Aerowatch / Renaissance
Aerowatch Renaissance
Collection profile
Aerowatch’s Renaissance collection is the brand’s dedicated skeleton-watch family, centered on hand-wound movements in 43 mm cases with decorated openworked bridges. Current official variants such as Skeleton Classic, Skeleton Blue, Skeleton Wheel and Fir tree Skeleton show the range from traditional Breguet-hand execution to more contemporary black-PVD and colored-ring interpretations.
Why it matters
Renaissance is one of Aerowatch’s clearest identity collections because it concentrates the brand’s craft-focused, decorated-skeleton offering in a coherent family. The current official range shows consistent use of hand-wound ETA/Unitas-derived calibres and multiple aesthetic treatments, helping distinguish Aerowatch from generic mid-priced Swiss dress-watch brands.
Key references
Collection timeline
- 1910 — Aerowatch was founded in La Chaux-de-Fonds, providing the historical Swiss base later used for its skeleton-watch offerings.
- 2018 — Aerowatch’s 2018 digital catalogue listed Renaissance as a named collection, showing it was already an established family by that point.
- 2021 — Aerowatch’s 2021 digital catalogue again listed Renaissance, confirming the collection’s continuity in the modern lineup.
FAQ
What defines the Aerowatch Renaissance collection?
It is Aerowatch’s skeleton-focused collection, built around hand-wound decorated openworked movements in contemporary round cases.
Are current Renaissance watches mechanical?
Yes. Current official Renaissance listings show hand-wound movements, commonly ETA 6497-1 or closely related Unitas-based skeleton calibres.
More from Aerowatch
- Les Grandes Classiques
— Aerowatch’s Les Grandes Classiques is the brand’s broad classical line, spanning slim quartz dress watches, automatic three-handers and larger pilot-style chronographs. Current official models show guilloché or sun-brushed dials, conservative Swiss-made construction and pricing positioned as accessible traditional watchmaking. - 1942 — Aerowatch’s 1942 line is a broad vintage-leaning family that spans classic round dress watches, small seconds, chronographs, moon-phase models, skeletons, and ladies’ variants, making it one of the brand’s core contemporary collections.
- Intuition
— Aerowatch’s Intuition collection is a compact, dress-oriented family centered on elongated rectangular cases, quartz movements, Roman numerals or jeweled dials, and a more jewelry-forward interpretation of the brand’s classic Swiss aesthetic.