in raking light. Each watch carries the initials of the person who assembled it. Bronze develops a brown patina over time.

Category: Watches
Collection: Secteur
Price: €4,900–€5,400
Versions: Bronze and Steel, blue sector

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