Never stop asking why
In 2013, Mauron Musy was not born from a marketing plan. It was born from a refusal. A refusal to accept that a solution simply “is what it is.” A refusal to consider a problem definitive. At the beginning, there was a high precision mechanical workshop. Machines. Raw components. A few prototypes. And one clear intention: to do better. Éric Mauron and Christophe Musy did not come from a traditional watchmaking lineage. They came with questions. And a mindset.
This led to an invitation to Baselworld in 2015. A first model in 2016. Then the development of our own in house manufacture movement. Each step was driven by the same requirement: understand before creating. Even today, the workshop operates this way. Engineering and instinct. Observation, questioning and coherence. Move forward. Create. Continue asking why.
In the Broye Valley, far from the major watchmaking hubs, our Manufacture is housed in a former farmhouse, in the heart of a small country village.
Nothing of an industrial building. A house that became a Manufacture. Workshops. Around ten people. 300 timepieces per year. It is here that our watchmakers assemble our movements from A to Z. Here that we produce our components. Here that we develop our own calibres. Here that we design, test and adjust.
It is also here that we welcome our collectors from all over the world. Everything comes together under one roof. Design, engineering, production, exchanges. A small team. One single place. Watchmaking entirely conceived and crafted on site.
if a watch is meant to last for generations, why make it dependent on a perishable component?
Coming from an industrial background, accustomed to solving mechanical problems through logic and precision, Christophe Musy approached watchmaking as an equation to be solved, not a tradition to be repeated. How can one accept, in an object designed to endure, a plastic gasket that must be replaced every three years?
The answer was mechanical. He filed a patent. Removed the rubber gaskets. And created the only water resistant watch without gaskets. Water resistance relies on geometry, pressure and extreme precision, down to 0.01 micron, achieved through diamond paste finishing in our workshop. The technology dictated its form: a four part case, directly derived from this patented architecture. This design, born from function, became the signature of the Maison and the foundation of its success. The result: a more durable watch. More coherent. More logical.
For us, Swiss Crafted is a conviction. We know the people behind every component. The workshops. The gestures. The standards. Swiss Made sets a minimum. We chose to aim for the maximum. Our timepieces are entirely manufactured in Switzerland, with partners located within a 60 kilometer radius of our Manufacture.
We work locally because craftsmanship can only be preserved if it is practiced. Because the finest expertise is here. Because giving up this coherence would have meant compromise. We were not prepared to make it. When everything is close, everything is under control. And every detail reflects it.
