SIHH 2019: Independents allow creativity to shine through in original timepieces

"Some markets are amazing and booming The Middle East, the US and Europe are quite stable, so the big question mark is Asia Retailers in Asia are very cautious, but that could change very quickly.

And you can have great surprises in that region with collectors buying very expensive watches, but it is really binary I would say that the standard businesspeople want to wait and see for the first quarter," said the head of a company making 1,500 watches per year Just like Heraclitus said - no man steps in the same river twice François Nunez, creative director, HYTWhen it comes to sheer, instantly recognisable beauty, few watches can match the drop-lugged precious works of Kari Voutilainen.

With Type 2, Ressence addresses a real problem with mechanical watches: unreliability Founder and industrial designer Benoît Mintiens calls his smart crown system the e-Crown, which allows the fully mechanical automatic watch to be connected with your smartphone "We have improved mechanical watches when it comes to legibility, wearability, trust and functionality.

No more do you have to double-check the time on your phone," says Ressence brand director Gaëtan Gaye.A somewhat related idea can be found in the AMC from the independent pioneer Urwerk This enables an ex-machina dialogue with the watch on three levels: synchronising the watch with the atomic clock, adjusting its rate and winding the mainspring "Harmony and creativity happen when two worlds that normally don't meet collide," says creative director François Nunez, apropos the fact that watchmakers normally do all they can to keep liquid out of a watch. Source