Boucheron - To create is to remember...
At Boucheron, every timepiece creation is a piece of jewelry, every watch is a jewel.
Since it was founded, the Maison Boucheron has been creating timepieces with the same passion, attention to detail and high standards as it affords to its jewelry. Their histories often intertwine and they attract one another through a common inspiration, a dialogue of expertise and a shared sense of complicity. A true testimony lived time and time again through the history of the Maison.
The first pocket watches (1859) designed by Frederic Boucheron are sculpted with the same standards of excellence as a jewel. They perfectly embody the exceptional spirit of Boucheron watchmaking, which shine through both its ornamentation and inventiveness.
Less than ten years later, in 1867, the exceptional nature of a chatelaine attracted the jury's attention at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, earning Boucheron the gold medal for its innovation. The same year, Frederic Boucheron no doubt came across Constant Girard for the first time, who was also praised by the jury of the Exposition Universelle for his research in the field of escapement systems, particularly the Tourbillon.
In the ultimate recognition of their savoir-faire, a further award was bestowed on each of them at the Exposition Universelle in Paris some twenty years later. In 1889, Frederic Boucheron's ¬first "point d'interrogation" formed necklace received the gold medal for its incredible design - a clasp-free necklace - while Constant Girard-Perregaux was also awarded a prize for his famous Tourbillon with three gold Bridges, a mechanism with a unique architecture.
A century and a half later, the collaboration between the First Jeweler on the Place Vendôme and the famous Manufacture in Chaux-de-Fonniere therefore comes as no surprise. Throughout its history, Boucheron has worked with the greatest watchmakers of its time, even today with Girard- Perregaux, to create exceptional pieces designed by the Maison.
Over and above this loyalty in sharing expertise, Boucheron has continually forged connections by applying motifs and techniques borrowed from jewelry to watchmaking.
Since 1878, Boucheron has been creating necklaces in the form of serpents, which herald its unfailing passion for the animal kingdom.
In 1947, Boucheron created the REFLET watch, a true watchmaking revolution that would very quickly become an icon. With its invisible clasp and ingenious system of interchangeable straps, REFLET established itself as a watch for enlightened connoisseurs, whose name evokes the extraordinary light of 26 Place Vendôme. Its gadroon motif recurs in accessories from the 1950s, the BRIDAL collection and even the more contemporary QUATRE ring, where it symbolizes union.