Cutting edge

It is not often that a micro watch brand can boast its own manufacture, but that is only one of the many things that sets the Le Locle-based Cyrus watches apart. Established in 2010, with a tagline that promotes ‘Conquest of Innovation’, the brand focuses on high horology with a design edge. On offer are cushionshaped watches with double crowns and a 3D, layered dial design that is enhanced by complications like vertical tourbillons, double chronographs, a patented linear display of time, and retrograde date. Its Klepcys Mars features a 3D miniature of the planet, rotating a full Martian day every 24 hours, 37 minutes, and 22 seconds. In terms of materials, Cyrus’s unique pieces like the Klepcys Vertical Skeleton Tourbillon is crafted in sapphire and the recent Klepcys DICE Racing, in carbon fibre.
                             

Cyrus’s movements are the work of master watchmaker Jean-François Mojon, the founder of Chronode, an ideas accelerator known to design, develop, and produce movements. Mojon is the name behind some of the most creative watches today, including MB&F’s Legacy Cutting edge Machine Nº 1, Hermès’s Arceau L'heure de la Lune, Czapek’s Quai des Bergues, and the Harry Winston Opus X. Cyrus produces only 400 to 500 pieces a year, and is helmed by Walter Ribaga, who has had stints at TAG Heuer and Omega. All watches are limited editions, and the maximum that the brand has created of any model is 100 pieces. With most Cyrus models soon to be available in India, we caught up with Ribaga to know more about the brand, its timepieces, and the kind of aficionados that Cyrus watches will appeal to. WatchTime India: Cyrus watches’ tagline is ‘Conquest of Innovation’. Where does this come from and what does it mean for the brand? Walter Ribaga: Cyrus was the emperor of Babylonia, and the founding family that established the watch brand has a coin from that time. It is the same coin that is replicated at the back of some of the models. Cyrus was known to be a very social, very innovative emperor—he introduced coins to the Persian empire.

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