The present watch sees the unlikely merge of Louis Erard a brand celebrating its 90th anniversary today and known for its classical watches and Vianney Halter the enfant terrible of watchmaking who took the world by storm in 1998 with his mind boggling perpetual calendar Antiqua – a steampunk UFO straight out of the whirlwinding imagination of Jules Verne or H.G. Wells- that modified our perception of fine watchmaking.