For the first time in horological history, Claude Meylan is bringing molten glass into the very heart of a watch dial. In a new collaboration with master glassmakers Frédéric Taddeï and Samuel Taddeï, the brand introduces a collection where each dial is not printed, painted, or engraved — it is forged. Every piece is a unique fragment of glass taken to the height of its incandescence, then frozen at the exact moment fire becomes form.
The result is a series of one-of-a-kind timepieces where no two dials are — or ever could be — identical.
An Art Born of Fire
Glass is a material that resists control. It has to be coaxed to the edge of collapse and caught at precisely the right instant, and that unpredictability is the point. Samuel Taddeï, working from his atelier alongside his father Frédéric, brings decades of glassmaking mastery to a discipline that has never before shared a dial with fine watchmaking.
Each dial captures a single, unrepeatable moment of glass in motion: bubbles suspended mid-rise, mineral streaks pulling through the surface, light refracting differently with every angle of the wrist. Where traditional dials are manufactured to a standard, these are events — a instant of pure heat, permanently held still.
Claude Meylan’s role was to build a case and movement architecture worthy of that intensity: a partial dial window that lets the glass dominate the composition while the mechanism remains visible and legible, set in a polished steel case on a fine alligator strap.
Four Expressions, One Language of Fire
The collection currently exists across four distinct colorways, each a different reading of glass under heat.
A radiant yellow dial, the glass scattered with fine bubbles and mineral flecks.
Warm bronze and gold tones folding into one another like a living fresco.
Ember reds and deep burgundy erupting from a field of pale, bubbling glass.
Cool blues shifting through mineral depth.
Glass, like time, is both fragile and eternal — fixed in form, yet forever in motion. Each dial captures that tension in its own register.
Craft Meets Precision
This collaboration sits at the meeting point of two disciplines that rarely intersect: glass art and Swiss watchmaking. It’s a genuinely artisanal proposition — every dial is a singular work, shaped by hand, meaning every Claude Meylan Millésime that leaves the atelier is the only one of its kind.
For collectors drawn to pieces with real character — watches that don’t just tell the time but hold a frozen instant of raw material history on the wrist — this is a rare opportunity to own something made once, and only once.
