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The watchmakers, founders, journalists, and historians who shape how we think about time. Some living, some historical. All worth knowing.

Watchmaker & Inventor

Abraham-Louis Breguet

"The purpose of complications is not to complicate, but to serve."

Breguet

Founder

Asier Mateo

What it’s like changing scale from livable art to wearable art.

Lebond

Founder, Hodinkee

Ben Clymer

"I wanted to write about watches the way great writers wrote about cars or music — with knowledge, passion, and a point of view."

Hodinkee

Founder & CEO

Charles Tremblay

“We didn’t start with the intention of creating luxury. We wanted to create the best possible product. Luxury became the result.”

Charles Simon

Co-Founder & Watchmaker

Christopher Wegener

Pragma was born from a simple question: what if watchmaking could be both exceptional and responsible?

Pragma

Co-Founder & Master Watchmaker

Denis Flageollet

"The tradition of watchmaking has always been to innovate."

De Bethune

Founder & Master Watchmaker

François-Paul Journe

"I don't make watches. I make movements that happen to be in watches."

F.P.Journe

Independent Watchmaker & Inventor

George Daniels

"The purpose of watchmaking is to make a watch that will last indefinitely, and which can be repaired by any competent watchmaker at any time in the future."

Watch Designer

Gerald Genta

"I designed the Royal Oak in one night. But it took me forty years to get to that night."

Founder

Jean-Claude Biver

"We are not in the watch industry. We are in the watchmaking art. And art is different from industry."

Biver

Founder & Creative Director

Jean-Marie Schaller

"In a watch, you see the brain of the engineer, the heart of the designer, the eye of the artist, and the hand of the watchmaker."

Louis Moinet

CEO

Julien Haenny

A product without a story is dead. If you don't know where you want to go, you're lost.

Breva Geneve

Independent Watchmaker

Kari Voutilainen

"I make what I would want to wear. If I wouldn't wear it, I won't make it."

Kari Voutilainen

Founder

Maximilian Büsser

“I think craziness is in the eye of the beholder, like beauty, meaning what is completely normal for me is completely insane for somebody else.”

MB&F

Founder

Michel Parmigiani

"A watch is an act of faith in the future. It is made to last beyond the life of its maker."

Parmigiani Fleurier

Author & Watch Historian

Nick Foulkes

"A watch is the most compressed object of civilisation ever created. Everything humanity has ever done is in there."

Co-Founder

Nicolas G. Hayek

"They told me mechanical watches were dead. I told them that was precisely why I was interested."

Owner & CEO

Pascal Raffy

"Welcome to the good life."

Bovet 1822

Independent Watchmaker

Philippe Dufour

"Finishing is not decoration. It is the watchmaker's signature on every part that will never be seen."

Founder & Master Watchmaker

Rexhep Rexhepi

"I want to make watches that people will be proud to pass to their children. That is the only standard that matters."

Akrivia

Independent Watchmaker

Roger W. Smith

"George taught me that a watch should be made to last 500 years. Everything else follows from that."

Roger W. Smith

President

Thierry Stern

"We don't make watches for the person who buys them. We make them for the person who inherits them."

Patek Philippe

Founder

Thomas Brissiaud

"I wanted to stop referencing the past and just ask: what does a beautiful watch look like today?"

Tessé

Founder, Revolution & The Rake

Wei Koh

"Revolution was created because watch magazines had been placed on the nerd table. The objective was to move the watch magazine to the cool kids' table — the intersection of art, cinema, music and sport, without losing its technical substance."

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