CHANEL is the French luxury house established by Gabrielle Chanel in Paris in 1910, with Swiss-developed and Swiss-assembled watchmaking that translates the maison's fashion, fragrance and jewelry codes into timepieces.
Open in The Dial AtlasThe CHANEL entry in The Dial Atlas currently connects 1 cataloged reference across 1 family. The catalog records 1910 as its founding year and France as its associated country. The maker is organized here as a navigable set of family and exact-reference records. These counts describe the structured archive available on this site, not the brand's complete historical output.
Start with Première Galon (1 reference). Each family page keeps related watches together while preserving the reference codes, production periods, variants, and imagery that distinguish one execution from another. This makes the brand page a practical index for moving from a maker-level overview to the evidence attached to an individual watch.
Use the family links below to compare catalog breadth, follow production generations, and open the interactive Atlas view. Where the source data is available, reference dossiers surface case and dial details, movements, complications, nicknames, and current or discontinued status. The archive is designed to make both celebrated models and less familiar executions discoverable through stable, ordinary links.