Four executions.
One calibre.
Each is limited not by marketing but by the number of bezels one setter can complete in a year.
Hélios Pavé Squelette — Ref. AV-1874, Maison AURVM
01 The Object
Six hundred hours of silence, then a heartbeat.
Every Hélios begins as a billet of 18-karat gold and ends as an instrument that measures the one thing you cannot buy back. Between those two states lie six hundred hours of work, performed by nine pairs of hands, in a room where no machine is permitted to make the final decision.
- 0Components,
each finished by hand - 0Pavé diamonds,
set under loupe - 0Power reserve,
single barrel
Ref. AV-1874 · 39.5 mm · 18k Yellow Gold · Sapphire, double AR
02 The Calibre
It opens the way a question opens.
The crown releases first. What follows is not disassembly but disclosure — the skeleton bridge, the free-sprung balance, the gear train whose logic has not changed since 1874. Only its tolerances have.
- Free-sprung balance28,800 vph
- Bridges, hand-anglé41 bevels
- Côtes de GenèveApplied by hand
- Certified positionsSix
- Deviation, mean daily−1 / +3 s
03 Disclosure
214 parts. One intention.
Held apart for the first and last time. From here, nine hands will put it back — and it will never open again.
A list is the most honest form of luxury.
No adjectives. Only what is inside, and who touched it.
001
Pavé bezel
648 brilliant-cut stones, each seated in a hand-cut bead. Rejected if the table sits 0.02 mm proud.
Genève · 68 h002
Skeleton mainplate
Reduced to 31% of its original mass, then re-anglé so every removed gram becomes a visible edge.
Vallée de Joux · 94 h003
Free-sprung balance
Four gold poising screws. No index. Rate is corrected by inertia, not by shortening the spring.
Le Locle · 22 h004
Going train
Seven wheels, spokes chamfered on both faces — including the face nobody will ever see.
Genève · 51 h005
Barrel & ratchet
Single barrel, 72 hours. Wound by a click whose sound was tuned across nineteen prototypes.
Genève · 37 h006
Bracelet, integrated
Forty-one links, each brushed along its own grain so light travels the wrist in one unbroken line.
Genève · 129 h
04 The Hand
The last 4% takes 61% of the time.
A machine can bring a bridge to 96% of finished. It cannot decide when a bevel catches the light correctly, because that is not a measurement — it is a judgement. So the final 4% is left to a person with a boxwood peg, a diamond paste no coarser than 0.5 micron, and no deadline.
AnglagePerlageBlack polishSnailingBead-setting
“We do not finish a movement. We stop when there is nothing dishonest left in it.” — Émile Rauch, Chef d’Atelier, 34 years
05 The Collection
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06 Technical
Everything measurable, measured.
Figures verified at 23 °C after 24 hours of static rate observation.
- Calibre
- AV-1874, manual wind, skeletonised
- Components
- 214 · 29 jewels
- Frequency
- 28,800 vph · 4 Hz
- Power reserve
- 72 hours, single barrel
- Rate
- −1 / +3 s per day, six positions
- Case
- 39.5 mm × 9.1 mm · 18k yellow gold
- Bezel
- 648 brilliant-cut diamonds · 3.11 ct
- Crystal
- Sapphire, double anti-reflective
- Water resistance
- 30 m — it is not that kind of promise
- Bracelet
- Integrated, 41 links, butterfly clasp
- Warranty
- Lifetime of the wearer, transferable once
- Delivery
- 14–22 months from allocation
Held by people who do not photograph it.
“I have owned four grand complications. This is the only one I have never sent back.”
Collector, Register No. 004 · Singapore
“The anglage on the escape bridge is the finest I have inspected outside of a museum.”
Independent appraisal · Basel
“Nine hands. You can feel exactly where the ninth one stopped.”
Collector, Register No. 011 · Zürich
REVOLUTIONHODINKEETHE HOUR GLASSMONOCHROMEQUILL & PAD
08 Invitation
Request a private viewing.
There is no boutique. A case is brought to you, opened on a cloth, and left in your hands for as long as you need. One appointment per day, worldwide.
- GenèveRue du Rhône 84 · by appointment
- Concierge+41 22 000 1874 · 24 h response
- RegisterCurrently 27 names ahead of allocation