Louis Erard - Le Régulateur Louis Erard x Label Noir

Le Régulateur Louis Erard x Label Noir is the result of the collaboration between Louis Erard and Label Noir, a customisation atelier. Price CHF 3,500

Louis Erard collaborated with Label Noir, a Geneva-based atelier at the forefront of customisation for more than ten years, to create a new interpretation of its iconic regulator timepiece.

Characterised by dark tones with touches of green, Le Régulateur Louis Erard x Label Noir comes in a 42 mm x 12.25 mm Excellence case crafted from stainless steel with a matte black PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) coating. It offers water resistance up to a pressure of 5 bars (50 metres / 165 feet).

Protected by a domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment on both sides, the dial has a regulator-type arrangement of its indications, with the white hours counter at 12 o’clock, the central axis bearing the minutes hand only, and the seconds hand sub-dial at 6 o'clock. 

The hands have the signature fir-tree shape. They are rhodium-plated for hours and minutes and green lacquered for seconds.

Emmanuel Curti, head watchmaker and founder of Label Noir, wanted to redesign the regulator with graduated finishes, from true matte to a glossy sheen, that follow the order of reading: first the hour, then the minute, then the seconds. 

The small hour dial is the only glossy black element on the entire watch, highlighted by a thread of mirror-polished steel. The rest of the dial is in vertically brushed matte to emphasise the contrast.

Visible through the transparent green caseback, the automatic Sellita SW266-1 calibre beats at the frequency of 4 Hz (28,800 vibrations per hour) and offers 38 hours of power reserve. The openworked oscillating weight of this élaboré grade movement is decorated with a black lacquered Louis Erard symbol. 

The watch is matched to a black Cordura woven fabric strap with green stitching and a sandblasted stainless steel pin buckle with black PVD coating. The functional catch spring bars enables the strap to be changed quickly. The lug width is 22 mm.

A limited edition of 178 pieces, the new Le Régulateur Louis Erard x Label Noir has a price of CHF 3,500. louiserard.com