Van Bergen 1795 is a Dutch watch maison whose roots stretch back 230 years — to a carpenter named Andries Heeres who recast a cracked church bell in Midwolda in 1795 and began a dynasty of bronze and precision. For six generations, the Van Bergen family measured time with sound: their bells marked the hours in cathedrals, their tower clocks served cities, and their carillons — celebrated at the world fairs of Vienna, London, Philadelphia, and Paris in the 1870s — became the global gold standard of the craft. Van Bergen bells ring at Arlington National Cemetery, gifted by Queen Juliana to President Truman in 1952. In 1956 they recast 58 bells for the Riverside Church in New York on a Rockefeller commission. The foundry cast its last bell on 11 April 1980 — not an ending, but a transformation awaiting its hour. That hour came in 2026 with the Heero Collection: the seventh generation of Van Bergen, now on the wrist. The inaugural piece is named for Heero Andries van Bergen, born 1738, whose precision founded the dynasty. At its heart beats the Calibre VBA01 — an in-house manufacture automatic with a micro-rotor, just 2.5 mm thin, built around a half-hour sonnerie au passage with the largest hammer ever set into a wristwatch. Limited to 230 individually numbered pieces across five dial variants, the Heero made its world première at Top Marques Monaco in May 2026, under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II, to whom the first Pièce Unique — bearing the Princely coat of arms hand-painted by Swiss miniaturist André Martinez — was personally presented.