NEW TIME: Influential watchmaker and entrepreneur Dominique Renaud is launching an eponymous brand.
It will make its debut at the Time to Watches fair running April 14 to 19 in Geneva, running at the same time as the 2026 edition of Watches and Wonders.
The first timepiece under Renaud’s eponymous label will be the Pulse60, with a name nodding to 60 beats or oscillations per minute — or 1 Hertz, which is also the resting rhythm of a healthy human heart.
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Inside a 40mm case is the newly developed Dominique Renaud BUA2024 movement, which took two years to develop and operates at that frequency, the lowest possible one in contemporary mechanical watchmaking.
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The veteran watchmaker is considered a pioneer of movement development and cofounded complications specialist Renaud & Papi in 1986. After the company was sold to Audemars Piguet in 1992, he went on to develop a wide range of complications for major watchmakers.
Dominique Renaud is the second brand under the aegis of Haute Horlogerie Dominique Renaud, or HHDR, which is billed as a laboratory and incubator for watchmaking as well as an integrated manufacturing chain that is headquartered in Tolochenaz, a city located in the watchmaking arc of Switzerland.
The first is Renaud Tixier, launched in 2023 as the fruit of a collaboration between Renaud and 33-year-old rising watchmaking star Julien Tixier. HHDR’s parent company DR Group also has a stake in Niton, a freshly revived Geneva-based watchmaker specialized in jumping hour complications that traces its roots to the 1920s.
Renaud has also launched an eponymous foundation that aims to foster transmission and innovation in watchmaking expertise.