WatchTime Los Angeles, the West Coast’s biggest watch-collector extravaganza, kicks off on May 3, boasting more than 25 luxury watch brands as well as several of the watchmaking world’s rock stars and creative visionaries. Here are five of the boldfaced names of horology that you’ll have a chance to meet this weekend during the two-day event at Downtown L.A.’s Hudson Loft. (Click here for more info and tickets.)
Romain Gauthier is the head of his eponymous 13-year old firm. Trained and certified as a constructor of precision machinery, Romain initially did not intend to make a career in the watch world, yet it drew him in anyways and he?s now one of the most well-regarded makers in this close-knit industry. Two years after founding his brand, he unveiled the first watches, called Prestige HM. Today, the brand offers four in-house-made calibers: Prestige HM, Prestige HMS (launched in 2010), Logical One (unveiled in 2013, the same year it won the GPHG award for Best Men?s Complication), and the Insight Micro-Rotor, which made its debut at Baselworld 2017 and was updated the following year in black and natural titanium versions. At this year’s Baselworld, Romain introduced a new Logical One model with a white-gold case with baguette-cut diamonds, a new Insight Micro-Rotor piece with a blue enamel dial, and a stainless steel version of the Prestige HMS with a meteorite dial. Check out our profile of Romain Gauthier here. Romain Gauthier
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