It's time: selling my Louis Erard Limited Edition Atelier Oï Le Régulateur Excellence, no. 1/178 | Mint with additional OEM strap, B&P, and OEM warranty

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On offer is Louis Erard’s limited edition collaboration with Swiss design firm Atelier Oï at the lowest price currently available worldwide, as I simple don’t wear the watch enough to justify owning it.

The sale includes a mint condition OEM calf nubuck leather strap in dark blue, which matches the dial’s heat-blued hands. The watch is covered by Louis Erard’s international warranty until February 5, 2025.

Please see my post on r/watchexchange for additional images.

Asking $3400 via Zelle, Venmo, or PayPal FF. Shipping is free in the CONUS or approximately $100 outside of the contiguous USA, depending on location. In-person delivery is possible in or near Orange County, CA.

I recently sold an Omega Speedmaster on  Reddit and have 20+ years of buying/selling on eBay.

Details:

  • Watch brand: Louis Erard
  • Model: Regulator
  • Calibre: Sellita SW266-1
  • Movement: Automatic
  • Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds
  • Power reserve: Approximately 38 hours
  • Case: Original polished steel
  • Documents: Original warranty, operating instructions, limited edition certification
  • Case: Polished steel
  • Case dimensions: 42mm
  • Case Back: See through sapphire crystal
  • Glass: Domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment on both sides
  • Water resistance: 5 bars (50 m/165 ft)
  • Dial: “Black Or” slate grey, matte and polished, 60 planed lines marking the minutes
  • Hands: Blue baton hands
  • Straps: “Covey” grey calf nubuck leather with tone-on-tone stitching, and OEM dark blue calf nubuck leather
  • Buckle: Pin buckle, original polished steel
  • Strap Dimensions: 22/20 mm, 80/115 mm
  • Manufacturer reference: 85237AA53.BVA33
  • Warranty: OEM, valid until February 2025

About telling the time: as several reviews mention, it's can be a little difficult to tell the time at first but becomes seamless after a little experience with the watch. It took me less than one day to adjust.

It might be difficult to tell from the main picture, but every fifth ray is slightly larger and more reflective than those in between. This useful distinction between major and minor indices makes it easy to gauge the time at a quick glance.

Please check the additional pictures for further illustration; the distinction seems to be represented more clearly there.

Here is some additional information about the watch:

  • For this new collaboration, Louis Erard turns to architecture and design with atelier oï, a regional company that has been shining internationally for 30 years, and a radiant watch, too. atelier oï proceeded in a basic way: “To radiate from the centre outwards.” Taking care to reduce the technical vocabulary as much as possible, reminiscent of the shape of a sundial. The result is a surface engraved with asymmetrical rays, the light of which reveals reflections and contrasts – echoing the passion of the members of atelier oï for the material and the play of light. The art of engraving being expressed here in its essence: drawn lines. These lines create a space, to which the hands add the dimension of time. Louis Erard marks a new stage in the accessible creation watch, with a fresh look at all the crafts that make up watchmaking.
  • For this new collaboration, Louis Erard turns to architecture and design with atelier oï, a regional company that has been shining internationally for 30 years, and a radiant watch, too. How to materialise space and time? How to materialise the contemporary spirit of the watch when connected technology has disconnected watchmaking from its primary necessity: telling the time? Louis Erard invited atelier oï to look into the question and the answer is a new original dial, the third part of the series of collaborations already co-signed by Alain Silberstein and Vianney Halter. Once more based on the emblematic model of the Maison: the regulator. Once again with the desire to bring together key players in traditional watchmaking culture. And again with the desire to bring together key players in Swiss know-how: atelier oï and Louis Erard are both regional companies of international stature.
  • Breaking new ground, the collaboration leaves the strict field of watchmaking, since atelier oï works in the fields of architecture and design. The invitation did not come about by accident, however. The workshop, based in La Neuveville, a satellite town of Neuchâtel, has been close to the watchmaking industry since its creation precisely thirty years ago and the watchmaking world has played a major part in the development of the company. Going back as far as the 1990s, there has also been a warm relationship between atelier oï and Louis Erard, as illustrated by the current manager Manuel Emch, who began his career with an internship at atelier oï and who has collaborated with it ever since. In three decades, atelier oï has become a brand in itself, reputed around the world, rewarded with more than thirty distinctions which illustrate its uniqueness. Moreover, the name, oï, is borrowed from the Russian Troika, a word that symbolises the energy generated by a trio, in this case, Aurel Aebi, Armand Louis and Patrick Reymond, the three co-founders.
  • The objective, for Louis Erard, is once again to break down barriers in the world and make accessible what is often reserved for specialist clientele. With this added challenge of plunging without a net into contemporary creation, with all that entails of references, reflections, diversions and shocks. atelier oï proceeded in a basic way: “To radiate from the centre outwards.” Taking care to reduce the technical vocabulary as much as possible, reminiscent of the shape of a sundial. The result is a surface engraved with asymmetrical rays, the light of which reveals reflections and contrasts – echoing the passion of the members of atelier oï for the material and the play of light. The art of engraving being expressed here in its essence: drawn lines. These lines create a space, to which the hands add the dimension of time. Le Régulateur has naturally imposed its own rhythm: the hands (hour, minute, second) become centres from which rays emerge, generating visual kinetics that each movement of the wrist animates, giving the two-dimensional dial the depth of a radiant architecture. A pure work of art, which nothing can break, not even the Louis Erard logo.
  • Reading the time comes out somewhat dematerialised – you have to mentally reconstruct the puzzle of hour angles – but all the links are not broken: the minute-circle still appears around the edge of the dial, with a more pronounced line every five minutes and exactly sixty segments. A nod from atelier oï to the smartphone generation: “Today, the object watch has another meaning.”

Here are some reviews:

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