News | Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry

Timepiece brand Krayon has captured prizes and acclaim, and beginning this month, will offer their creations at Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry in Silicon Valley.

Swiss independent watchmaking is a community that is both diverse and interconnected—two qualities that led us to one of our latest additions, Cyrus watches. Seeing them for the first time in our cases, you will immediately be struck by their bold design, typified by the cushion-shaped Klepcys case, which often features open works dial formats and a wide range of complications.

Now, for the first time in the United States, Bulgari’s eight world record setting watches will be on display at Stephen Silver’s Rosewood Sand Hill boutique in Menlo Park, CA, during the last two weeks of May 2022. Visitors will get a chance to see the company’s latest achievement, the Octo Finissimo Ultra—the thinnest mechanical watch ever created—for the very first time.

Unconventionality and rarity are values we try to uphold at Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry and make Speake-Marin a natural fit for our collection of independent watchmakers. With their singular appearance and attractive prices, they make a great selection either as a first delve into independent watchmaking or as a love-at-first-sight addition to your collection.

The movement itself in Greubel Forsey’s latest creation, the Double Balancier Convexe is not exactly new. But everything else about the watch is, and that is what is indeed revolutionary about the new timepiece. The look, detailing—the very mood of the watch—is reflective of a new design personality: younger, more active, and frankly, far sexier than before.

Imagine if you will, a new Ressence watch that is simpler than before and if anything, a purer expression of the kind of timekeeper designer Beniot Mintiens intended all along. This is the essence of the new Type 8C, first of an entirely new product family from the Belgian-designed, Swiss-built independent maker.

The versatility of the UR-100 model needs no further proof than the multiple editions that have been brought to life since Urwerk first introduced the watch in 2019. By adding a case cover over the satellite system, Urwerk has discovered a new dimension of aesthetic possibilities. Hence the latest UR-100V Time and Culture I promises to be the first of a family of themed watches, each exploring man’s historical relationship with time.

Angelus, the sporty Swiss watch brand which has just joined the lineup at Stephen Silver, is today a specialist in ultra-modern skeleton tourbillon wristwatches. Unlike so many pieces in this genre, they are not modified from existing watch movements but conceived from the beginning to realize an outstanding open-worked and balanced architectural quality.

Roger Dubuis. The brand’s latest Excalibur Monobalancier has an enviable list of features: a skeleton automatic movement, rubber strap and a case executed in a unique—and white—high-tech material.

Northern Jura watchmaker Louis Erard has managed to find a completely original way to present a mid-century classic design: the sector dial with subsidiary seconds. To do so it has turned to extreme subtlety, which is an all-too-rarely used tactic in the Swiss design playbook.

By selectively draining the color from the dial, Ressence has turned its Type3 BBB timepiece into an even more striking piece of design—a large drop of black ink that sits on your wrist and intrigues you as you stare into its depths. The watch seems at once limitlessly deep with indications you can almost touch on the surface. The effect is even more readily apparent in the monochrome design of the new type3 BBB watch.

Visitors to the Stephen Silver boutique at the Rosewood may notice an almost familiar presence in the watch cases, that of Swiss complication specialist Arnold & Son.