Christophe Claret
Le Locle, Switzerland
Since 1989, master watchmaker Christophe Claret has been designing and manufacturing exceptional timepieces at his workshop in Le Locle. His watches are characterised by technical audacity and playful mechanical ingenuity. Examples include the X-TREM-1, which displays the time using two magnetically levitating spheres, and the 21 Blackjack and Poker watches, which feature integrated casino games. All movements are produced entirely in-house and undergo meticulous hand finishing. Christophe Claret represents a form of watchmaking that treats mechanics as an expression of artistic imagination: innovative, complex and unmistakable.