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The Geneva watch company, Romain Jerome S.A., has announced the appointment of Mr Manuel Emch as its new CEO.
Mr Emch, a Swiss born in 1972, studied design at the Art Center in La Tour de Peilz, before gaining a Master’s degree in business at Lausanne University’s Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC). He began his [...]

Romain Jerome is putting its new website online and inviting you to enter the refined and mysterious universe of its Titanic-DNA and Moon Dust-DNA collections.
View our timepieces from another angle, on your own screens!
www.romainjerome.ch is intended as a faithful virtual mirror of Romain Jerome, combining watchmaking luxury, innovation and creativity, while reflecting the offbeat spirit [...]

Setting the crowning touch to the success of the new self-winding Titanic-DNA watches revisited in grand style, or A la Grande, Romain Jerome presents an original creation, the Tourbillon Steampunk A la Grande.

Within an exceptional timepiece featuring intensely accentuated physical characteristics, brand CEO and designer Yvan Arpa has brought together distinctive bolts, an anchor-shaped off-centred [...]

As part of its Titanic-DNA collection, timepieces inspired by and created in homage to the greatest maritime legend of the last century – The Titanic – the house of Romain Jerome presents a new interpretation of its automatic model: A la Grande
For Baselworld 2009, Yvan Arpa, CEO and designer of Romain Jerome, is re-interpreting the [...]

The Chinese ideogram for crisis, Wei Ji, comprises two parts: “Wei” meaning “danger” and “Ji” meaning “opportunity”.
The prevailing pessimism has not affected the Geneva watchmaker, according to Yvan Arpa, its Managing Director: “We don’t only manufacture luxury products, we create luxury. The materiality of the crisis has not affected the environment and values we have [...]

The concept of Day&Night, a timepiece that does not tell the time, was such a success that Romain Jerome has responded to customers’ demand by developing a new limited edition of 9 timepieces… with hands!
Launched in 2008 at Baselworld, Day&Night was a potent symbol of the philosophical thinking of watchmakers Romain Jerome. It brought a [...]

Exclusive Limited Edition
Technical specifications
BNB Caliber 1000RJ Tourbillon
Mechanical movement with manual winding-mechanism
A one-minute tourbillon suspended without ball bearing is arranged at 6 O’clock
Frequency: 21,600 vph
Jewels: 19
Power reserve: 120 hours
Function: hours, minutes, tourbillon
Dial: mineral structure containing Moon dust*
Case: 46 mm
Bezel: Carbon fibres evoke solar panels of spacecraft – titanium and steel comprising fragments from the Apollo XI [...]