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Watchmaker and brand

Daniel Roth

Also recorded as: Daniel Roth SA · Roth, Daniel

Brand founded by the watchmaker who led Breguet's revival, recognisable by its double-ellipse case.

Daniel Roth, born in Nice in 1945, worked at Audemars Piguet and then, from the 1970s, at Breguet, where he led the revival of the name under its new owners and designed many of its modern watches. He left in 1988 to found his own brand in the Vallée de Joux, whose watches — tourbillons, perpetual calendars, minute repeaters and chronographs — share a distinctive 'double-ellipse' case.

The brand was bought by Bulgari in 2000 and its watches were later sold under Bulgari's name. In 2023 Louis Vuitton's watch workshop, La Fabrique du Temps, relaunched Daniel Roth with a tourbillon in the original case shape.

Country: Switzerland (founder born in France)
City / centre: Le Sentier, Vallée de Joux
Founded: 1988
Status: Relaunched 2023 (La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton)
Key people: Daniel Roth (b. 1945)

Innovations & specialities

Double-ellipse case shape
Tourbillons, perpetual calendars and minute repeaters in small series

Timeline

1945Daniel Roth born in Nice
1988Own brand founded
2000Acquired by Bulgari
2023Relaunched by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton

Works by Daniel Roth in the catalogue

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