Atelier Millésime Launches the Monarque Diver with Vaucher Movement

Atelier Millésime takes charming elements of esteemed vintage watches from the 1930s, and the 1950s and '60s, combines them with more contemporary design cues, and significantly improves the final design over the original vintage sources of inspiration After a year of continuous refinement and improvement, and to celebrate their first anniversary and the resounding success of both models, Atelier Millésime this year launches three new models - the Monarque, a high-end diver; the Merveilleux Enamel, an elegant dress watch with choice of flinqué or champlèvé guilloché enamel dial; and the Merveilleux II, an improved and more refined version of the classic Merveilleux with a superior movement The Monarque is water-resistant to 200 meters, equipped with the refined Vaucher twin-barrel Calibre 3002 automatic movement, which has undergone CLA Chronometric certification and is encased in 316L hand-finished stainless steel, in either Racing Green or Azure fumée dials inspired by historical diving watches of the 1960s.

Buyers needn't worry that the use of a high-end movement will make servicing their watch costly or lengthy: servicing fees are reasonable and done at cost by Atelier Millésime, which has numerous service centers worldwide offering a quick 2-to-4-week turnaround The enamel dials of the Merveilleux Enamel are handcrafted in the traditional way, first with guilloché carved by hand, then painted in with color and fired multiple times in an enamel oven, with most of the resulting dials being rejected and only the very best selected for installation in a Merveilleux Enamel Merveilleux II.

The Merveilleux II uses the same stylishly slender case, and is now equipped with the Soprod M100 movement in its highest R4 grade, with a daily accuracy of 99.99%, or a tolerance of a mere four seconds per day The thinness of this exceptional movement allows the Merveilleux's case to be slimmer and more elegant than that of the Merveilleux I The Merveilleux Enamel is available in Ivory, Burgundy and Racing Green, priced at 2,780 Singapore dollars. Source