When it comes to mechanical watches, todays vocabulary flourishes with superlatives and ready-made statements. Words like "creativity, manufacture, exclusivity, innovation, limited edition, trend, ultimate, etc." keep flooding the professional literature and the advertising in general. Since the manufacturers earliest days more than 160 years ago when its founder, Ulysse Nardin, began making marine chronometers from a mountainous location in Neuchtel, Switzerland, the watchmaking powerhouse has continually proved that challenges present intriguing opportunities worthy of exploration. And it is these explorations that have resulted in Ulysse Nardins unprecedented inventions in horology. Here, science, innovation and imagination are its muses and technological advancement combined with stellar artisanship is its beacon. Embodying this philosophy, cultivating it and bringing it to life through every Ulysse Nardin timepiece, are President Rolf W. Schnyder and Dr. Ludwig Oechslin. A masterful meeting of the minds, they are the visionaries and pioneers behind the Ulysse Nardin name as we know it today.