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 Thomas Prescher is an independent Swiss watchmaker since 2002. The decision to found an independent Swiss watchmaking workshop was naturally preceded by many years of intense study and apprenticeships. Having entered the German Navy at the age of 19 and finishing with the rank of captain six years later, Thomas Prescher decided the time had come to turn his passionate interest in watchmaking into a tangible reality.
Using the well-developed sense of discipline and planning attained during his time in the navy, Thomas Prescer spent more than a year buying up dozens of old, broken clocks and watches, teaching himself to repair them, and reading technical books and articles in order to be able to compete for the single apprenticeship position that became available each year at IWC. Prescher was accepted, completing the four-year apprenticeship in only three as the year’s top student. After working under the banner of various biggies in the watchmaking sector as Audemars Piguet or Gübelin where he became a master in fabricating complicated watches, Thomas Prescher inaugurated his own atelier.
The Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie was the outcome of his ardor, his desire to content his soul full of innovative concepts. The location of Thomas Prescher watches brand’s workshop is enough to prove its founder’s quest for beauty: the workshop is located in the scenic city of Twann in Switzerland.
Complications form the basis of Thomas Prescher’s wristwatch collection, which has yet to include a “normal” three-handed watch. His first creations, christened Tempusvivendi, were of the bras en l’air genre, based on a double retrograde complication first developed in the eighteenth century that features an artistically engraved or enameled scene on the dial, usually focusing on a centrally placed human or animal figure. When the button hidden in the crown is pressed, the extremities of the figure on the dial move to show the correct hours and minutes. When the button is released, the scene returns to its non-temporal resting state, the most attractive and anatomically correct position.
In 2003, Thomas Prescher was accepted as a candidate member of the AHCI. That year at BaselWorld, he exhibited both a double axis tourbillon pocket watch and a double axis tourbillon wristwatch, the first of their kind, and a bras en l’air wristwatch of the Tempusvivendi line at the AHCI booth.
Prescher plans on continuing his work in this basic philosophy in the future, creating complicated timepieces with exceptional designs.
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