In Sydney, 2011, A French-Swiss expat walks along a beach and finds sand, coal, and red earth at his feet. He asks himself "what if a watch could carry the country inside it?"

That walk became Bausele, a physical answer to that question:

A watch that holds a piece of Australia sealed inside every watches Crown Chamber.

Fifteen years and fifteen thousand customers later, Bausele's have found their way onto wrists in over fifty different countries.

These are the watches from that journey

The First Collection, Dressed For The Occasion

Bausele Winebar

This was the first watch to carry Australian earth in its crown. A cushion case and clean dial, this watch was built for the person who lives between the boardroom and the beach.

High Tide, Low Tide, Always On Time

Bausele OceanMoon I

The OceanMoon brought the ocean into the mechanism itself. A tide indicator inspired by the Australian coastline. The sea glass in the crown wasn't decorative. It belonged there.

Ten Minutes Until The Start Gun

Bausele Yachting Timer

The Yachting Timer was built for competition, a chronograph designed around the ten-minute countdown of offshore yacht racing.

Basel, Switzerland - 2014

Bausele becomes the first Australian watch brand ever invited to Baselworld

Three years after Catherine Hill Bay, Bausele walked into the world's most important watch trade fair. Not as a visitor, but as an exhibitor.

The first Australian brand in Baselworld history, presenting three new models to the global watch industry.

A case material made in Australia

Bausele Terra Australis

The Terra Australis introduced Bauselite, a proprietary composite material developed in joint venture with Flinders University in Adelaide. Not sourced, not imported, but engineered in Australia, for a watch that carries Australia in every layer.

Five Oceans & One Obsession

Bausele OceanMoon II

The OceanMoon began in 2011 as one of Bausele's founding three watches. By 2014, the second iteration was turning heads at Baselworld.

With a tide indicator, Australian sea glass in the crown and an unmistakable case, it was the most popular Bausele model. Five versions later, it remained the best-selling Bausele collection.

Some watches arrive before the world is ready

Bausele Pilot Automatic

Debuting in 2015, the Pilot Automatic was Christophe's love letter to the Vacheron Constantin American 1921 — the legendary 1921 driver's watch with its crown at 2 o'clock.

With bold numerals, an open heart movement and a case that made no apologies, the watch community wasn't ready for it. But for those who loved it, it became a pivotal watch in their collection.

The tide keeps changing

Bausele OceanMoon III

In 2016, the OceanMoon evolved again. In its third iteration, it featured a refined case and dial with the same tide indicator that started it all in 2011.

We've had a few 'pinch-ourselves' moments building Bausele. This was the biggest

An icon comes knocking

Bausele Vintage 2.0 Sydney Opera House

In 2018, the Sydney Opera House came calling. The brief was simple: create something as iconic as the building itself. We designed a dial with moving sail elements and a piece of the Sydney Opera Houses tile in the Crown Chamber.

We liked it so much we kept it. The Noosa took that same case architecture and carried it forward, the same fluid integration, the same fit, a watch that disappears on the wrist and becomes part of you.

The smartwatch that didn't look like one.

Bausele Vintage 2.0

The Vintage 2.0 wasn't a tech watch pretending to be a dress watch. It was both.

Built in collaboration with Frédérique Constant, one of Switzerland's most respected manufactures, it connected to your phone, tracked your activity, and looked nothing like the gadgets everyone else was strapping to their wrists. The design drew from the watches of the 1970s we've always loved.

Swiss movement. Swiss partner. Australian soul. And technology that most brands wouldn't touch for another five years.

Bausele has never followed trends. The Vintage 2.0 is proof it never needed to.

Selected To Mark A Century

Bausele was honoured to be selected as the official watch of the Royal Australian Air Force centenary celebrations. We created two watches made to mark it.

A gift from the RAAF

Bausele RAAF Aviator

In 2021, the Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force, Mel Hupfeld, handed Bausele something irreplaceable; a piece of the first FA-18 ever assembled in Australia.

It became part of the Bausele Aviator, produced for the RAAF's centenary. A fragment of that aircraft was sealed inside every Aviators Crown Chamber, available exclusively to serving members of the RAAF.

For the public this new watch design became the OceanMoon IV, featuring The same anti-magnetic case and compressor-style twin screw-down crowns, featuring different elements sealed inside the Crown Chamber and a range of new dial colours.

A piece of Hercules on the wrist

Bausele RAAF Airfield

The Bausele Airfield came from a second gift, a fragment of a Hercules aircraft from Richmond Royal Air Force Base that was handed to Bausele as part of the RAAF centenary collaboration. It was sealed in the crown of this limited edition available exclusively to serving members of the RAAF.

For the public, this watch design was adapted to the Kimberley, a time-only watch with a metallic blue dial inspired by the rich oceans that meet the Kimberley desert. Inside the Crown Chamber, red earth from the desert itself.

Geneva, Switzerland - 2023 & 2024

In 2023, Bausele was part of the official selection of Geneva Watch Days, returning for a second consecutive year in 2024.

That same year, Bausele presented at the largest watch industry gathering in the world, Watches & Wonders, hosting invited clients at the Beau Rivage, one of Geneva's most storied hotels, where the watches were seen in the way they deserve to be.

Built to US Military specification MIL-W-46374F

Bausele MIL-SPEC

When the US Army sets the standard, we build to it.

The MIL-SPEC debuted in 2022, designed from the ground up to meet MIL-W-46374F — the United States Military specification for general purpose wrist watches, approved by all Departments and Agencies of the Department of Defense.

Featuring a 24-hour dial, an anti-magnetic movement and luminous hands and numerals, it wasn't inspired by military watches, but built to the same standard as one.

The perfect everyday dive watch

Bausele Sydney Diver

The Sydney Diver was built for Australian waters.

Featuring 200-metres water resistance, a unidirectional elapsed time bezel, and luminous indices and bezel markings, it was available in a range of dial colours.

The Crown Chamber held Australian sea glass and housed inside was a Swiss movement inside. A tool watch in every sense and unmistakably Bausele.

The one we always wanted to make

Bausele OceanMoon V

The OceanMoon V kept everything that made its predecessor worth wearing: anti-magnetic movement, compressor-style twin screw-down crowns and a Crown Chamber holding Australian sand, and purified everything else.

No date, a cleaner dial and refined case with finer details throughout.

Fourteen years of building watches distilled into one, the OceanMoon V is the our evolution to create the watch we always wanted to make.

The best Bausele yet is on the way