Balancier QM

• Limited Edition: 33 timepieces
• Case: White Gold
• Size: 39.6 mm x 12.5 mm
• Movement: hand-wound manufacture caliber
• Power Reserve: approximately 72 hours
• Water Resistance: 30 m
• Dial: Multi-level in gold, rhodium-coloured, engraved GF logo and minute-circle, lacquered • Small seconds and power-reserve in gold, engraved, lacquered
• Caseback: Transparent back with synthetic sapphire crystal
• Hands: Hours and minutes, curved profile, polished steel with Super-Luminova • Small seconds, fixed red triangle • Power-reserve, in polished steel, flat black polished head
• Strap/Bracelet: Hand-sewn textured rubber White gold pin buckle engraved GF logo

Greubel Forsey introduces the Balancier QM – the first timepiece to carry the Qualité Musée standard. Since 2004, the Atelier has held every timepiece to a single, uncompromising level of hand finishing, applied uniformly and never formally named. With Balancier QM, that standard has a name: Qualité Musée. Limited to 33 timepieces in a 39.6 mm white gold case, it is the first expression of a discipline now driven forward by a dedicated research wing within the Experimental Watch Technology Laboratory.

A high-domed sapphire crystal reveals a movement built as a landscape. The escapement sits deep within the architecture; the eye climbs to the small seconds on a higher plane, descends to the mainspring barrel, and rises again to flame-blued steel hands and the chapter ring above. Beneath that ring, a mysterious power-reserve hand travels unseen before resurfacing on a sector to display 72 hours of running time – depth and movement on every level, designed to engage the wearer on the wrist and off it. Turn the timepiece over and the winding system is placed openly on display, its wheels, clicks and springs finished as if they sat on the dial side. 

At the heart, the 12.6 mm in-house balance is paired with a hairspring made entirely within the Atelier, from the raw material up. Balancier QM is both a step further along a road travelled since 2004 and a confirmation of an unchanging belief: the aim is to do the best, not the most. The standard is named.