Our Story

WHO WE ARE

 

We are a French designer and an engineer based in London. You can imagine how picky we can be. We design our watches as well as if they were for ourselves.

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OUR VISION

Don’t change your watch with trends, let the watch change for you

We were quite frustrated not to find an original watch that would outstand our design and quality standard. We wanted a watch that would be unique and will withstand the test of time by continuously surprise and please us with its design and features.

So we decided to create tour own. 

A SINGULAR DESIGN

MORE THAN A PRETTY FACE

What makes our watches unique is the design of their face that create changing patterns.

We not only design unique timepieces, we care about every detail to make them last in time.

OUR TIMELINE IN MOTION

 

 

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December 2016

 

The concept of the watch is brought to life with its first sketches in Catherine's notebook.

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May – June  2017

Catherine propose the design to be edited to a few brands but they all reject it.

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Summer  2017

Catherine believes in the potential of her design and takes the decision to self-produce it and starts developing the first prototypes.

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October  2017

The first prototype is featured in Core 77. Numerous offers and purchase enquiries follow and encourage Catherine to continue developing this idea.

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Winter  2017

Loïc officially joins the adventure and we started getting in touch with manufacturers to make our final prototype. In the meantime, we refined and designed every detail of the watch.

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February  2018

We receive the prototypes that we immediately photograph and share on our website and social media.

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Spring 2018

We launch the final production after a few edits to the prototypes.

We also develop a final branding, creative direction and website.

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Summer  2018

We design and produce our final packaging.

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October 2018

We launch pre-orders on our online shop. 

Meanwhile, we take a little break and travel across the USA.

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November  2018

We are featured in the December issue of British GQ.

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December 2018

We have to resent all of our production to be modified as it wasn't meeting our quality standards.

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January  2019

We receive our stock and are happy to finally open our online shop.

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March 2020

Since the beginning of the pandemic, we are based in France and continue to operate our shop from there.

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January 2021

Our adventure ends here as we are moving to new projects.

Hope our timelines will cross again.