Six generations of Genevan watchmaking, distilled into a single mechanical movement. Each Aurelian is assembled by one master horologist, finished over 11 months, and numbered for the family that will inherit it.
A maison measured in patience, not volume
Every Aurelian line begins with a complication and ends in restraint. Browse the current references — each made to order, each delivered with its own bound certificate of origin.
A flying tourbillon suspended in a 39mm rose-gold case, regulated to ±2 seconds a day. The maison's reference piece — limited to 12 numbered examples annually.
A perpetual calendar that needs no correction until the year 2100. Salmon dial, blued hands, and a movement visible through a single sapphire pane.
An astronomical moon-phase accurate to one day every 122 years, hand-engraved on an aventurine sky. Cased in platinum, finished entirely by hand.
Cathedral gongs hand-tuned by a single régleur until the chime is judged perfect by ear. Eight months of acoustic finishing per piece.
An integrated steel bracelet sport watch with an in-house 72-hour automatic. The everyday Aurelian — quietly built, never loud.
A single piece, conceived with you over a year of correspondence with our master watchmaker. Your dial, your complication, your name on the caseback.
Machines can cut a gear. They cannot anglage a bridge, tune a gong, or decide when a movement is ready. At Aurelian, every decision is made by a human at the bench.
A single master horologist assembles your timepiece from first screw to final regulation. Their initials are engraved beside the serial number.
Côtes de Genève, perlage, and beveled bridges polished by hand to the Poinçon de Genève standard — finishing you will only see through the caseback.
Every movement is designed, machined, and assembled under one Genevan roof. We buy nothing we can make ourselves.
We keep the plans and parts for every reference we have ever made. Send your Aurelian home in fifty years and it returns as new.
Founded in 1874 above a Geneva jeweller's shop, Aurelian has never been sold, listed, or mass-produced. It has only ever been handed down.
Established by master watchmaker Henri Aurelian in the Quartier des Bains, where the atelier still stands today.
Six generations, never a single outside shareholder. Every decision answers to the name on the dial, not a quarterly board.
Each calibre carries the Poinçon de Genève — the city's 135-year-old seal awarded to fewer than 24,000 watches a year worldwide.
Every Aurelian is engraved, registered, and recorded in the maison ledger by hand — so its provenance can be traced for centuries.
“I have owned watches from every great Swiss house. The Méridien is the only one I will never sell — and the only one my son has already asked for.”
“I visited the atelier expecting a showroom and found a workshop. My watchmaker showed me my own movement, half-assembled, on his bench. That is when I understood what I was buying.”
“The repeater chimes truer than anything in my collection. You can hear the eight months of work in a single strike of the hour.”
Every piece is made to order through a private appointment — at our Geneva atelier, a partner boutique, or by video with a maison advisor. We do not sell through retailers or online checkout.
Between nine and fourteen months, depending on the complication. With only sixty pieces leaving the atelier each year, certain references carry a waiting list of two years or more.
Yes. Beyond the Atelier Unique bespoke line, most references allow your choice of dial finish, hand colour, strap, and a discreet engraving on the caseback or movement.
Every Aurelian carries lifetime restoration. We recommend a service every five to seven years, performed only at the Geneva atelier by the watchmakers who build the calibre.
Each watch is delivered with a hand-bound certificate of origin, its entry in the maison ledger, and full traceability for resale, insurance, and inheritance.
Sit with a master watchmaker, hold the references, and begin the piece your family will inherit. Private viewings in Geneva, or by invitation in your city.