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Watchmaker register

How watchmakers are connected

Explore 513 sourced watchmaker relationships across founding, employment, design, supply, ownership, training, collaboration, and qualified associations.

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What this view shows

The register does not treat every connection as employment or ownership. These groups preserve the exact relationship labels attached to people, brands, workshops, suppliers, institutions, and projects.

Own watchmaking practice

People documented through a practice, workshop, or marque operating under their own name or direction. 128 people.

Andreas Strehler

Andreas Strehler — Independent watchmaker / movement developer

Anita Porchet

Independent atelier (name not established) — Enameller

Anthony Dzamefe

Caveman — Watch entrepreneur / assembler and design developer

Antide Janvier

Independent practice (name not established) — Astronomical clockmaker / horological author

Auguste Fénon

Auguste Fénon workshop — Marine and observatory chronometers

Bernhard Zwinz

L’Atelier de Joux — Independent watchmaker / movement designer

Charles Frodsham

Charles Frodsham & Co. — Chronometer maker / horological author

Daizoh Makihara

Daizoh Makihara Watch Craft Japan — Independent watchmaker / engraver

David Walter

David Walter Timepieces — Clockmaker / watchmaker

Derek Pratt

Independent workshop (name not established) — Independent watchmaker / restorer

Eric Giroud

Eric Giroud design office — Watch designer

Eva Leube

Eva Leube — Independent watchmaker

Fiona Krüger

Fiona Krüger Timepieces — Watch designer / artist

Fouad Zrhari

Group Khalis Horlogerie — Watch repairer / watch designer

Frank Jutzi

Frank Jutzi — Independent watchmaker / restorer

François Borgel

François Borgel case-making practice — Screw-down protective watch cases; legal trading name not established

Guo Ming

Independent Horologe Studio — Independent watchmaker / educator

Itay Noy

Itay Noy studio — Independent timepiece maker / watch designer

Itay Noy

Itay Noy — Independent timepiece maker

James Lamb

James Lamb Watches — Independent watchmaker / case maker

Jean Kazès

Créations Kazès Genève — Clockmaker / sculptor

Jochen Benzinger

Benzinger atelier, Pforzheim — Guilloché artist / dial and movement decorator

John Arnold

John Arnold — Watchmaker and chronometer pioneer

John Harrison

Independent maker — Watchmaker and chronometer pioneer

Josef Snétivy

Independent atelier in Switzerland — Watchmaker / clockmaker / restorer

Julien Tixier

Independent Vallée de Joux atelier — Watchmaker / movement constructor / hand finisher

Kari Voutilainen

Kari Voutilainen — Independent watchmaking practice since 2002.

Keaton P. Myrick

Keaton P. Myrick atelier, Bend, Oregon — Independent watchmaker / component maker

Kiu Tai Yu

independent Hong Kong workshop — Independent watchmaker / tourbillon developer

Kiu Tai Yu

Kew & Cie — Independent watchmaker / tourbillon developer

Lin Yong Hua

LYH Clock & Watch Workshop — Independent watchmaker

Louis Cottier

Independent practice (name not established) — Watchmaker / complication inventor

Louis Moinet

Independent practice (name not established) — Watchmaker, inventor and author

Luigi Pippa

Independent clockmaking and restoration, Milan — Clockmaker, restorer and reconstruction specialist

Ma Xushu

Independent workshop, Beijing — Independent watchmaker

Marc Jenni

Marc Jenni — Watchmaker and mechanism designer

Marc Jenni

Nobletime — Watchmaker and mechanism designer

Marco Lang

Atelier Marco Lang — Independent watchmaker

Miki Eleta

Miki Eleta — Clockmaker / kinetic artist

Nicholas Hacko

Nicholas Hacko Watchmaker — Independent watchmaker / manufacturer

Peter Roberts

Peter Roberts Watches — Watchmaker / chronograph developer / teacher

Philippe Dufour

Philippe Dufour — Own workshop bought in 1978; own brand launched at Basel in 1992.

Ravinder Singh

Singh family workshop, Nairobi — Watch and clock repairer

Rexhep Rexhepi

Rexhep Rexhepi — Own-name watchmaking; not a separate legal-company claim

Simon Brette

Simon Brette — Watchmaker / movement developer

Susan Galvin

Galvin Watch Company — Watchmaker / designer / assembler

Suzanne Rohr

Independent practice (name not established) — Miniature enamel painter

Tan Zehua

Tan Zehua, Shenzhen — Independent watchmaker / inventor

Théo Auffret

Auffret Paris — Independent watchmaker / movement designer

Vasdev Singh

Singh family watchmaking business, Nairobi — Watchmaker, repairer and retailer

Volker Vyskocil

Vyskocil, Nettetal — Independent watchmaker / mechanical designer

Worked for / held role

Employment, appointments, and defined positions held within a watchmaking business or institution. 125 people.

Alan Banbery

Garrard — Watchmaker / museum builder / horological author

Alan Banbery

Patek Philippe — Watchmaker / museum builder / horological author

Anton Suhanov

Konstantin Chaykin — Independent watchmaker / engineer

Ashod Papazian

Francis Papazian — Watchmaker and restoration practitioner

Auguste Fénon

Winnerl workshop — Worked under historical Winnerl; not modern Winnerl company

Bernhard Zwinz

Philippe Dufour — Independent watchmaker / movement designer

Betty Fiechter

Rayville-Blancpain — Assistant, workshop director and company leader

Cao Weifeng

Sea-Gull — Movement engineer / project leader

Charles Vermot

Zenith — Watchmaker; preservation of El Primero production tools

Claude Greisler

Christophe Claret — Master watchmaker / movement developer

César Brandt

Louis Brandt & Frère — Watch-industry industrialist

Dominique Guenat

Guenat SA Montres Valgine — Manufacturing entrepreneur / co-founder

Eva Leube

Thomas Prescher — Independent watchmaker

Eva Leube

Ulysse Nardin — Independent watchmaker

Flora Fernández

Relojería Julio Fernández — Clock restorer and workshop leader

Hideo Tsuchiya

Seikosha — Horological researcher and restoration specialist

Hilario Riveros

Relojería Riveros Hnos. — Clock restorer and watch repairer

Hou Guoren

Hangzhou watchmaking industry — Movement decorator / skeletonization specialist

Jack Heuer

Heuer — Watch-industry leader / product direction

Janina Thiele

A. Lange & Söhne — Complicated-watch assembler / watchmaker

Jean-Claude Nicolet

Zenith — Historical watch-industry role; exact position and dates require source review

Li Chenguang

Liaocheng Watch Factory — Movement developer / maker

Li Jiaqi

Sea-Gull — Movement-art designer / maker

Luca Soprana

Ateliers 7h38 — Led collaborative movement development

Ludwig Oechslin

Musée international d'horlogerie — Curator and museum manager

Maximilian Büsser

Harry Winston Rare Timepieces — Managing director from 1998 until leaving in 2005; developed collaborative Opus programme.

Maximilian Büsser

Jaeger-LeCoultre — First employer; seven years in senior management before Harry Winston.

Osamu Takahashi

Grand Seiko — Movement engineer / Spring Drive development leader

Osamu Takahashi

Seiko Epson — Movement engineer / Spring Drive development leader

Philippe Dufour

Audemars Piguet — Worked for Audemars Piguet after Gérald Genta.

Philippe Dufour

General Watch & Co. — Joined the company and managed a Caribbean assembly operation.

Philippe Dufour

Gérald Genta — Worked for Gérald Genta after returning to Switzerland in 1974.

Reinhard Meis

A. Lange & Söhne — Watch designer and product-development specialist

Roger W. Smith

George Daniels workshop — Worked with Daniels; legal employment separately unverified

Saira Akram

Collectibles by Sonraj service centre, Karachi — Watch-service practitioner

Samy Taha

Francis Papazian — Bench watch repairer

Shi Wenli

Beijing Watch Factory — Movement designer / technical author

Su Wenbin

Beijing Watch Factory — Complicated-watch assembler / regulator

Tang Xiping

Yantai Polaris — Clock-movement engineer / project leader

Xu Yaonan

Beijing Watch Factory — Movement designer / technical author

Yang Zuobin

Sea-Gull — Complicated-movement assembler / regulator

Zhao Guowang

Sea-Gull — Movement designer / engineering leader

Zhao Zhenling

Beijing Watch Factory — Complicated-movement developer / watchmaker

Zhou Wenxia

Sea-Gull — Movement designer / engineering leader

Founder / co-founder

People explicitly documented as founders or co-founders of the named concern. 78 people.

Auguste Agassiz

Agassiz workshop (Longines predecessor) — Saint-Imier workshop established with fellow watchmakers in 1832

Brittany Nicole Cox

Memoria Technica — Antiquarian horologist / conservator / guilloché practitioner

Carlos Dias

Roger Dubuis (SOGEM) — Co-founder, business leader and watch designer

Catherine Henry

GENUS — Watch-company co-founder / business-development leader

Dominique Guenat

Richard Mille — Business/manufacturing partnership with Richard Mille

Edward Howard

Howard & Davis — Early American watch-production enterprise; partnership dates unverified

Edward Howard

Howard Watch Company — Established Howard clock-and-watch enterprise

Florian Bédat

Petermann Bédat — Independent watchmaker / co-founder

Gaurav Mehta

Jaipur Watch Company — Founder / creative director

Giulio Papi

Renaud & Papi — Watchmaker and movement constructor

Hartwig Balke

Towson Watch Company — Watch designer / engineer / company co-founder

Louis Brandt

Louis Brandt workshop — Business established in 1848

Ludwig Oechslin

ochs und junior — Founder; technical and functional watch design

Marco Lang

Lang & Heyne — Founded in 2001; separate own-name practice from 2019

Maria Kristina Habring

Habring² — Joint Maria and Richard Habring watchmaking venture; first HABRING² presented in October 2004.

Mercy Amalraj

Bangalore Watch Company — Watch-company co-founder

Naoya Hida

Naoya Hida & Co. — Founder / product direction

Richard Habring

Habring² — Joint Maria and Richard Habring watchmaking venture; first HABRING² presented in October 2004.

Richard Mille

Richard Mille — Project established with Dominique Guenat; RM 001 introduced in 2001

Roger Dubuis

Roger Dubuis (SOGEM) — Watchmaker, complication developer and co-founder

Stuart Swan

Bettél — Watch co-founder / production and case-craft leader

Tristan Ho

LOTH — Independent watchmaker / movement finisher

Designed / developed / supplied for

Design, movement development, technical construction, component supply, and other credited work produced for another concern. 53 people.

Bradley Taylor

Birchall & Taylor — Collaborative watches; founder status not asserted here

Daniël Reintjes

Christiaan van der Klaauw — Watch designer / former creative director and co-owner

Daniël Reintjes

Dark Rush — Watch designer / former creative director and co-owner

Elmar Mock

Swatch — Co-development with Jacques Müller

Ernst Thomke

Swatch — ETA chief supporting Swatch development; not sole inventor

Fouad Zrhari

Elaqsa — Calligraphy and regional-numeral watch designs

Francisco Moreno

Deco Ibarra — Watch designs; legal-entity relationship to Ibarra unresolved

George Thomas

Towson Watch Company — Co-developed Towson watches; unresolved founding details not promoted to fact

Hartwig Balke

Jochen Benzinger — Watch designer / engineer / company co-founder

Jean-Léon Reutter

LeCoultre — Atmos concept subsequently developed by LeCoultre; employment not established

Jochen Benzinger

Towson Watch Company — Guilloché artist / dial and movement decorator

Julien Tixier

Renaud Tixier — Watchmaker / movement constructor / hand finisher

Luca Soprana

Derek Pratt wristwatch continuation — Reworked continuation movement; earlier contributions by others retained

Luca Soprana

Jacob & Co. — Team-led SF24 and Astronomia movement development

Maria Reintjes

Christiaan van der Klaauw — Watch / brand designer; former co-owner and marketing director

Maria Reintjes

Dark Rush — Watch / brand designer; former co-owner and marketing director

Max Berney

Patek Philippe — 1975 modification of Banbery ref. 3448, calibre 27-460 Q

Philippe Dufour

Audemars Piguet — Commissioned to make five grande-sonnerie pocket-watch movements.

Pim Koeslag

Christiaan van der Klaauw — 3D CAD translation of historical planetarium drawings; 2024 Grand Planetarium Eccentric Manufacture

Ricardo A. Gracioli

Ceon Watch Co. — GR-01 exterior and integrated bracelet; movement manufacture not asserted

Association — role unresolved

A source supports an association, but the inspected evidence does not establish the person’s precise role. 48 people.

Arde Bulova

Bulova — Industry leader / watchmaking-education founder

Derek Pratt

Urban Jürgensen — Independent watchmaker / restorer

Giulio Papi

Audemars Piguet — Watchmaker and movement constructor

Hideo Tsuchiya

Man-nen Jimeisho research project — Horological researcher and restoration specialist

Hilario Riveros

cathedral clock maintenance — Clock restorer and watch repairer

Jacques Piguet

Frédéric Piguet — Movement-industry owner / manufacturer

John Arnold

Arnold & Son — Watchmaker and chronometer pioneer

John Harwood

Harwood Self-Winding Watch Company — Watchmaker / inventor

Luca Soprana

Vianney Halter workshop — Watchmaker / movement developer

Manuel Mondul

Relojería Julio Fernández — Watch and clock restorer; craft teacher

Marc Jenni

earlier Tiffany & Co. watch services — Watchmaker and mechanism designer

Mauricio José Riveros

Riveros family clock-maintenance practice — Clock-maintenance apprentice and practitioner

Megan Precious

Harrods — Watch-service specialist / training-network manager

Megan Precious

Richemont Americas — Watch-service specialist / training-network manager

Megan Precious

Xupes — Watch-service specialist / training-network manager

Pedro Coelho

Marinha Portuguesa — Naval horologist / vocational assessor

Pim Koeslag

Ateliers de Monaco — Watchmaker / movement developer

Pim Koeslag

Frederique Constant — Watchmaker / movement developer

Recep Gürgen

Wolfgang Meyer's workshop — Historic-clock restorer and teacher

Roger Dubuis

Longines — Watchmaker, complication developer and co-founder

Roger Dubuis

Patek Philippe — Watchmaker, complication developer and co-founder

Venla Voutilainen

The Hour Glass — Watchmaker / restoration and after-sales specialist

Venla Voutilainen

Urban Jürgensen — Watchmaker / restoration and after-sales specialist

Venla Voutilainen

Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier — Watchmaker / restoration and after-sales specialist

Warren A. Marrison

Bell Telephone Laboratories — Electrical engineer / quartz chronometry developer

Institutional association — role not established

A documented institutional connection whose employment, ownership, or project role has not been established. 31 people.

Alan Banbery

Patek Philippe Museum — Watchmaker / museum builder / horological author

Alfred Helwig

German Watchmaking School Glashütte — Watchmaker / technical teacher

Antide Janvier

French royal court — Astronomical clockmaker / horological author

Arde Bulova

Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking — Industry leader / watchmaking-education founder

Auguste Fénon

École d’horlogerie de Besançon — Chronometer maker / watchmaking-school director

George Thomas

Smithsonian examination commission — Watchmaker / restorer

Guo Ming

Shanghai Industrial Technology School — Independent watchmaker / educator

Itay Noy

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design — Independent timepiece maker / watch designer

Jang Yeong-sil

Joseon royal court — Court clockmaker / instrument artisan

Jean-Claude Nicolet

École d'horlogerie de La Chaux-de-Fonds — Clockmaker, watchmaking teacher and technical author

Jonathan Betts

Royal Museums Greenwich — Horological conservator and historian

Pedro Coelho

Instituto Hidrográfico — Naval horologist / vocational assessor

Peter Roberts

Hackney College — Watchmaker / chronograph developer / teacher

Peter Roberts

WOSTEP — Watchmaker / chronograph developer / teacher

Recep Gürgen

National Palaces — Historic-clock restorer and teacher

Song I-yeong

Gwansanggam (Joseon Bureau of Astronomy) — Astronomer / astronomical-clock developer

Şule Gürbüz

Dolmabahçe Palace — Clock conservator / horological scholar

Şule Gürbüz

National Palaces — Clock conservator / horological scholar

Context / not a brand relationship

Contextual records retained to explain a career or contribution; these are not presented as brand relationships. 25 people.

Edmond Capt

Swiss mechanical-movement industry — Movement constructor

George Margetts

London watchmaking — Watchmaker and astronomical dial designer

Hisashige Tanaka

Japanese temporal-hour clockmaking — Clockmaker and mechanical inventor

Hubert Sarton

Liège clockmaking — Clockmaker and horological inventor

Jean Toutin

French enamel craft — Enameller / decorative innovator

Julien Le Roy

Clockmaker to Louis XV — Clockmaker and watchmaker

Louis Cottier

multiple Swiss watch houses — Watchmaker / complication inventor

Louis Moinet

Abraham-Louis Breguet circle — Watchmaker, inventor and author

Peter Henlein

Nuremberg clockmaking — Early portable-watch maker

Pierre Le Roy

French marine horology — Watchmaker and marine chronometer pioneer

Robert Hooke

English scientific horology — Scientist and horological inventor

Su Fusheng

Liaoning watchmaking industry — Named employer needs verification

Acquired / revived / owned

Acquisition, ownership, or revival of a watchmaking name or business. 7 people.

Emil Lange

A. Lange & Söhne — Co-owner of the family business

Richard Lange

A. Lange & Söhne — Co-owner of the family business

Project collaboration

People connected through a defined collaborative watchmaking project. 4 people.

Michel Boulanger

Naissance d’une Montre — Traditional-watchmaking transmission project

Philippe Dufour

Naissance d’une Montre — Traditional-watchmaking transmission project

Robert Greubel

Naissance d’une Montre — Traditional-watchmaking transmission project

Stephen Forsey

Naissance d’une Montre — Traditional-watchmaking transmission project

Training / apprenticeship

Documented teaching, study, training, or apprenticeship relationships. 4 people.

Betty Fiechter

Rayville-Blancpain — Part-time business apprenticeship

Brittany Nicole Cox

West Dean College — Antiquarian horologist / conservator / guilloché practitioner

Acquired / revived

A documented acquisition or revival where broader ownership wording is not supported. 3 people.

Unresolved affiliation

An affiliation retained as a research lead because the available evidence does not support a more precise label. 3 people.

Fu Tinghai

Not established — Clock-movement engineer

Acquired / continued workshop

A person documented as acquiring or continuing an existing workshop. 1 people.

George Graham

Tompion–Graham workshop — Continued Tompion's London workshop