ArtyA

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Meinier, Genève, SwitzerlandEst. 2009Yvan Arpa$11,150–$17,400 Website

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Philosophy

Expensive Statement Limited Run Weird Art Kid Grail-esque Skeleton Independent Atelier Hand-Painted Exotic Materials Unique Collectible Design-Forward

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Switzerland 43mm and up Over $1,000

Brand vibe

Yvan Arpa founded it in Geneva in 2009 and calls it a "Manufacture of Emotions," which in practice means dials made from real butterfly wings, meteorite, tobacco leaf, natural pigment and spent .357 casings - many of them hand-created by his wife, the artist Dominique Arpa-Cirpka. Many pieces are one-of-one and complications are usually price on request.

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Case origin

Geneva, Switzerland - 316L steel, DLC and PVD, forged carbon, Damascus steel, full sapphire and proprietary NanoSaphir bicolour sapphire

Dial origin

Hand-made in-house by artist Dominique Arpa-Cirpka: real butterfly wings, natural pigments, gold leaf, meteorite, stone, tobacco leaf and real bullet casings

Hands origin

Not disclosed

Lume type

Not disclosed

Movements

Sourcing Notes: ArtyA describes its movements as designed and manufactured in-house in Geneva, including flying tourbillons, minute repeaters and the COSC-certified Aion/ArtyOn automatic launched around 2018. The A17 automatic used across the steel Son of a Gun and Son of Earth pieces is described as Swiss and in-house modified, but the base ebauche maker is not disclosed. The Judge Tourbillon openly uses a Concepto tourbillon module. Sapphire cases, including the two-tone-in-the-mass NanoSaphir process, are a house specialty, though the sapphire blank supplier is not named. Dial art is credited to Dominique Arpa-Cirpka. Hands and lume suppliers are not disclosed.

Cost Transparency

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Ships from Meinier, Switzerland

Import duty applies

Current Rate

12.5%

6% HTS + 6.5% Section 301 (forced labor)

Est. Duty

$1394–$2175

on $11150–$17400 watch

Section 301 forced-labor tariff capped at 12.5% total including MFN duty (Trade Act of 1974, effective July 24, 2026). With the ~6% HTS base rate on mechanical watches, the incremental Section 301 duty is 6.5%. Replaces both the struck-down IEEPA reciprocal tariffs and the expired Section 122 surcharge.

Tariffs are assessed based on where the watch is assembled, not where individual components originate. A watch with a Japanese movement assembled in the US incurs no import duty.

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