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Workshop
You've never assembled a watch yourself, have you? But now you can: We run watchmaking courses in our workshop for interested parties (aged 12 and over). You can take apart and assemble a Unitas pocket watch movement under expert supervision.
Workshop
You've never assembled a watch yourself, have you? But now you can: We run watchmaking courses in our workshop for interested parties (aged 12 and over). You can take apart and assemble a Unitas pocket watch movement under expert supervision.
Family
Workshop
Never assembled a watch yourself before? Now you can do just that. You can take apart and reassemble a Unitas pocket watch movement under expert supervision.
Of course, we will credit you the amount if you buy a watch from us at a later date. (The individual prices cannot be combined). As a course participant, you will also receive a Maurice De Mauriac surprise gift and free admission to the Beyer Watch Museum.
Prices
250.00 per person from a minimum of 2 persons to a maximum of 9 persons
Extra Option
Guided tour through the Beyer watch Museum costs extra 50.00 - per person and only possible from 10 persons - The tour lasts 1 hour incl. expert who leads the tour. Groups of 20 people or more are only possible by splitting up and combining with the Beyer watch Museum. (From 7 persons there are no extra costs)
A family member will tell you about the history of the watchmaking industry and that of our Maurice de Mauriac watch manufactory. You will then be placed in the skilled hands of our watchmakers, who will first explain what makes a mechanical watch and why it ticks. Then it’s “hands on” – with watchmaker’s clothing and a magnifying glass, you’ll go straight to the open UNITAS watch movement. This is 10 times larger than a conventional movement. The watchmaker disassembles the pocket watch movement and explains each part to you. But you have to be careful, because afterwards you have to put it back together again.
Families, friends and teams take the opportunity to enjoy a shared experience that not only brings the mechanical watch to life, but is also useful as a team-building exercise, as you reassemble a complete movement together and it ticks at the end.
Workshop
+ Watch
Watchmaking course II builds on the knowledge gained in watchmaking course I. In the continuation course, you will assemble your own Maurice De Mauriac watch in around two hours under the guidance of professionals. You can choose from various versions of the Icon L1 design. The watchmakers will engrave a personalised engraving on the rotor, for example your initials, making the watch an unmistakably unique piece, especially with this experience. The course costs as much as the L1 you choose plus 150.00 per hour.
Note
If you would like to assemble a different watch, this is also possible after consultation with us
Workshop
as Team
Large families, groups of friends or teams take the opportunity to enjoy a shared experience that not only brings the mechanical watch to life, but also changes your relationship with time for life. For groups of 7 people or more, we will be happy to receive your enquiry and work with you to decide how we can realise your event.
Prices
250,- per person from at least 2 persons - 20 persons.
Extra Option
Guided tour through the Beyer watch Museum costs extra 50.00 - per person and only possible from 10 persons - The tour lasts 1 hour incl. expert who leads the tour. Groups of 20 people or more are only possible by splitting up and combining with the Beyer watch Museum. (From 7 persons there are no extra costs)
Voucher
The watchmaking courses are also an ideal gift - vouchers are available in our workshop or here. Please note that a private watchmaking course is only possible for a minimum of 2 people, i.e. CHF 500.00. The watchmaking courses are also an ideal gift vouchers are available from us in the workshop or here. Please note a private watchmaking course is only possible for a minimum of 2 people, i.e. CHF 500.00.
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Companies that have already booked with us:
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6,300 CHF
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12,450 CHF
Rest Day @dakarrally 🏜️🏁
We are proud to be the official timekeeper of the @oasis_rally_team
📸 @suseheinz_official
#MauriceDeMauriac #MDM #dakarrally #oasisrallyteam #racing
The team’s Lada Niva is the perfect symbol of the @dakarrally spirit. Not a polished promise of high technology, but an honest character. Angular, robust, reliable. A vehicle that doesn’t ask whether the road is comfortable, but whether it is possible. In the same way, the Lada moves through landscapes larger than any ego and through days longer than any comfort zone.
We are proud to be part of this years Dakar with the @oasis_rally_team 🏜️🏁
#MauriceDeMauriac #MDM #dakarrally #oasisrallyteam
This watch rises from the sands of the Dakar. 🏜️🏁
Built on the Chrono Modern — the Oasis Rally Team watch carries our DNA within it: clear, honest, uncompromising. Its sand-coloured dial with fine texture feels as though the desert wind itself has shaped it. It captures the light of the Dakar and carries it forward — through the stages and into the everyday life of true rally enthusiasts. The tachymeter in the colours of blue flames evokes heat, energy, and passion.
The serrated bezel stands for resilience, reducing glare under extreme conditions; the heat-resistant textile strap is made for dust, heat, and constant movement. Sapphire crystal with double-sided anti-reflective coating, 100 metres of water resistance, and a robust stainless-steel case make this watch a companion that doesn’t ask questions — it simply goes with you.
Inside beats the ETA 7750. Visible through the sapphire case back, defying every movement. Here, mechanics become emotion. Time gains body and soul.
This watch is not a souvenir of the Dakar.
It is part of it.
#MauriceDeMauriac #MDM #dakarrally #oasisrallyteam
Welcome to the toughest race on the planet: Dakar Rally 🏜️🏁 - and we are part of it @oasis_rally_team
It is not a race in the conventional sense. It is a trial that does not reward speed, but attitude. Precision. For us, this rally is a return to a feeling that runs deeper than motorsport. It is the sense of time as a companion, not an opponent. In the Dakar Classic, time is not chased — it is read. Stages are not won; they are passed. Every second matters because it tells whether human, machine, and moment were in harmony.
Sladi is back behind the wheel at the Dakar Classic. His Lada Niva has been refined with everything learned from the last Dakar, and there it stood — first vehicle on the grid, still in the dark, restless, tires clawing at the ground.
We are proud to be part of this years Dakar with the @oasis_rally_team 🏜️🏁
#MauriceDeMauriac #MDM #dakarrally #oasisrallyteam
Happy New Year 2026✨ A new year, a new chapter and endless possibilities ahead. This year will be all about exceptional watches, meaningful experiences and moments shared with new & old friends.
Thank you for being part of our story.
Let’s make this year one to remember 🙏🏻
Your Royal Dreifuss Family ❤️
📸 @philippmueller69
#MauriceDeMauriac #MDM #happynewyears #2026
Before we look forward we look back with our TIMEpaper. Full of stories of the last years.
Slide in our DM’s or get your copy in our atelier in Zurich.
#MauriceDeMauriac #MDM #newspaper
Holiday Season Drink Idea: The Coffee Mary ☕️🥃🎄
As Sandro, our ambassador, star of the bar, and espresso machine, has selected a Holiday Season cocktail for us that brings the spice and complexity of Christmas to your palate. This cocktail earned him the title of vice world champion:
Coffee Mary
50 ml espresso
50 ml sweet red pepper juice
50 ml vodka – cascara infused
15 ml del maguey crema de mezcal
25 ml Amalfi lemon cordial
05 ml house red wine
4 dashes tobacco red pepper sauce
#MauriceDeMauriac #MDM #Cocktail #coffeemarry
Mastering Holiday Season Style with the L3 Small Seconds✨1x watch - 6 colors - 1000 ways to wear.
A watch that is launched directly with six colours does not expect you to match the watch. It wants to match: black, white and cherry blossom as well as spherical blue, spherical green and spherical burgundy (a first in our colour palette) make the L3 Small Seconds look like six different watches. Complemented by a brushed stainless steel case or a DLC-coated stainless steel case for a darker look, their elegance is very attractive to many. Combined with a leather or Milanese strap, even crossover with a Nato strap, almost anyone can get the watch that suits them perfectly.
Photos: @philippmueller69
Talent: @tabita_johannes
H&M: @tanyakoch
Location: @thedoldergrand
#MauriceDeMauriac #MDM #L3SmallSeconds #L3
Events
THRYVE Concept Store
01 .10 – 01 .02
Location: Bärengasse 16, 8001 Zurich
Concept stores are very special places in themselves. So we present ourselves there in a very special way. With the smallest watch boutique in the world. You can “talk” there with the concept watches from our City Date collection. And gaze at other watches that simply stare back at you in a relaxed manner.
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