Louis Erard's CEO Manuel Emch is gradually changing the brand without shaking its pillars.

One of these steps has been restructuring the collections. Now everything is clear: La Sportive has been replaced with the 2300 collection, and now Excellence is being replaced by the Noirmont family, named after the Swiss Le Noirmont municipality in the Jura Mountains, where Louis Erard has been based since 1992.

Noirmont is founded on three key pillars: the classic Noirmont model, the Noirmont Métiers d’Art series and the Noirmont X reserved for collaborations from the outset. Noirmont has gotten off to a lively start, introducing the Régulateur Gravé watch in the Métiers d’Art line, which are no longer limited editions, and now form a permanent collection.

So let's get acquainted. The Régulateur Gravé debuts the brand's reinterpreted sector dial. The 1930s design which has come back into fashion has naturally been rethought in Louis Erard's spirit.

There's no mistaking who created this watch with particular attention to detail here. The dial with a fine-grained finish is complemented by engraved rose-gilt indexes and numerals, which create more play with volume.

For all its classic accents, such as the railroad track minute, the novelty is still a member of the Régulateur family with recognisable family traits like the two subdials that come together to form a figure eight (hours at 12 o'clock and seconds at 6 o'clock) and a central minute hand.

The black dial is encircled by a 39-mm steel case. The height of the case combined with sapphire crystal is 12.82 mm. Adding to the neo-vintage look is a beige calf leather strap with tone-on-tone stitching and a black grained calf leather lining. The new unlimited Le Régulateur Gravé Noir houses a Sellita SW266-1A movement with a 38-hour power reserve.