In its third annual edition, WatchTime New York, America’s Luxury Watch Show, which takes place next weekend in Midtown Manhattan, welcomes an array of independent watchmakers in addition to major luxury brands. One of these indie stars, Scotland’s Fiona Krüger, is making her first appearance at the event, and offers guests the opportunity to go up close and hands-on with the new Chaos Collection Entropy I, a timepiece that features her eponymous brand’s first proprietary caliber.
Fiona Krüger Entropy 1 Purple Pow
Krüger ? a designer with a fine-arts background who moved to Switzerland to complete her Masters in product design, fell in love with horology, and launched Fiona Krüger timepieces in 2013 ? conceived the Chaos caliber as a visual representation of the phenomenon of entropy. As described in physics, entropy “dictates that as time passes things always move from a state of order toward a state of disorder or chaos,” in Krüger’s words. Thus her conception of the movement as being rendered in mid-explosion ? with a stretched-out gear train, an “erupting” balance wheel, shattered-look hour and minute wheels pushed off-center, and Pop Art-style cracks and bursts in the mainplate that allow the wearer to peer at all these elements. This bespoke movement ? designed by Krüger in cooperation with the movement-making experts at Aghenor, whose previous collaborations have wrought such notable pieces as Van Cleef & Arpe...