A magical take on Haute Horlogerie combining a playful display of time with Disney’s Mickey Mouse and an on-demand chiming time. The octagonal case celebrating Gérald Genta design masterpieces.

For its very first participation in Only Watch, Gérald Genta is unveiling a minute repeater watch with Disney’s Mickey Mouse playfully indicating the time.

This beloved character has played a central role in the Gérald Genta brand since the 1980s. Mr. Genta, the “Picasso of watchmaking” who gave his name to the watch brand, was bold enough to combine cartoon characters with high-complication watchmaking from 1984 onwards. This was a radical new direction in watchmaking – whimsical and daring.

Now, under the lead of Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini and on the initiative of La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, the Gérald Genta team is celebrating Disney’s 100th anniversary as well as the 50th anniversary of the Maestro’s first watch under his own name in 1973, with a joyful enameled Mickey Mouse in the iconic Gérald Genta octagonal case, here crafted from white gold.

Mickey’s swiveling arm, pointing to the retrograde minutes along an arch marked 0 to 60 paired with a jumping hour complication, and the minute repeater chiming the precise hour are three key ingredients in the Gérald Genta brand’s DNA. Though occasionally sketched by the Maestro himself, this masterpiece is the first Gérald Genta watch combining these elements together. A very meaningful design for Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini, who spent many years working for Mr. Genta.