At the AHCI you can touch the watchmaker who makes your watch.

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The Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI) is an association with the mission to perpetuate the art of independent watch and clock-making.

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The Circle of Friends brings closer our watchmakers with collectors and enthusiasts. Be part of the rebirth of independent watchmaking.

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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS

19 May 2018/by Konstantin Chaykin

China Watch & Clock Fair 2018

The horological academy of independent creators AHCI cordially…

19 May 2018/by Konstantin Chaykin

WATCHFAIR Luxembourg 2018

4 December 2017/by Nicolas Stauffer

Baselworld 2018 – 22.03. – 27.03.2018

21 September 2017/by Nicolas Stauffer

AHCI at Jeweluxe Singapore exhibition – 11.10. – 15.10.2017

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EVENTS

Meet the watchmakers that conceived, designed and created such beautiful pieces of mechanical art. Listen, watch and understand the meaning and of each timepiece directly from the artists.

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MEMBERS

While big luxury groups have industrialised watchmaking, we shatter, then reconstruct the rules of watchmaking every time we create a new timepiece. Our art is unmistakably singular and exclusive.

In 2018, we are 30 watchmakers, 8 candidates, 8 honorific members and 4 passive members from 15 countries, each one with a different interpretation of the art of watchmaking.

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The industrialisation of watchmaking transforms unique art into a mass-market commodity, converting watchmakers into anonymous components of an endless production line.

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