The Lovers
- Category
- Artistic Crafts
- Case
- Platinum & Tantalum
- Movement
- Self-winding mechanical Power reserve: 72 h, 28800 vph
- Functions
- Hours, Minutes, Seconds
- Size
- ø 42 mm
- Thickness
- 8.65 mm
- Water resistance
- 50 m
- Reference
- WU-01-01
- Price
- 108,100 CHF
Description
Stollenwurm Series 2 is guided by the Tarot, a language of images that gives shape and meaning to time, opening a dialogue between what is seen and what is felt.
Each watch becomes an encounter with one of the Major Arcana, the great arc of the Tarot deck. The figures arrive as presences: archetypes that unfold like chapters of a journey through origins, thresholds, and revelations.
Each dial carries one of the cards, painted by internationally renowned artist Hannah Perry Saucier, first on seventy-six centimetres birchwood rounds, then reimagined in Grand Feu enamel with Donzé Cadrans. Three techniques meet on every dial: champlevé for the intricate frameworks, cloisonné to define the essence, and micro-painting for everything between. A keen eye can also spot paillonné on many dials. The figures they summon live as much in feeling as in sight.
Indices fade. Hours dissolve into figures, gestures, and signs. Time arrives charged with meaning, shaped by the archetype it passes through.
The Lovers Card n° VI
Choice • Union of Opposites • Relationship • Emotional Truth • Alignment • Desire
The Lovers is the archetype of becoming whole through conscious choice and meaningful relationship, a reminder that what we stand beside becomes part of our foundation. To choose what we love and align with our true values is to draw our seemingly separate parts into a coherent whole.
The Lovers asks: What do you truly value? Are your actions aligned with those values and your deeper self? How can love and connection make you more whole?
The cases are forged from tantalum and platinum, two materials rarely combined and rarer still to tame. Platinum carries an enduring gravity, tantalum runs dark and dense, notoriously hard to work. Together they embody resistance, weight, and permanence, the same qualities that shape Stollenwurm's understanding of time: layered, unyielding, full of hidden gravity.
Series 2 trades the metal bracelet for a leather strap, a move from armour to skin, from outer form to inner meaning. It closes with a tantalum tang-type buckle, the creature's silhouette set into the side, two rubies for its eyes and a platinum pin.
Inside sits an automatic micro-rotor movement, conceived, engineered, and assembled entirely in-house in close collaboration with Télôs and TMH. At its heart, a tungsten micro-rotor winds two parallel barrels to optimise energy delivery across the full power reserve, extending it to 72 hours, more than three days untouched. The calibre beats at 4 Hz, pairing precision with exceptional reliability.
Stunning 5N galvanic treatment bridges reflect the Stollenwurm, crawling through the movement, a ruby in his eye.
Five timepieces will be made for each of the twenty-two Major Arcana cards: one hundred ten in all.
Supplied by the brand to the GPHG for its entry.