Daniel Roth has picked up a lot of attention for the last few years, but now let's get back a bit Before Daniel Roth was known like today.

Before establishing his brand in 1989, he worked at Audemars Piguet and Breguet for many years, repairing and creating fine works for both names, including the Breguet ref.3130 power reserved and moon phase, the Perpetual calendar ref.3050ba. The Classique Chronograph ref.3237, just to give you an idea about his work during the time, he's a very well-respected watchmaker among watchmakers.

Once he has started design his watches, some designs were inspired by his late work at Breguet, the blue hands, the small "T" hands style, and the guilloché style dial. But the design that came to his own identity is probably the double eclipse case style.

Here is some of the unique open work piece from Daniel, the master chronograph 447.x in a very rare platinum case base on girard perregaux movement.

Daniel Roth Metropolitan, showing the world time zone just by the push of a button

Another eye-catching Daniel's with chronograph movement by Zenith El Primero, The EI Primero is a movement that stood the test of time, manufacturing since 1969 until today; used and modified in many great brands. Daniel’s used three base chronograph in his watch. The manual wind Lemania (the rarest and most sought after ) second is this example by GP, and the last is El Primero by zenith.

It's estimated that Daniel Roth made only 3,000 pieces (1989-2000) before the brand took over by Bvlgari; that's right around 300-500 pieces per year in every case shape and materials, good condition Daniel’s pop up here and there, keep an eye out ! and if you see something you like, don’t think too long, because they getting bigger and bigger now.