About De Witt
In barely four years Les Montres DeWitt have emerged into the circle of innovative luxury watch manufacturers. The brand stands for passion, curiosity, creative audacity, taste for innovation and open-mindedness. All in line with the personality of Jérôme de Witt, whose personal history has inspired the values of the brand which are focused on a futuristic vision of horological micro-engineering.
Jérôme de Witt set up business in Vandoeuvres in 2002 in order to follow his dream. He engaged with the profession's best craftsmen, leading names in movement and watch design, goldsmithing, dial-making and the jeweller's art to execute his ideas.
His designs are free from constraints imposed by tradition and breathe a sense of newness into the conservative world of timepieces.
The brand aims for real innovation and creating of added value displayed in aesthetic considerations, tuned to perfection and expressed through a powerful design accentuated by original combinations of materials. This formal architecture is symbolised by the "Imperial columns", the ultimate interpretation of contemporary refinement and the company's emblematic signature.
In 2003 in
The last four years have resulted in two patents and international recognition placing DeWitt in the ranks of the most avant-garde and elitist companies in terms of their conceptual and creative approach. The innovations of DeWitt testify to the spirit infused by one man in a company geared to the future of mechanical watchmaking, placing the timepiece in a different perspective. The manufactory of the 21st century is redefining Luxury watchmaking with a whole new interpretation of true luxury.
Jérôme De Witt, a passionate and uninhibited approach to the art of watchmaking
From his ancestor, the French Emperor Napoleon I, and from the latter's brother, King Jérôme of
Jérôme de Witt is in thrall to the art of luxury watchmaking, "enchanted by this art of the infinitely small which creates movement... dazzled by the genius of inventors who constantly push back the boundaries of engineering the better to gauge the passing of time... fascinated by the slow and respectful labour of love of the watchmaker for his timepiece, which through science and patience becomes not just his work, but an extension of his very being".
Jérôme de Witt seeks to share his passion for watchmaking with those privileged to be his friends. His eye is resolutely unprejudiced and new, his quest for perfection absolute. The timepieces he designs are developed over many long months, since this perfectionist repeatedly returns work in progress to the watchmaker's bench. Jérôme de Witt inspects the piece and will not tolerate the slightest defect, until such time as it is worthy to receive the DeWitt maker's mark. A designer of exceptional watches developed by his master watchmakers in limited editions and offered to his peers...
Jérôme de Witt... the builder of the Manufactory of the 21st century. In his quest for the absolute, Jérôme de Witt takes giant steps and breathes new life into a centuries old art. For many years he has forged contacts and partnerships to test, calibrate and measure the talent and motivation of the women and men who today lend their vibrancy to the DeWitt Manufactory...
Under his brand name, Jérôme de Witt can be proud of building a team passionately motivated by an adventure whose goal is to redefine the canons and future values of the art of watchmaking.
Based in Vandoeuvres since its creation in 2003, the DeWitt Manufactory takes possession of its new premises in January 2007. Located in Vernier, near
It will have taken Jérôme De Witt just four years to make his mark in the very elite circle of avant-garde Luxury watch manufacturers. A few key words make it easier to understand why the eponymous company burst so dazzlingly onto the scene in 2003: passion, curiosity, creative audacity and taste for innovation. Such is the spirit of DeWitt, which, rather than being content to rely on ideas from history and the past, chooses to pioneer new and unexplored paths offered by the mysteries of horological micro-engineering.
Short passage of time
It is true that DeWitt has passed a number of significant milestones in a short passage of time: presentation of the Pressy Grande Complication in 2003, a World First, followed in 2005 by the launch of an original technological concept: the Tourbillon Différentiel Academia. This patented development was a major event and won the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix in the Innovation category. The following year saw another innovative breakthrough in the form of a new World First: the Tourbillon Force Constante Academia presented by Les Montres DeWitt at the International Watch Exhibition in Basel in 2006, setting the seal on a major development destined to enter the annals of watchmaking history with the patented design of a "movement and a Timepiece in which the functions of constant force and regulation are clearly separated such that they are visible on the front of the timepiece".
The firm's expansion will streamline the overall creation of added value in the mechanical movement and the design of DeWitt creations, consolidating the company's position as a leading player in the contemporary world of luxury watchmaking. A company intent on giving life to designs that express the values of originality, uniqueness and lasting quality.
