Geneva Watch Days 2025: Ferdinand Berthoud Unveils The Naissance d’une Montre 3 With A Human Touch

Naissance d’une Montre 3 is a horological heritage project with an important human dimension representing the culmination of six years’ work. The result is a timekeeper conceived for the wrist, officially chronometer-certified by the COSC and handcrafted using traditional tools, without digital assistance. Constant force via a fusee-and-chain transmission system, bimetallic balance, central seconds hand, open structure: its technical and aesthetic characteristics are deeply rooted in the heritage of the Master Watchmaker, Ferdinand Berthoud.

As expected, the 11 “Naissance d'une Montre 3” chronometers meet the same quality and finishing criteria as any other contemporary timepieces from Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud. They offer vivid proof that what truly counts is the journey rather than the destination – and that this journey is shaped by the passing of time, the “temps qui instruit” [Dedicated to time, the great teacher] in the words of Louis Berthoud, Ferdinand Berthoud’s nephew.

Naissance d’une Montre 3 aims to harness talents past and future, to gather their notes and sketches and to unite their knowledge in pursuit of a common goal: not the timepiece itself, but rather the preservation of all the expertise that brings it to life. It is clearly more important than ever to safeguard and transmit the traditional watchmaking skills required to produce mechanical timepieces. This cross-disciplinary corporate project draws on all the Maison’s in-house expertise and know-how: design and engineering, laboratory, foundry, mechanics, micromechanics, jewellery, polishing, decoration and watchmaking.