The Louis Erard x Alain Silberstein Smile-Day Blue & Tourbillon Régulateur Blue

Louis Erard has spent recent years defining a very specific place for itself within contemporary Swiss watchmaking. Its strength lies in clarity of design and advanced mechanics. That balance has become central to Louis Erard’s identity.

That design awareness is especially visible in the brand’s collaborative work, where Louis Erard has shown a rare ability to absorb the language of an outside creative without losing its own. One of its most notable collaborations is with French designer Alain Silberstein, who has, over the years, developed a visual vocabulary that is instantly recognisable, one in which hands, markers, and displays become a composition of shapes as much as instruments of timekeeping.

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Dial

The dial is a flat disc that serves as the face of the watch, displaying the time, marks, numbers, and indicators that show the time, date, and other functions and information on the watch.

The dial is mounted in the watch case and is the main visual element that allows the user to read the time. It usually consists of a circular disc with the necessary time units such as hours, minutes, and seconds. Numbers, marks, hands, or windows are placed on the dial to indicate the appropriate time. The display can be marked with numbered indexes, represented by hands, or through digital windows.

In addition to providing time reading, the dial may have other elements such as a power reserve indicator, date display, moon phase indicator, or sub-dials for various functions. The dial is designed with diverse colors and patterns to add aesthetics and distinction to the watch.