Stories

Two friends and industrial designers, Giovanni Moro and Simone Nunziato, started UNIMATIC in 2015 to make watches in which every design decision serves a function.

Laurent Ferrier, a third-generation Geneva watchmaker, and François Servanin, his teammate at Le Mans, waited 30 years to make their own watch, then won a GPHG prize with it.

In a studio in Schwäbisch Gmünd, the artists Marco Biegert and Andreas Funk spent years on one idea: a display that shows the time as it is spoken.

Dan Niederer’s Zurich brand turns cogwheels, copper pipes and bank vaults into square watches whose dials are built up in layers.

Benoît Mintiens trained as an industrial designer rather than a watchmaker, and his Antwerp company, Ressence, sets out to rethink how a mechanical watch shows the time.