The 2026 Collection  ·  Limited to 188 pieces

Time, cast in gold.

An 18k automatic chronometer, finished by hand in Genève over four hundred hours.

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01 La Maison

A century and a half of measuring the immeasurable.

Since 1874, seven generations of Verance watchmakers have worked from the same atelier above Lake Geneva. Every Nocturne is assembled, regulated and cased by a single master.

É.V. Élise Varenne
7th-generation master
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1874 Founded in Genève

One atelier, one lake view, seven generations.

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400h Hours per piece

Each bevel and anglage finished by hand.

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7 Master watchmakers

Their initials, engraved beneath the rotor.

02 Anatomie

212 components. One heartbeat.

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03 Calibre V-88

Engineered for the long night.

An in-house automatic movement beating at four hertz, with twin barrels that carry three full days of reserve. Certified to −2/+2 seconds a day — twice as strict as chronometer standard.

72hPower reserve
28,800Vibrations / hour
42Ruby jewels
212Components
100mWater resistance
41mmCase diameter

04 Configure

Make it unmistakably yours.

CaseOr Jaune 18k
DialNoir Abysse
From CHF 48,500
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“We do not make watches. We make heirlooms that happen to tell the time.”

Élise Varenne, Master Watchmaker

05 Private Viewing

Only 188 pieces. Each numbered, never repeated.

Request an appointment at our Genève salon, or have a Verance concierge bring the Nocturne to you.

06 Collectors

Worn by those who wait for nothing.

“I have owned watches for forty years. The Nocturne is the first one I check the time on simply to look at it.”
HL Henri LaurentParis · Collector since 1998 Nº 007 / 188
“The dial changes with the light of the room. By evening it turns almost violet, and I find myself turning my wrist just to watch it.”
AO Amara OkaforLagos · Architect Nº 042 / 188
“Élise wound it in front of me at the salon. Two years later it has not lost a second I could ever notice.”
KT Kenji TanakaKyoto · Tea master Nº 113 / 188
“My daughter already asks for it. That is how I know it was the right choice: it was bought for two lifetimes.”
SM Sofia MarchettiMilano · Collector since 2011 Nº 161 / 188
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