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Natural stone and garden design inspiration for a community-driven release.
Since its founding, Atelier Wen has positioned itself as a link between contemporary watchmaking and Chinese cultural heritage. Created by Robin Tallendier and Wilfried Buiron, the brand has steadily built its own design identity, drawing from architecture, traditional crafts and modern manufacturing. The Perception collection, its integrated-bracelet sports watch, has become the core expression.
Introduced as a platform for experimentation, the Millésime series adds a yearly, community-focused layer to Perception, allowing Atelier Wen to explore new materials and ideas within a limited but accessible format. The Millésime 2025 edition, Perception (Xuán), after the 2024 titanium and purple dial release, marks the first update to the series and introduces a new dial material, natural pietersite. Inspired by the mountain-water landscape gardens, the watch places nature at the centre of its design.
The Millésime 2025 edition case retains the familiar Perception construction, crafted from 904L stainless steel, with alternating brushed and polished surfaces. Measuring 40mm in diameter, 47mm lug-to-lug and just 9.4mm thick including the crystal, the case has a slim, well-balanced profile. It is topped with a double-domed sapphire crystal with extensive anti-reflective coating. The semi-display caseback, decorated with a hammered texture and Atelier Wen’s signature stone lion motif, allows a partial view of the mechanism. Water resistance is 100m.
The four-layer dial is the main news and the highlight of the Perception (Xuán) edition. With its swirling patterns and deep blue-black tones shot through with gold and brown, the natural pietersite was chosen to repeat the sensation of movement and layered composition of classical mountain-water gardens. Working with pietersite is complex due to its brittleness: the twelve apertures for the applied hour markers are wire-cut by hand in Zhejiang, before polishing in Guangdong. The dial offers depth, motion and a distinctly organic character, framed by a chapter ring featuring a Chinese huiwen pattern rendered in Super-LumiNova.
The watch is powered by a customised Dandong Peacock SL1588A automatic movement. The movement runs at 28,800 vibrations/hour, offers a power reserve of approximately 41 hours and is regulated to within ±10 seconds per day after adjustment in five positions and temperature testing.
The integrated bracelet is also executed in 904L stainless steel and features finely chamfered links. It tapers from 22mm to 18mm at the clasp and features quick-release spring bars and a proprietary, on-the-fly micro-adjustment.
The Atelier Wen Millésime Perception 2025 (Xuán) Pietersite is available through a time-limited order window from 28 January to 6 February 2026. The first 225 pieces will be delivered in Q2 2026, with subsequent orders scheduled for Q4 2026. Early access is granted to the Atelier Wen community. The retail price is USD 3,600, excluding taxes and duties, with sales handled directly through atelierwen.com.
