![]() ![]() Jean-François partnered with Cyrus CEO Ruben Mira Blanco in 2012, shortly after winning the GPHG prize for Best Watchmaker in 2010, bringing his unique vision to the Cyrus brand, named for Cyrus the Great, an ancient king of Persia and Babylon renowned for his contributions to modern civilization.Ĭlaude Greisler, along with his partner Serge Michel, grew up in Burgdorf, Switzerland, the same town in which Armin Strom, a watchmaker famed for his watch skeletonization skills, had his store and workshop. After developing complications for companies including the Swatch Group and IWC, Jean-François established Chronode in 2005 in Le Locle, the historical epicenter of the Swiss watch industry. Fascinated by engineering from a young age, Jean-Francois’s interest in watchmaking was sparked by his father, who worked in the trade. Mojon is the designer behind the iconoclastic timepieces of Swiss micro-brand Cyrus, which will be exhibiting for the first time at a WatchTime event and showcasing its new Klepcys Vertical Skeleton Tourbillon (details here). 1, the original HYT H1, and more recently, the Hermès Arçeau L’Heure de la Lune. ![]() Jean-François Mojon, founder of Chronode, a renowned designer and developer of specialty movements and modules, is a watchmaking mastermind who has collaborated with a number of brands, contributing horological savoir faire to such pieces as the Harry Winston Opus X, the MB&F Legacy Machine No. ![]() Kari Voutilainen at WatchTime New York 2017 You can learn more about him in our profile here. ![]() crowd with the new 28ti, a titanium-cased timepiece with a visible dial-side movement. At WatchTime New York 2018, Kari showed off the innovative 217QRS this year he will wow the WatchTime L.A. He is admired by collectors for his versatility (he has made tourbillons, repeaters, chronographs, GMT watches, watches with detent escapements, and more), for the quality of his finishing, and for his ability and willingness to custom-make watches for individual collectors. Today, Kari is one of the most well-known names on the independent watchmaking scene, specializing in small-series and one-off watches - and also lending his expertise to other independent firms like Armin Strom and MB&F. Except for the few, one-of-a-kind pieces he made under his own label, his work bore the names of others. Just over a dozen years ago, Kari Voutilainen was a horological ghostwriter, working anonymously for various high-end watch brands. Check out our profile of Romain Gauthier here. At this year’s Baselworld, Romain introduced a new Logical One model with a white-gold case with baguette-cut diamonds, a new Insight Micro-Rotor piece with a blue enamel dial, and a stainless steel version of the Prestige HMS with a meteorite dial. Today, the brand offers four in-house-made calibers: Prestige HM, Prestige HMS (launched in 2010), Logical One (unveiled in 2013, the same year it won the GPHG award for Best Men’s Complication), and the Insight Micro-Rotor, which made its debut at Baselworld 2017 and was updated the following year in black and natural titanium versions. Two years after founding his brand, he unveiled the first watches, called Prestige HM. Romain Gauthier is the head of his eponymous 13-year old firm. Trained and certified as a constructor of precision machinery, Romain initially did not intend to make a career in the watch world, yet it drew him in anyways and he’s now one of the most well-regarded makers in this close-knit industry. Here are five of the boldfaced names of horology that you’ll have a chance to meet this weekend during the two-day event at Downtown L.A.’s Hudson Loft. WatchTime Los Angeles, the West Coast’s biggest watch-collector extravaganza, kicks off on May 3, boasting more than 25 luxury watch brands as well as several of the watchmaking world’s rock stars and creative visionaries. ![]()
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