Thanksgiving weekend saw a blink-or-you?ll-miss-it release from Louis Erard, an independent brand known primarily for their wide array of regulator style watches. A regulator is a watch or a clock with a layout that separates the hour, minute, and seconds hands onto their own distinct axis, a technique used by early horologists to keep an easy to read and set reference time in their workshops as they worked on other projects. Once you get used to seeing time displayed in this way, it?s a quite intuitive method of time telling, and regulator watches have their strident supporters just like any other watch sub-genre. Louis Erard makes plenty of watches that keep all of their hands on the same post, but they?ve made a name for themselves as makers of regulators, and have released them in styles that go well beyond the classic dress watch aesthetic that is most often associated with these timepieces. Their newest release is a collaboration with none other than Vianney Halter, and it gives us a chance not only to talk about a very cool brand that more people should know about, but the increasingly popular practice of watchmakers who live in the world of the very high end lending their names to more commercial products, something we hope to see even more of in the future. 
The Le Régulateur Louis Erard x Vianney Halter, as it?s officially known, is part of an ongoing series undertaken by the brand. Faithful readers might recall that we discussed Louis Erard?s collabor...