Our Story

LAPS was born in Paris in 2016, beneath the glass roof of a workshop on Rue de Bellechasse, on the Left Bank. From the very beginning, we imagined LAPS as a watch editor, with the ambition of making the dial a true space for expression. Nourished by photography, graphic design, and the visual energy of Paris, our first creations already told a different way of approaching the watch: freer, more curious, more personal.

LAPS's first creations take the form of graphic series and editions inspired by image, art and everyday life. With the Éditions collection, each watch becomes a medium for expression, conceived as an object capable of carrying a strong identity on the wrist. Over the years, artistic collaborations, illustrated dials and singular formats all contribute to building a visual language that is free and immediately recognisable.

Over time, we feel the need to go further and work on the watch as a whole. The case, the proportions, the surfaces and the way light reveals volumes all become subjects of creation in their own right. More than a change of direction, this evolution naturally extends what LAPS has been exploring since its beginnings: the relationship between image, form and time.

This new chapter takes shape on Rue Mandar, in the heart of Paris. From one bank to the other, LAPS develops with the Studio collection a more considered approach to the watch, where design, material and volume all contribute to a single balance. Inspired by architecture, design and a certain pursuit of the essential, the collection asserts a more precise language, considered down to the finest detail.