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Nouvelle Horlogerie

Time Designers

What our community thinks of it

"You just created an infinite playground for watchmaking!"

The pope of Watchmaking

"This is not just about a good idea, this is what the industry need."

A renowned CTO

"I dream to put it in on my wrist."

A CEO we will not name

"We are writing history."

Pierre Coutaz

Nouvelle Horlogerie

Chapter 1: The Midnight Philosophers

Two brilliant minds collide in the sterile corridors of EPFL. Pierre and Guillaume, drawn together by an obsession that keeps them awake long past midnight, haunting empty physics labs with a question that consumes them: What if the most fundamental force in our universe—time itself—has been hiding in plain sight? Their late-night conversations spiral into dangerous territory, challenging everything traditional watchmaking taught them about the nature of time.

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Chapter 2: The Beautiful Failures

In a cramped workshop that smells of burnt electronics and dreams, two friends dance with disaster. Frame by frame, their failures mount—magnetic fields gone wrong, equations that crumble, prototypes that mock their ambitions. But in the space between one failed experiment and the next, between exhaustion and obsession, something extraordinary begins to emerge from the chaos. Sometimes the most beautiful discoveries come disguised as the most spectacular failures.

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Chapter 3: When Physics Became Poetry

The moment everything changed. In their hands, time stops being an abstract concept and becomes something alive, something that breathes and flows like liquid mercury catching light. Pierre and Guillaume stand witness to the impossible—watching time itself dance, knowing they've crossed a line that separates the world into before and after. Physics becomes poetry, and poetry becomes truth.

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Chapter 4: The Liquid Time Keepers

Armed with their secret, Pierre and Guillaume face their greatest challenge yet: convincing the world that wonder still exists. Their mission transcends mere timekeeping—they're not just building watches, they're building bridges between science and magic, between the laboratory and the human heart. They carry liquid time in their hands, and with it, the responsibility to share something the world has never seen before.

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