CHRISTOPHE CLARET

BORN IN LYON,

WATCHMAKING MIND BACKGROUND

FRANCE, IN 1962, CHRISTOPHE CLARET STUDIED AT THE GENEVA SCHOOL OF WATCHMAKING AND COUNTS ROGER DUBUIS AND ROLF SCHNYDER—THEMSELVES FOUNDERS OF THEIR OWN WATCHMAKING COMPANIES—AS AMONG HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND PEERS. CLARET’S EARLY WATCHMAKING YEARS WERE SPENT RESTORING ANTIQUE TIMEPIECES, DEVELOPING A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORKINGS OF A MOVEMENT. THE YEAR 1987 WAS A TURNING POINT, AS SCHNYDER—WHO BY THEN HAD FOUNDED ULYSSE NARDIN—WAS SO IMPRESSED BY CLARET’S WORK THAT HE ORDERED 20 OF HIS CALIBRES. CLARET ESTABLISHED HIS COMPANY IN LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS TWO YEARS LATER, AND SOON HIS NAME WAS SYNONYMOUS WITH HIGHLY COMPLICATED, SOPHISTICATED AND INVENTIVE MOVEMENTS.

BRAND PHILOSOPHY

THAT IN WATCHMAKING, “EVERYTHING HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE, AND