A new, independent watch brand forged of a partnership between 31-year-old watchmaker, Julien Tixier, and 65-year-old, industry veteran, Dominique Renaud, who founded the complications specialist Renaud & Papi alongside Giulio Papi in 1986. Renaud's first namesake marque, Renaud & Papi, is more commonly abbreviated APRP today—the AP referring to Audemars Piguet, who own a majority stake in the firm.

For his follow-up act, Ranaud is set to unveil 7 innovations on centuries-old watchmaking techniques. The first of those innovations is a bit of a stretch in that regard, however. A novel, platinum, dancer flywheel mechanism in Renaud Tixier's debut timepiece, designed to lend the micro-rotor greater winding efficiency, is a stepwise improvement on a decades-old technique. The very concept of a micro-rotor having first been submitted to a patent office 70 years prior, in 1954, by Universal Genève. Irrespective of their marketing team's distortion of reality, it is an interesting technical achievement.

By all accounts, each new innovation that Renaud Tixier has in the pipeline will be housed in a watch named after each day of the week. While Monday's offering is not to my personal taste, I am curious to see what's in store for Tuesday.