L’équilibre du temps et de l’espace

For AKHOR, independent Geneva Maison founded by Anissa Bader in 2025, giving time a physical presence has always been the point — the Le Temps en Équilibre collection suspends its dial in space through a movement built specifically for that purpose. To bring that idea to the screen, Swiss filmmaker Nicolas Haeni didn’t shoot a watch film in the usual sense. He built a choreography around it: dancers moving on a sculptural steel structure designed by Bastien Dausse, their bodies working through the same forces the watch itself is built to hold — gravity, tension, balance — until the mechanics of the piece and the mechanics of the movement start to look like the same language.

The result speaks less to spec sheets than to instinct. It’s aimed at collectors and connoisseurs who already read watchmaking as craft and culture, at the media and GPHG circles that follow independent horology closely, and at anyone drawn to design and movement even without a watch background — an audience that responds to a brand shown through feeling rather than told through features. What it leaves behind is less a product demonstration than a mood: the sense, as founder Anissa Bader puts it, that “a watch does not merely measure time — it expresses a personal relationship with it.” That’s the message AKHOR wanted this film to carry, and the one it was built to earn.