Comparing a watch to an automobile gives an easier understanding of the passion that can exist for both these works of art.

Both watch and automobile are composed of an engine and a body that we ask to be both practical and reliable. Working together, they can also make us dream.

A watch movement, like an automobile engine, is the ideal domain for innovations that are so appreciated by enthusiasts and collectors.

Real innovation in a watch is not to be found in technical feats which are the servants of an idea or function, but in the capacity of a timepiece to offer a man or woman the possibility of investing in a virtually sacred function: the measurement of his or her OWN time.

A watch is unlike any other object in our environment. A watch measures the most personal and emotional of parameters: our participation in the eternity of time.

It is the key witness to our life and we often offer a watch to our children when they reach adulthood so that they can begin to measure their own time time which is no longer ours to measure.

These ideas are essential to understand the creative process behind my watches: timepieces which embody the research required in order to create that which is most true to us all: an emotion.

This search for emotion in the measuring of time transcends cultures and generations. It is a functional art through which each of us can discover, or perhaps rediscover, his or her childhood and innocence.

"So much passion for such a trivial object" some may say. It is also said about a painting or a sculpture that has not been understood. That's the way it is with works of art. ..