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Gérald Genta

27 watches in the catalog carry a design attributed to this designer.

What the catalog says

  • Gerald Genta designed it; the case was 39mm steel (gigantic for the era), the bezel a tonneau-octagonal with eight exposed hex screws, the bracelet integrated and tapered.
  • The Roma was designed by Gerald Genta, whose octagonal vocabulary also produced the Royal Oak and Nautilus.
  • Gerald Genta designed it (same hand as the Royal Oak); the 42mm case was massive for the era.
  • The Polerouter Microtor is the watch that introduced the micro-rotor automatic to the wristwatch world, designed by Gerald Genta in 1954 for Scandinavian Airlines' polar route between Europe and North America.
  • r-vc-overseas-41 r-vacheron-overseas-automatic r-vacheron-overseas-world-time Three honest questions for any Overseas buyer: Overseas versus Nautilus or Royal Oak: what is actually different? The Nautilus and Royal Oak are both designed by

These are the sentences already written elsewhere in this catalog. We have not written a biography, because we would be writing it from memory rather than from sources.

Lines whose design is attributed to Gérald Genta

The attribution is to the family design rather than to each individual reference. A later watch in a line carries the design without having been drawn by the designer personally.

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