A NEW MÉTIER D’ART JOINS THE COLLECTION
Louis Erard presents Le Régulateur Esprit Flinqué, a new expression of craft where light, texture, and structure shape the dial. Two limited-edition creations, offered in two colour variations. The blue model was first introduced in December 2025 as a special collaboration with Worn & Wound. It now returns to join the Noirmont Métiers d’Art collection alongside a new grey variation.
“Together with Worn & Wound, we spent three years shaping the most ambitious idea rather than settling for the simple one. The result is one of my favorite Louis Erard editions to date. Now joining our Métiers d’Art collection, it opens the door to new designs to come.”
Manuel Emch
- Two limited-edition watches: Each limited to 99 pieces. The blue edition developed in collaboration with Worn & Wound, and the grey version as pure Louis Erard interpretation.
- Regulator reimagined: Louis Erard’s signature movement, separating hours, minutes, and seconds for heightened clarity.
- Innovation: for the first time at Louis Erard, skeletonized hour and seconds discs appear to float above the dial.
- Esprit Flinqué technique: layered dial construction combining fluted sunray, and lacquered finishes, introducing a new Métiers d’Art expression.
REGULATOR. REIMAGINED.
Esprit Flinqué reframes Louis Erard’s signature regulator through pattern and light, structuring time through a clear visual hierarchy on the dial.
For the first time at Louis Erard, the hours and seconds appear on skeletonized rotating discs. Their open worked construction required precise development to ensure smooth rotation, stability, and legibility within the regulator layout, while adding a sense of lightness and motion to the display.
The eye goes straight to the minute display in deep blue or grey. Fluted sunray lines structure the dial and guide light across its surface. The fir tree–shaped minute hand recalls Louis Erard’s visual identity. A lighter surrounding frames the composition and lets intensity shift as the watch moves on the wrist. Reflections evolve across the dial, revealing variations in brightness and depth. This interplay defines the Esprit Flinqué signature.
Both models, limited to 99 pieces each, come in a 39 mm polished stainless-steel case. The blue version is paired with a beige calf-leather strap, bringing warmth on the wrist, while the grey extends the same tone from dial to strap for a monochrome expression with a defined, architectural presence, a look that echoes the broader trend for understated, tonal watches that feel at home in both contemporary style and classic horology.
A NEW EXPRESSION OF MÉTIERS D’ART
With Esprit Flinqué, Louis Erard continues to build a Métiers d’Art territory defined over recent years by a series of explorations in hand engraving, grand feu enamel, and fil d’or, among others, each reinterpreted through contemporary lens and produced in limited series.
Each project as a field for experimentation where traditional savoir-faire is translated into contemporary watchmaking expressions, with a focus on clarity, structure, and material presence, taking métiers d’art codes beyond their usual context in high watchmaking.
Esprit Flinqué extends this approach into a new visual grammar, driven by light, structure, and movement.
A new category. A new visual language. Designed to evolve.
