From his Montreux workshop, Pascal Bettex has been crafting his works over time. Always featuring movement served up in dreams and a playful spirit that illuminates wonders, then suddenly, a Claude Meylan watch floating weightlessly.

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This artist, a stalwart of kinetic art, seems to have caught the Tinguely virus. In Geneva, at the Beau Rivage, in the front window of the private showroom of the Claude Meylan brand, his kinetic sculpture ‘Rouages du Temps’ (Gears of Time) literally mesmerised visitors during Watch Week in spring 2025.

A heart-and-soul vector resonating with Swiss-made models that, among their identifying characteristics, have cultivated the art in motion of skeleton watches from the Vallée de Joux. Philipe Belais, the boss, immediately fell in love with this master of creative ingenuity and kinetic fantasies. He gave him carte blanche, even if though transport turned out to be somewhat epic…