Watches created by the company C. H. Meylan in the early 1900s often resurface at watch auctions. The brand set up by Charles Henri Meylan in Le Brassus in 1878 manufactured watches in Switzerland but also worked extensively with American clients.

 

That's why lots tend to include many watches bearing a retailer's logo — Tiffany & Co. — rather than the manufacturer's one. The reason the brand is so popular on the pre-owned watch market may have something to do with how wide the range was.

 

When it comes to C. H. Meylan's antique and vintage line, you can find pocket watches, Art Deco models, jewelry pieces and accessories which are technically interesting, such as a regulator with a jumping-hour complication dating back to 1935.

These timepieces which never fail to attract attention among collectors have provided a source of inspiration for the Molnár Fábry watchmakers based in the Slovakian town of Banská Bystrica. When Michal Molnár and Igor Fábry founded the company in 2006, they placed their bets on exquisite engraving to make their one-of-a-kind pieces stand out.

 

The watchmaking duo's latest creation combines exclusive aesthetics with an interesting movement: the base chosen for the latest piece is a pocket-watch repeater by C. H. Meylan from 1901. The 2022 version of the movement rehoused in the Molnár Fábry watch Grand Master Minute Repeater has undergone some serious artistic reworking.

The first thing that catches your eye in Molnár Fábry watch is the pattern covering each and every part of the manually wound movement. The pattern is carried onto the yellow-gold case. The case turned out to be fairly large due to the fact that a pocket-watch movement was used as the base, which measures 47 mm in diameter and 14 mm in height.

 

The ornate decoration isn't the only update Molnár Fábry watchmakers have made. They've taken the movement from a watch with traditional central hour and minute hands and small seconds at 6 o'clock and offset the time display to 1 o'clock, moving the seconds to 9 o'clock.

The movement's openworked components are the main attraction on the dial, where the watch indications have been made miniature with new subdials in a shade of blue that matches the strap. The unconventional project to revive a watchmaking classic has brought an interesting novelty into existence, created as a unique piece.