Inside Bovet, a Unique Manufacture of High-End, Astronomical Watches

An in-depth look at a unique manufacture, Bovet. The brand was founded in 1822 by Edouard Bovet, creating high-end, openworked pocket watches mainly sold to the Chinese market. In 2001, Pascal Raffy acquired this brand and created a vertically integrated manufacture that, even today, continues to create superbly finished, high-end, complex watches with astronomical complications and unique transformable cases - as an ode to the ancient pocket watches created by Edouard Bovet.
Today, MONOCHROME is in Motiers where Bovet has its HQ and some of its manufacturing facilities.

[@graemeneale9311]

I have had the good fortune to be able to see a number of these magnificent timepieces. They are truly beautiful and the complex movement is something remarkable.

[@oiramsq73]

Bravo for (in my opinion) one of the most overlooked brands at the highest end of the industry!

[@feraldorozanandy1114]

I can listen to pascal all day... he sound like an enlightenment... Bovet is my inspiration to strive... how could someone buys a company in 2001 at the age of 38 which is not very young, managed to design a watch this great with no background of early education in watchmaking? This guy is insane

[@robdeskrd]

How could a man at 38 buy company and be successful? I bet being rich from a family helped a lot. Not to be a slight to the man but the major difference between him and many other people is he was born rich. Between good schooling, a waiting position in the family law firm and, the many inevitable conventional/social connections to other rich people who were born rich, it basically means unless you are generally incompetent, choose to self destruct or, suffer a vast personal calamity you will be financially successful...... I do admire these watches but it would do the world a lot more good if extremely wealthy people put more of money back into civilization rather than $30,000 watches & $50,000 - $100,000 suits to go with the collection of $250,000 and up cars and the collection of $10,000,000 and up houses.

[@theodoro89]

@@robdeskrd There are many rich people in the world, but only a few would be able to do that. Even just listening to this guy you can tell he is extremely passionate about watches. No matter how rich you are or how hard you work it is not possible to create timeless art pieces without passion and creativity. If you want to talk about business you should be looking at MVMT watches. This is art.

[@Kafue]

@@robdeskrd Phhhhttttttttt.......We do not know how much he & his family have & do give to Charity & good causes. Let us never forget that the desire to achieve is an inherent & desirable (not to mention admirable) characteristic of the better Soul. Without this characteristic, we would be all still living like those in the Dark Ages...

[@jonascastejon5888]

@@robdeskrd All that little self-righteous, self-serving speech to come off at the end as a envious person. Bravo. Was OP comment the one that triggered you while scrolling down the comments? Why was that? There are few things that I despise more than envious people pretending to lecture wealthy people where or how to invest their own money. Why don't *you* strive to become "extremely wealthy" so you can the live and lead by example then? Because that'd be very difficult, but instead it's very easy to give stupid, worthless opinions about "proper" wealth spending coming precisely from someone who, judging by what you wrote, has created none in comparison. How enlightening. And *I do* feel a moral obligation to call out such opinions because of how *asinine, disingenuous, and ignorant they are* , and for which I have no respect at all. *Especially* given how prevalent and favored such line of thinking is among *hypocrites demagogues and politicians on the left* . Whom I absolutely despise. *Facts are* , Billions of dollars are given back to civilization every year by "extremely wealthy people" through philanthropy, in case you didn't noticed. Hospitals, schools, universities, concert halls, world-class professional orchestras, sport facilities, stadiums, etc, all thanks to "extremely wealthy people". *All thanks to Capitalism.* Who do you think created the world-class John Hopkins hospital? And that's just *one* example of hundreds, if not thousands. So, in any case, you have no point other than, by and large, shitting on wealthy and successful folks for no real good reason other than envy and thinking that they *owe you something* (which they don't). Unless you don't consider yourself part of the civilization you seem to be speaking on behalf of and live under a rock.

[@PhilipWing]

@@theodoro89 exactly what I wanted to say. Creating a successful business when you start off well connected and rich etc. Yes, agreed, it is easier. But we aren't talking about business, we're talking about running an operation that is on the absolute pinnacle of the respective industry, ie. Koenigsegg for the car industry comparison. That is what's so impressive about this man!

[@THEUNSEENREPORT]

BOVET - Truly Elegant, Truly Swiss Handcrafted. Love Bovet 🤩

[@keithgwynn2200]

I would not be surprised if these found their way in top art museums.

[@20thcenturyboy85]

Monsieur Raffy, the owner is so incredibly well-spoken about their AMAZING time pieces. Impressive.

[@alexp974]

Things like this make me glad we have rich people. Without a demographic to market high end watches to, the rest of us would not be able to admire and marvel at the craftsmanship and engineering of these peices.

[@bybanzai]

I could listen to this man talk all day long. My God what an incredible time peace it makes me want to spit on all my other watches. This is a timepiece that you can keep in your family for generations to come and be proud of it

[@jayremi4384]

Wow, what a beautiful video. Thank you so much.

[@khaledal-habib777]

thank you for your well performing video, thanks to Pascal .

[@me-cq7wv]

Works of art. Thanks for posting

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Incredible work of art

[@arysritahto9773]

Sangat indah sekali begitu detail...terima kasih atas videonya...

[@Nanotelli]

Wow what a beautiful watch I dream to have one

[@tidemannluxurywatches]

Great video of a fantastic watch brand!

[@shahyawar3709]

Man is great.

[@MrBeard-et1yi]

Just unbelievable 😍

[@Daniel-ye8px]

Amazing video, and what a wonderful brand.

[@MikhailKalashnikovMiG]

You’d never want to wear the watch though. A single scratch would be equivalent to losing 10 grand

[@jaysxm.3802]

My father owns the shooting star.. he wears it only once or twice a year. Won't let anyone in the family touch it lol

[@flacotitan6709]

perfecto gracias por la perfección titan bovet chile

[@charlesngala5546]

To the admin, is there an agency that markets your watches on social media?

[@Monochrome-watches]

The admin would be Team MONOCHROME, and we do not represent brands or have affiliations to agents that do. Your best bet is to reach out to Bovet directly through their website or social media platforms.

[@prashanthyeprash9838]

Master time piece

[@sergeh2215]

Very educate i have to learn. Merci beaucoup

[@Monochrome-watches]

You are welcome

[@kaylen741]

Quantity is not important, quality is important I'm agree...

[@a7128]

Timex should do a homage

[@kaylen741]

Quantities is not important, quality is important in agree. ...

[@CAfakmykak]

10 DAY POWER RESERVE?

[@tuantuan8587]

Thương hiệu lớn tốp 10 của đồng hồ cơ cổ độc đẹp chất chuẩn rất tuyệt vời cho một siêu phẩm quá din xịn sò có một không hai trên thế giới vừa đeo tay hay bỏ túi cũng OK để bàn cũng tốt OK

[@TheAbziek]

Sensational!

[@DongHoDocLa]

nice channel i like it

[@abhilashp331]

Can someone please suggest a good book to know about watches...??

[@Monochrome-watches]

What type of book are you looking for? About different brands, history, technology, or any of the other topics out there? There are thousands of books available so to be able to recommend one a little more info is needed ;)

[@74dbenji]

Superbe l'excellence

[@wololo10]

For me they are way above Patek

[@theoneaboveall6768]

Patek is in the mix with it then it’s a preference but yes it’s a tight race. I like them better because patek is getting to commercial now like it’s a timex

[@OffGridInvestor]

The watch with the hand painted globe is 250 thousand dollars. Just so you know....

[@wololo10]

@@OffGridInvestor grand recital is 500k

[@hamayhaje4775]

I really don't know how I praise that watch , all respect from me to watchmakers .. but that's not for me because not able to purchase

[@SnoopyDoofie]

You only wear one of these while being accompanied by 5 or 6 bodyguards.

[@mohammedines6182]

Combien coûte ces trois merveilles ?👍

[@tomgt007sugden]

Is this guy a Bond villain getting ready to take over the world 😁

[@WhatTimeIsIt999]

I can't even afford to watch this video nevermind the watch

[@Monochrome-watches]

Well, the video is free of charge and every view is welcome! ;)

[@brianthwaites2397]

You must always bear in mind that it was making cheap copies of British and German watches that gave the Swiss their start. FFs Rolex was a British company. That said Switzerland does make great watches but watch out for China, they started making copies of swiss watches but now they design their own movements and their best watches are now comparable with the Swiss at a much more realistic price point.

[@artursgabrusevs5153]

Every astronomers dream, ironically no astronomer could buy those.

[@michelsiqueira6289]

👏🏻👏🏻 👏🏻⌚

[@bim1537]

There’s no way I’ll buy these watches, too expensive, not for me. But at least it’s an interesting video.

[@John-tx5or]

CARS!!!!

[@pheehatumelo5195]

I wish my family only knew how good other families are in business instead of this mess they busy creating in their lifes n the lifes of others if the community business suffers the community itself suffers it's the economic hub of the people to live by n learn experience n grow as part of the wealth taught from home made materials n inspiration passed on to the people but people think otherwise in life never ever think of yourself as being above others we are all the same in our different ways we all eat n go to the powder room don't we

[@rashidtsoroev8263]

whats the name of songs ?

[@devidishaya]

You Miss Me · Michael Flory

[@nelsonfernandez6097]

Art in motion a time piece of taste extremely fine crafmachip same level of finish as patek . Lange vc or jlc. Stoning.

[@shawnmagra6939]

Text

[@mitchelljack1590]

Just look at your phone for the time man

[@Monochrome-watches]

Where's the fun in that :D

[@jamesmallicote3514]

B

[@Hyperborean_2]

M Raffy is Lebanese

[@Venom70787]

.........

[@guitartec]

It is a failure of all written language that has no words for describing these time pieces.

[@mrsir1872]

skip the entire first 2 minutes. its just fluff and bullshit.

[@waynew7710]

nonsense.