Where imagination
meets precision
A celebration of ingenuity, craft and the pursuit of mechanical beauty – Christopher Ward at its most ambitious.
Atelier isn't just a collection.
It's a commitment to
in-house innovation.
Every watch here began with our engineering team asking: what if we could answer this ourselves? Since 2011, when we created the first JJ01 jumping hour module, we've been designing and building our own calibres and modules within Christopher Ward.
FS01, JJ01, the CW-003
with its six days of reserve – each one exists because we refused to accept the standard.
This is what that commitment looks like: finishing where every detail exists because it
needed to, and then we take it one step further.
“Every Atelier Collection watch began as a problem we weren’t sure we could solve.”
Frank Stelzer, Technical Director
From curiosity to creation
The driving force behind Atelier is a simple question: can we do better? Can we engineer smarter? Design bolder? Refuse to accept what's expected?
It's that spirit – curious, unflinching, technically obsessed – that distinguishes every Atelier watch. The JJ01 jump hour that started it all. The CW-001 (formerly known as SH21) with its 120-hour power reserve. The CW-003 calibre engineered around an exposed balance wheel that's never been seen before on a Christopher Ward. Not trophies. Living proof of what happens when imagination meets technical excellence, and you follow both through.
Calibre JJ04
We wanted a moon phase that was bold. Where most watches offer only the tiniest of apertures, ours is designed to be impossible to miss. More than that: we made it perpetual, linking the movement of the moon directly to the gear train in smooth, continuous motion. The result? Accuracy that won't be off by even a day for 128 years. That's not just a complication. That's a promise.
Calibre CW-001
(Formerly
SH21)
Our first-ever in-house movement, and an immensely stable COSC-certified calibre with a remarkable 120-hour power reserve, achieved through twin mainspring barrels. Built from around 198 parts, it's as handsome as it is high performance. Over a decade old, the CW-001 continues to be a reliable and much-loved calibre and proof that strength and beauty aren't mutually exclusive.
Calibre CW-001
(Formerly
SH21)
Our first-ever in-house movement, and an immensely stable COSC-certified calibre with a remarkable 120-hour power reserve, achieved through twin mainspring barrels. Built from around 198 parts, it's as handsome as it is high performance. Over a decade old, the CW-001 continues to be a reliable and much-loved calibre and proof that strength and beauty aren't mutually exclusive.
Calibre JJ04
We wanted a moon phase that was bold. Where most watches offer only the tiniest of apertures, ours is designed to be impossible to miss. More than that: we made it perpetual, linking the movement of the moon directly to the gear train in smooth, continuous motion. The result? Accuracy that won't be off by even a day for 128 years. That's not just a complication. That's a promise.
Calibre CW-003
Our second in-house movement, and the most ambitious yet. Built around one central idea: to centre an exposed balance wheel that's never been seen before in a Christopher Ward. With 144 hours of power reserve – an extra day beyond CW-001 – and a custom free-sprung balance wheel, the CW-003 represents everything we've learned about solving problems beautifully. It's not just a movement. It's a revolution in motion.
Calibre FS01
Three years. That's how long it took from first sketch to that first chime. Frank Stelzer saw that we could modify the JJ01 jumping hour to create something no one expected: an hourly sonnerie au passage – a watch that chimes the passing of time. Eighty different springs and hammers were tested and rejected before we achieved the perfect note. When the C1 Bel Canto launched, the watch world took notice. We'd made something that shouldn't have been possible at this price point.
Calibre FS01
Three years. That's how long it took from first sketch to that first chime. Frank Stelzer saw that we could modify the JJ01 jumping hour to create something no one expected: an hourly sonnerie au passage – a watch that chimes the passing of time. Eighty different springs and hammers were tested and rejected before we achieved the perfect note. When the C1 Bel Canto launched, the watch world took notice. We'd made something that shouldn't have been possible at this price point.
Calibre CW-003
Our second in-house movement, and the most ambitious yet. Built around one central idea: to centre an exposed balance wheel that's never been seen before in a Christopher Ward. With 144 hours of power reserve – an extra day beyond SH21 – and a custom free-sprung balance wheel, the CW-003 represents everything we've learned about solving problems beautifully. It's not just a movement. It's a revolution in motion.
Calibre JJ01
There’s always been something fascinatingly off-kilter about a jumping hour watch, an underrepresented but charming horological backwater which embraces the digital – but only so far. Their unique displays (a window for the hour) open up a myriad design possibilities, making the best of these watches eccentric, lovable, but surprisingly practical too. In retrospect, it seems entirely in character that Christopher Ward’s first in-house module, JJ01, should be something as unexpected as this – and that it should solve an ongoing horological issue is but the icing on the cake. Something that had long frustrated master watchmaker Johannes Jahnke is that, with most jumping hours, the hour number would never flip over exactly as the minute hand passed the hour mark. But his design would be different: it would distribute the power needed to jump the disk across the full hour, rather than a short build-up towards its end, making for a just-so turnover.
The Atelier Collection
Each Atelier watch tells a different story. But they share one thing: every detail of each calibre or module earned its place through relentless engineering and finishing that refuses to compromise.
C12 LOCO
C12 LOCO
Calibre CW-003
Driven by the in-house CW-003 calibre, the C12 Loco turns mechanical mastery into modern art.
BEL CANTO
BEL CANTO
Calibre FS01
GPHG “Petite Aiguille” winner – Bel Canto elevates the art of watchmaking into an experience for both eye and ear.
Bel Canto Classic
Bel Canto Classic
Calibre FS01
Refined to its essence, Bel Canto Classic distills the beauty of our award-winning chiming watch into its most timeless form.
C1 MOONPHASE
C1 MOONPHASE
Calibre JJ04
Our ingenious module, JJ04, tracks the moon’s orbit in perpetuity for 128 years - as beautiful as it is brilliant.
C1 MOONGLOW
C1 MOONGLOW
Calibre JJ04
Driven by JJ04, twin luminous moons glide in perpetual harmony - capturing both science and spectacle.
THE TWELVE X (Ti)
THE TWELVE X (Ti)
Calibre CW-001 (Formerly SH21)
Featuring a skeletonised CW-001 – The Twelve X (Ti) is a bold expression of engineering laid bare.
C1 Jump hour mk v
C1 Jump hour mk v
Calibre JJ01
JJ01 achieves exceptional timekeeping by drawing a consistent amount of power to create a crisp, instantaneous jump.
The next chapter is
already ticking.
This is our commitment: that curiosity, precision, and bold thinking will always find a home here. That we'll keep asking the questions others have stopped asking. That every year, we'll find new ways to push what's possible in watchmaking.
