Laboratorio
Masterpiece Meticulously Crafted for Those Who Appreciate True Quality
Hand Made For You
Fatto A Mano Per Te
Every LIGURE is crafted with intention in our Laboratorio del Tempo, where time is treated as a material measured, shaped, and perfected.
Long before a LIGURE ever touches your wrist, it passes through the hands of dedicated specialists: each one a master of their discipline, each guided by the same belief: true watchmaking is personal.
Your LIGURE is assembled by professional watchmakers, by hand, with patience and precision. Every component is checked, every detail refined, every decision made for one purpose: to create a watch worthy of one unique customer: you.
Join us behind the atelier doors and discover the journey it takes to create a LIGURE, where craftsmanship, time, and desire meet.
Tested. Regulated. Verified.
The Sellita SW200 is a Swiss mechanical movement built for reliable accuracy and is individually regulated and tested in-house before it leaves our atelier. This movement is engineered for high precision, with a typical accuracy of ±7 seconds per day. Before shipping, we run each Ligure watch through an in-house timing and regulation check, measuring rate consistency in multiple positions and throughout the power reserve. Only after it meets our internal performance criteria do we approve it for final quality control and delivery.
The Time Team
A Ligure Timepiece is handcrafted. The parts are collected per order and assembled by experienced certified watchmakers in the workshop. After the amplitude has been adjusted, the tolerance has been set and the water resistance has been tested, they leave the workshop for the customer. The involvement and dedication of the entire team makes every LIGURE a timepiece that has received personal attention.
Hand Made Leather Straps
The Crown At 4
The date window on the dial is a fixed feature, you expect it at three o'clock. The crown is often on the same position For the sake of wearing comfort, we set the crown exactly at four o'clock. Without getting too technical, the date disk in the movement then falls outside the window and making the date no longer visible.
From a cost saving perspective is often chosen to set the crown to '18', so that you do not have to make new date discs. We have chosen a different path because we believe that in our design the alignment of the crown with the four o'clock index on the dial is aesthetic and gives unity and balance.
The eye for detail is what sets our designer apart from the herd.
Dry and Wet Test
Your LIGURE TARTARUGA is placed in a dry chamber and the air-pressure is increased to 10 atm. The machine detects the smallest variation in the case size. If the watch case expands, even slightly, then the watch is not water resistant and it will not pass the test.
THE LIGURE is placed in a chamber half filled with water and air. Air pressure increases while the watch is out of the water, and then the watch is slowly immersed in the water. Once the watch is completely immersed, the air pressure is slowly released. If bubbles come out of the watch it means that the watch is not water resistant. We use this method is generally used as a second test.
When a Watch Becomes a Timepiece ...
"It’s strange, but when a watch becomes a timepiece, we expect it to be worn by a gentleman. Truly, we can’t explain why; it has no connection with reason, or indeed,common sense for that matter, nevertheless, it’s the feeling that a LIGURE timepiece evokes. In an odd way, it transports you back in time to a slightly more formal age, but in an informal way. It’s not ‘retro’ in the true sense, but when you glance at it there’s just a hint of time gone by, and then it’s gone"
Don Russell, Watch Writer
