everything starts with some sketches ...

The independent brand Julien Coudray , born in 2009, is unusual in the world of Swiss watchmaking ... Everything is done in-house , in Le Locle , so almost artisanal and small series production ... should also not exceed tens watch next year! That is to say ...
Whether the already iconic 1528 or the new "sport" ( titanium or titanium and rose gold ) while inevitably starts a few pencil lines. To record these ideas , Fabien Lamarche has been making a big, thick leather-bound book with inside , a beautiful drawing paper . This is where he recorded his findings , sketches , plans , desires ... Ideas and concepts were written with pen and pencils drawings and sketches !

Fabien is Lamarche who is the head of this brand . Engineer, watchmaker, designer and inventor " Gearloose ," it is he who imagines in his widely -lit desk, which gives a good part of the year on a snowy hill , the various models of (case , hands , dials , bracelet, ring , etc. . ) and of course , their sizes ...
   
On a beautiful page Vellum paper , one can discover with amazement , the birth of a dial on another , different ideas needles on yet another, the details of a new concept of chrono entirely written in pen a beautiful writing. Further , the design of a bird that will adorn a grand feu enamel dial . Or detail of a wheel that will come to him , integrate later, a template made ​​entirely of precious metal , gold or platinum and titanium now .
 
This book is full of ideas and projects. Some already made , others become ... This " book town ", which will one day become "book - archive " is the starting point for all models and all the young Julien Coudray ... manufacture calibres where everything begins a simple drawing . By a small sketch ...


The first timepiece of this first collection Julien Coudray 1518 was baptized Manufactura 1528 Limited Edition. This shows a conventional bill and size . All models are made in limited editions in gold ( yellow, pink or gray) or platinum. Something far less common ... all sizes are made ​​of the same metal as the box! Clearly, the movements are gold or platinum ! 30 grams of gold in addition to the weight of the box. The sapphire crystal allows for him to admire the exhaust and a plate decorated by hand.
 

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Julien Coudray few words
Recall that Julien Coudray is a French watchmaker sixteenth century , a native of Blois, who worked for François 1er . According to some sources , it would even be at the origin of the pocket watch he had invented in 1518 ... Today , Julien Coudray is an independent Swiss watch manufacture located in Le Locle .
 
Julien Coudray 1518 brand is the term "manufacture" insofar as it manufactures almost all the components it produces watches , sapphire crystal and leather bracelet except spiral but included. In all, forty people work to achieve these parts still come in dribs and drabs !
 

The dial , grand feu enamel is provided with blued hands . Recall that the grand feu enamel ( durable material that is resistant to oxidation ) is a sensitive technique that requires many years of experience. To produce a single dial, five to seven passages in the oven at temperatures near 800 degrees are necessary for optimal rendering . To avoid distortion, the enamel dial is enhanced by a layer of enamel against its underside. Work all the more delicate the piece may crack or turn each time the oven !
 
The dial is all the more complicated it is to be machined here consists of a circular central part in grand feu enamel and eleven index also grand feu enamel displaying the hours in Roman numerals. All meticulously placed on a gold background . The index is reserved 8am individual number engraved hand watch.