Dubai Watch Week 2025: Laurent Ferrier Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary With The Classic Origin Beige
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The Classic Origin by Laurent Ferrier first came out in 2020 as a celebration of the brand’s tenth anniversary. At the Dubai Watch Week 2025, the brand revered for its understated designs and masterful craftsmanship, marks its fifteenth anniversary with a stunning reinterpretation: the Classic Origin Beige. This celebratory piece builds on the Maison's enduring design values, offering a canvas where balance, minimalism, and modernity converge in perfect poise.
Elegant Simplicity, Refined For Today
The Classic Origin Beige debuts in the familiar 40 mm Classic case inspired by the gentle lines of river-smoothed stone. For the first time, this collection sees the use of 5N red gold - a lustrous, warmly hued metal paired with an opaline beige dial. The result is a watch that radiates both vintage charms and contemporary refinement via its subtle palette that creates a soft yet distinctive profile on the wrist.
Laurent Ferrier’s signature minimalist ethos is on full display in the new Classic Origin Beige. Warm brown accents mark the sector minute track, central cross, and hour indices, while touches of red animate the numerals for the minutes and the small seconds at six o’clock. Elegant 18k gold Assegai hands sweep across the dial, offering not just clarity but a sense of serene movement. In this refined creation, each element is chosen for both form and function.
A detail impossible to overlook is the bulbous rounded crown. More than a signature feature, it offers an inviting tactile experience for the wearer and winding the watch becomes a ritual that must be savored rather than rushed.
Horological Purity Under The Surface
Turn the watch over, and the display case back reveals the LF116.01 caliber, a hand-wound movement embodying the Maison's relentless pursuit of precision and finishing. It gets a screw balance coupled with a Breguet-style overcoil hairspring to ensure remarkable accuracy, minimizing the impact of tiny positional changes and delivering peerless timekeeping precision.
For collectors, the true delight lies in the signature long-blade ratchet pawl. Polished and chamfered by hand, it emits a crisp, refined click serving an auditory signature of true haute horlogerie. Once wound, the movement delivers an impressive power reserve of over 80 hours.
Despite its minimalist appearance, the movement’s finishing is sublime and perceptible on its sandblasted bridges which get a black rhodium treatment, hand-polished angles and edges, mirror-polished screws, and intricate interior angling on the escapement bridge. In continuation of Laurent Ferrier’s obsession with decoration, every component of the Classic Origin Beige is meticulously finished by hand including those never intended for view.
Every Detail Counts
The Classic Origin Beige is completed with a plush mocha nubuck strap lined in Alcantara, securing to the wrist with a matching 5N red gold pin buckle. Here every decision, from material to color, is aimed at reinforcing the watch’s quiet luxury and cohesive design.
The Essence Of Lasting Beauty
Far more than an accessory, the Classic Origin Beige introduced by Laurent Ferrier at Dubai Watch Week 2025 stands as a testament to the brand’s unwavering vision and artisanship. It distills fifteen years of heritage into a contemporary format, demonstrating that true beauty is both unpretentious and enduring.
This is a watch that doesn’t just keep time, it quietly claims it, proving that some forms of elegance never fade but rather get richer with every passing moment.
