When fine watches were expected to be quiet, Gérald Genta drew them with edges, volume, and nerve. His eponymous house was his laboratory, a place for extreme complications, expressive case shapes, and decorative techniques that ignored convention. Today, it continues under La Fabrique du Temps in Meyrin, Switzerland. There, Master Watchmakers Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini, longtime collaborators of Mr. Genta, carry his vision forward with the same uncompromising execution.

The Gentissima Oursin 41 brings Mr. Genta’s 1994 design to a larger, more assertive scale. Its sandblasted Grade 5 titanium case holds 234 individually fitted white gold beads around a dial cut from a thin slice of blue or green meteorite. Every slice shows its own crystalline pattern, so no two dials are alike: a fragment of deep time, worn on the wrist. Beneath the sapphire caseback, an automatic calibre beats with a 50-hour power reserve. The Oursin was a favorite of Mrs. Evelyne Genta, and it has become one of the clearest expressions of the house today, bold in silhouette, precise in its making, and entirely its own.