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Independent workshop, Beijing

The Beijing label identifies Ma Xushu’s personal independent watchmaking workshop; AHCI lists him as Xushu Ma, without establishing a separate company name. 12

This profile covers the maker’s identity, history and documented work. A complete model catalogue is being researched separately.

At a glance

Subject
Independent Atelier 12
Documented work
First original tourbillon project 12
Documented work
Cylindrical cursor-display tourbillon watch 12

Repair and engineering background

The Beijing label identifies Ma Xushu’s personal independent watchmaking workshop; AHCI lists him as Xushu Ma, without establishing a separate company name. AHCI describes Ma as a self-taught Chinese maker, born in 1959, whose early work included watch repair and making replacement parts.

USC reported that Ma had worked as an engineer at Beijing Watch Company and funded independent work with repair income. 12

Independent original work

Both AHCI and the 2014 USC report place the beginning of Ma’s original tourbillon work in 2005. The reported workshop was a rented rural Beijing courtyard with manufacturing equipment; AHCI gives an address in Changping, Beijing.

Ma developed a transverse cylindrical movement with a lateral tourbillon and cursor time display, rather than conventional hands. The 2014 profile’s age-53 career change cannot simply be substituted for the separately documented 2005 start of design work. 12

Association recognition and current limits

USC records an AHCI application in November 2012 and a Baselworld invitation in 2013; AHCI itself dates membership to 2015. A currently accessible AHCI profile verifies an institutional listing, not continued production at the same Beijing premises.

His documented importance is as an individual Chinese mechanism designer and maker, not evidence that the workshop was a large industrial watch brand. 21

Ownership and continuity

A currently accessible AHCI profile verifies an institutional listing, not continued production at the same Beijing premises. 1

Watchmakers and designers linked to Independent workshop, Beijing

These people have a sourced relationship to this brand in the Enjoy Watches register. The label beside each name states the relationship recorded; it should not be read as a broader employment or ownership claim.

Identification and service

For an individual watch, record the complete reference, serial, dial, case, and movement markings and compare them with dated primary documentation.

A brand history cannot authenticate, appraise, or establish the provenance of a particular watch.

Evidence and limits

How the claims are supported
  1. verified fact

    The Beijing label identifies Ma Xushu’s personal independent watchmaking workshop; AHCI lists him as Xushu Ma, without establishing a separate company name.

  2. verified fact

    AHCI describes Ma as a self-taught Chinese maker, born in 1959, whose early work included watch repair and making replacement parts.

  3. verified fact

    Both AHCI and the 2014 USC report place the beginning of Ma’s original tourbillon work in 2005.

  4. verified fact

    USC reported that Ma had worked as an engineer at Beijing Watch Company and funded independent work with repair income.

  5. verified fact

    The reported workshop was a rented rural Beijing courtyard with manufacturing equipment; AHCI gives an address in Changping, Beijing.

  6. verified fact

    Ma developed a transverse cylindrical movement with a lateral tourbillon and cursor time display, rather than conventional hands.

  7. verified fact

    USC records an AHCI application in November 2012 and a Baselworld invitation in 2013; AHCI itself dates membership to 2015.

  8. verified fact

    The 2014 profile’s age-53 career change cannot simply be substituted for the separately documented 2005 start of design work.

  9. verified fact

    A currently accessible AHCI profile verifies an institutional listing, not continued production at the same Beijing premises.

  10. verified fact

    His documented importance is as an individual Chinese mechanism designer and maker, not evidence that the workshop was a large industrial watch brand.

Known limits

  • No company registration, formal trading name, shareholder structure or separate commercial brand was established.
  • The Beijing address is evidence of the listed historical association. Current premises, order-taking, production and any later relocation were not established.
  • Full component sourcing, subcontractors, output, delivered quantities and finished-date documentation for the first tourbillon remain unverified.
  • This identity dossier is not a complete catalogue of every watch or reference.

Direct sources

  1. Xushu MaAcadémie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants · association member biography · accessed September 15, 2026

    Locator: Relevant passage identified in the supplied research record. First-party source; its statements remain attributed.

  2. Chinese Watch Making Master’s DreamUS-China Today / USC US-China Institute · reported interview · accessed September 15, 2026

    Locator: Relevant passage identified in the supplied research record. External source.

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