Renaud Tixier’s Monday was already a watch built around exposure, with its micro-rotor system and open architecture doing much of the talking.
The new Monday Skeleton takes that instinct to its logical end, opening the calibre to reveal all 262 components and putting the finishing work at the centre of the design.
It also gives the young independent brand a more dramatic stage for one of its defining ideas, a rethought micro-rotor winding system designed by Dominique Renaud and Julien Tixier.
At a glance
- Renaud Tixier has introduced the Monday Skeleton, a fully skeletonised version of its debut Monday watch.
- The watch reveals all 262 components and retains the patented micro-rotor winding system with a kinetic propeller mechanism.
- Two editions will be made, each limited to 15 pieces, with either dark green or petrol blue accents.
A more open Monday
Renaud Tixier is built around an unusually specific long-term idea.
The independent house, founded by Dominique Renaud and Julien Tixier, plans to revisit seven core horological principles across seven watches named after the days of the week over a 20-year span.
Monday was the first expression of that programme, focused on the micro-rotor and its limitations as an efficient winding solution.
The Skeleton version doesn’t change that central premise, but it shifts the visual emphasis from partial revelation to full mechanical transparency.
The movement is now the RVI2025, a radically openworked calibre executed in the brand’s workshops in Tolochenaz, near Lake Geneva.
Its contemporary architecture is paired with traditional hand finishing, including black polishing, bevelling, circular graining, Côtes de Genève and rounded bridges.
The most striking figure is not simply the component count, but the 238 inward angles finished by hand, a detail that speaks directly to the labour behind this kind of skeletonisation.
The winding system remains the point
The Monday Skeleton keeps the patented winding mechanism developed by Renaud and Tixier to improve the efficiency of a micro-rotor.
At the heart of the platinum micro-rotor sits a flywheel coupled to a propulsion spring known as the “dancer”.
The idea takes inspiration from energy-recovery technologies in the automotive world, converting small wrist movements into usable winding energy through a spring-loaded, shock-absorbing system.
Renaud Tixier says the mechanism improves winding efficiency by 40 percent.
The latest Monday Skeleton specifications list a minimum power reserve of 72 hours.
It’s a technical proposition, but the skeletonised construction makes it unusually legible, giving the wearer a direct view of the system that defines the watch.
Colour, engraving and enamel
The Monday Skeleton will be offered with either dark green or petrol blue accents.
Those colours appear on the peripheral minutes flange, the chapter ring, the small seconds track and the skeletonised dauphine-style hour and minute hands.
On the reverse, the barrel cover of the mainspring drum is finished in layered Grand Feu enamel, again in either blue or green to match the edition.
The case remains 40.8mm in diameter and 12.6mm thick, or 10.5mm without the domed sapphire crystal.
It is made in 18k grey gold, with the caseband and the area between the lugs engraved by hand with a burin to create an organic textured surface.
That texture is set against polished elements, including the thin bezel, the top surface of the lugs and the outer ring of the caseback.
Each version is paired with a matching hand-stitched alligator leather strap and a white gold pin buckle.
Details & Specifications
| Brand | Renaud Tixier |
|---|---|
| Model | Monday Skeleton |
| Case size | 40.8mm diameter, 12.6mm height; 10.5mm without domed sapphire crystal |
| Case material | 18k grey gold |
| Movement | RVI2025 skeletonised calibre |
| Components | 262 |
| Winding system | Platinum micro-rotor with flywheel and propulsion spring mechanism |
| Power reserve | Minimum 72 hours |
| Finishing | Black polishing, bevelling, circular graining, Côtes de Genève, rounded bridges and 238 hand-finished inward angles |
| Dial accents | Dark green or petrol blue |
| Strap | Matching hand-stitched alligator leather strap |
| Buckle | White gold pin buckle |
| Limited edition | 15 pieces in each colour |
| Price | To be confirmed |
The Monday Skeleton should appeal to collectors who value independent movement architecture as much as dial-side aesthetics.
It doesn’t just remove material for spectacle; it uses skeletonisation to make the Monday’s mechanical argument clearer, more tactile and more demanding to finish.
