Since its launch in mid-2016, Brellum has quickly become a leader in the arena of small-scale, value-focused Swiss watchmaking. The brand was founded by Sébastien Muller, a fourth-generation watchmaker from Porrentruy, a hidden town in Switzerland?s Canton of Jura with a storied watchmaking history. After turning 40, Muller made the choice to start his own brand so he could make a product that he, and his family, could be proud of.
The last time we visited with Muller for our review of the Duobox Pandial earlier this year, he mentioned that he was working on his first in-house movement with delivery expected near the end of 2018. We recently received word from Muller that the time has come to unveil the watch he’s been working on for the past 18 months, the Wyvern Manufacture Limited Edition. The Brellium Wyvern Manufacture LE.1
The Wyvern Manufacture series consists of two new timepieces, one with a gray dial (LE.1) and one with a white dial (LE.2), set in a 42.5-mm, stainless-steel case. More importantly, and where the manufacture in the title comes from, the two new watches house a brand new caliber, the BR-18 manual-wound movement that boasts a five-day power reserve courtesy of the twin barrels. While this movement has been designated with the perpetually tricky  term “in-house” by Muller, the watch actually uses the technical design of a Technotime 718 caliber as the base. Muller’s contributions include redesigning the bridges to have large...