Watches

Blancpain has practiced the art of traditional watchmaking by mastering every complication, by refusing ever to manufacture a quartz watch, and by expressing time only in the shape of a circle. At Blancpain, thirteen generations of watchmakers have passed down their creativity and expertise for more than 250 years. This heritage is also an integral part of every Blancpain timepiece, making it a precious object to be passed down from generation to generation. 

Saint Honore watches are luxurious yet affordable, and some models have won awards for their original beauty - the Opera watch, which won the 1993 Design Grand Prize and the 1994 First Fashion Award at the Jewellers of America Show in New York, or the Manhattan Chronograph, which won First Prize in the Luxury Fashion Watch Category, again at the 1995 Jewellers of America Show in New York. They are destined to become tomorrow's classics.  

YES World Watches combine the daily and seasonal cycles of the sun and the moon, with the steady beat of hours, minutes and seconds. Their watches will tell you times for sunrise and sunset, for moonrise and moonset, lunar phase and percent illumination, as well as analog, digital and military time for wherever you are on the planet. 

Reuge SA, based in Sainte-Croix in the Canton of Vaud, is famous for its musical pocket watches as well as large movement musical boxes, singing birds, and automata. 

French traditional watch maker. 

Svend Andersen, co-founder with Vincent Calabrese of the AHCI in 1985, has done more than most to keep watchmaking alive as an art in an era ruled by the dead hand of the brands. Andersen, like Calabrese, is one of those natural mechanical geniuses for whom anything is possible. Born in 1942 to a Danish smallholder, Andersen was apprenticed to a watchmaker in Padborg on the border with Germany (most of the work consisted of replacing broken balance-staffs of pre-Incabloc watches), and gained his watchmaking diploma at the Royal Danish Technical Institute. Designs are quite unique. 

Chronoswiss is a German watch manufacturer based in Munich. The company was founded by Gerd R. Lang in 1983 with the mission to make the most extraordinary mechanic timepieces. Chronoswiss tries to stay exclusive by only producing about 7,000 watches per year. Though a German company, every component is produced in Switzerland and then the watches are hand-finished.  

Swiss made sport watches.