Watchmakers in Paris
7 stores · curated ORBIS register
Briston watches use acetate cases, compact proportions and interchangeable NATO-style straps with a collegiate tone. The Printemps counter is useful for judging case size and colour variation in person.
Paris watchmaker founded in 2014 by childhood friends Ambroise Parlos and Adrien Sanglé-Ferrière as a crowdfunded startup; assembly moved in-house in 2019, now built at its Saint-André-des-Arts workshop-boutique in the 6th arrondissement.
American accessible watches and leather — heritage-styled chronographs and hybrid smartwatches. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Louis Pion is a French multi-brand watch retailer covering accessible mechanical, quartz and smartwatches.
French watch brand founded 2009 by Alain Marhic (ex-Quiksilver) with Jerome Mage and Joseph Chatel, based between Biarritz and Los Angeles; the AM89 is a 38mm round automatic with a 1970s-inspired case.
Place Vendôme creativity since 1975 — interchangeable watch straps and the twisted Coeur Entrelacé.
Independent Swiss watchmaking house founded in Geneva in 1995 by Roger Dubuis (a former Patek Philippe designer) and Carlos Dias. Built its own Geneva manufacture by 2001, launched the Excalibur collection in 2005, and was acquired by Richemont in 2008.