Memoris pays a vibrant tribute to the chronograph – invented by Louis Moinet exactly two hundred years ago. A fun, technical creation, Memoris is the first chronograph-watch in history, displaying all the workings of its chronograph on the dial side. The complication stretches across a star-studded sky – a whimsical tribute to the astronomical observations made by Louis Moinet himself using his own 1816 invention: the Compteur de Tierces, the very first high-frequency chronograph.

Two hundred years on, in 2016 Memoris reveals all the intimacy of this precision complication – one of the most demanding in mechanical watchmaking – sublimating the beauty of each exclusive component, made to measure for Memoris and hand-finished.

“We’re thrilled that the emotion conveyed by Memoris has struck a chord with the connoisseurs of fine watchmaking,” says Ateliers Louis Moinet’s CEO Jean-Marie Schaller. “This distinction is all the more significant in that 2016 is a very special year for us, as we celebrate the bicentenary of the invention of the chronograph by Mr Louis Moinet himself.”

The new “Best of the Best” award follows other honours recently received by Louis Moinet: among them, a First Prize in the International Chronometry Competition’s Tourbillon category, and four Red Dot Design Awards – including a previous “Best of the Best” title.