Greubel Forsey
- Founded
- 2004
- Based in
- La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- In our catalog
- 1 watch from $350,000 to $420,000
Greubel Forsey makes watches that push the limits of both invention and finishing. Its founders took the tourbillon, an eighteenth-century device meant to improve accuracy, and asked how it could work better on a wrist. The answers are dramatic, three-dimensional movements finished by hand to a degree that few brands can match.
History
Robert Greubel from Alsace and Stephen Forsey from England met while working at Renaud & Papi, a high-complication workshop. In 2004 they founded Greubel Forsey and launched the Double Tourbillon 30°, which uses one tourbillon inside another, with the inner one tilted at 30 degrees.
Since then the workshop has developed a series of inventions, including the Tourbillon 24 Secondes (an inclined tourbillon that turns once every 24 seconds), a quadruple tourbillon and a chiming watch. Greubel Forsey makes only around a hundred watches a year.
Signature models
- Tourbillon 24 Secondes: An inclined tourbillon that rotates faster than a standard one, showing off the brand's technical approach.
- Double Tourbillon 30°: The first watch, with two tourbillons, one inside the other.
- Hand Made 1: A watch in which nearly every part was made by hand, without modern machinery.
What it's known for
Greubel Forsey movements are sculptural, with tourbillons placed where you can see them and every surface finished by hand.
Price and positioning
Greubel Forsey watches cost from several hundred thousand dollars into the millions. It's in the same league as Richard Mille and Philippe Dufour in terms of price, but with a more traditional, craft-led approach.
Greubel Forsey watches in our library
- Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes ($350,000 to $420,000)