Daniel Roth trained at Audemars Piguet and spent twelve years at Breguet, where he revived guilloché dials, fluted casebands, and blued hands. He then chose an independent path, joining George Daniels, F.P. Journe, and Philippe Dufour in shaping a new era of haute horlogerie. Today the house continues at La Fabrique du Temps in Meyrin, Switzerland. There, master watchmakers develop calibers shaped to the double-ellipse case and finish every component by hand, honoring Roth’s original codes without simply repeating them.

The Extra Plat takes on a brooding, debonair feel in black and rose gold. The signature pinstripe guilloché and the filet sauté minute track engravings are all done by hand on a traditional rose lathe. And whereas other brands might print gold-tone markings onto a black dial, Daniel Roth uses a solid 5N rose gold dial with black lacquer galvanized onto the precious metal itself.

The Extra Plat in platinum trades shine for substance. Denser and more demanding to sculpt than gold, platinum gives the double-ellipse case a presence felt more than seen. Roth’s signature case profile offers a playful reinvention of classical design cues, blending curves and angles to create a distinctive silhouette that balances expression with restraint.

The Extra Plat Rose Gold Skeleton is the first all-new creation of the revived house, not a reissue. Its hand-wound caliber DR002SR was reworked with bridges and plates shaped specifically for openworking, rendered in solid 18k rose gold and set against black-polished steel. Bevelling, polishing, and perlage, including on the undersides of the bridges, are completed entirely in-house. Framed in the signature double-ellipse case at just 6.9mm thin, it shows the movement as Roth’s own world: architectural, warm, and finished to a standard most watches never reveal.