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Custom Watch Complication Design

At Agenhor, we imagine and design exclusive mechanical complications, crafted to enrich your movements and express your brand’s identity. From retrograde displays to decentralized animations and poetic mechanisms, each creation combines technical precision, creative freedom, and functional beauty.

Custom Mechanical Watch Complications: Our Expertise

At Agenhor, a complication isn’t a gratuitous technical display; it’s a mechanism that serves an emotion, an original display, or a reimagined way of reading time.

We design custom mechanical complications that are elegantly integrated into the movement, without unnecessary complexity. Whether it’s a retrograde display, a moon phase, a decentralized animation, or a poetic module, each creation aims to the watch.

Our strength lies in our ability to intelligently integrate these mechanisms into existing calibers or to design new ones when the architecture demands it.

The result: unique pieces, recognizable for their apparent simplicity, mechanical fluidity, and aesthetic coherence.

Custom Design and Integration into Your Movements

Every complication we develop is designed with your specific project in mind—from the architecture of the movement that will house it, to the experience you want to offer through your watch. We work on different levels, according to your needs:
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Integration into an existing movement:

We develop a module that is fully compatible with your caliber without disrupting its function.
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Complete design:

If the complication is at the heart of the entire piece, we design a bespoke movement that incorporates it right from the outset.
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Technical support:

We work directly with your design and technical teams to ensure perfect coherence between the initial idea, the mechanics, and the final aesthetic.
Our goal is to provide you with a complication that is perfectly integrated, reliable, elegant, and, above all, true to your brand’s identity.

Poetic Aesthetics at the Heart of Complication Watches

At Agenhor, every complication is more than a technical challenge; it’s a way of expressing time with poetry. Our creations bring spectacular animations to life , designed to surprise without ever weighing down the mechanism or complicating the time display.

We believe in watchmaking where apparent simplicity hides an absolute mastery of movement. This is the signature of our complications: a ballet of invisible components serving an elegant, fluid, and unexpected gesture. Retrograde indications, animated moon phases, poetic display modules… each project is designed as a balance between the beauty of the movement and horological logic.

“We have always sought to create complications that speak to the heart as much as to the mind. Time isn’t just read; it’s felt.”– Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, founder of Agenhor

Manufacturing, Assembly, and Decoration in Our Geneva Workshop

At Agenhor, every mechanism is developed and assembled in our independent workshop in Geneva. We oversee the entire production chain, from mechanical adjustment to artisanal decoration, to ensure coherence, reliability, and precision.

Our watchmakers manually assemble each module or complete movement, with rigorous quality control at every stage. This precision is essential, especially for poetic mechanisms where the animation must remain fluid, silent, and perfectly synchronized with the time display.

The finishes are applied according to the highest standards of Swiss watchmaking:

  • Traditional anglage (beveling)
  • Perlage, sunburst finishing, Côtes de Genève
  • Specific finishes based according to the requests of our partner brands

This know-how, rooted in tradition yet focused on innovation, allows us to create custom mechanical movements where visual beauty is inseparable from technical performance.

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Our Main Complications Developed

Each mechanical complication is conceived as a visual language. Our expertise lies in the art of designing mechanisms that are simultaneously useful, elegant, and innovative, enriching the time display while adding a narrative dimension to the watch.

Examples of watch complications designed by Agenhor:

We also develop grand complications, which combine several functions in the same caliber, or useful complications, designed to enrich the time display without cluttering the watch.

Frequently Asked Questions about Watch Design

What is a watch complication?
A watch complication is an additional function beyond the display of hours, minutes, and seconds. Examples include a moon phase, a retrograde date, or a minute repeater.
What makes an Agenhor complication different?

Agenhor complications, while remaining technically complex, are distinguished by their simplicity of integration, their visual elegance, and their poetic approach to time, all .

Is it possible to integrate a module into an existing movement?
Yes, Agenhor designs modules that can be adapted to existing movements, subject to technical and dimensional compatibility.
How long does it take to design a complication?
The design of a complication takes, on average, 6 to 18 months, depending on the project’s complexity and the level of customization required.
What are the most requested watch complications?

The most popular include moon phases, retrograde displays, perpetual calendars, and the exclusive poetic animations designed by Agenhor.

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Whether it’s an integrated chronograph or an innovative time display, every project relies on a balance between legibility, originality, and performance.

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