Workshop

Foundry Watches

Where Time Is Forged

Step inside the atelier where raw material becomes a timepiece built to outlast its maker.

Our Workshop

An Atelier Built on Patience

Every Foundry watch begins far from a shelf, in a quiet room where light falls evenly across the workbench. Here, watchmaking is treated as a discipline rather than a trend: unhurried, exact, and passed on by hand from one craftsperson to the next.

Chapter One

Design & Sketching

Before a single tool is lifted

Every case begins as a line on paper. Our designers work through hundreds of proportions by hand, chasing the balance between a dial that reads instantly and a silhouette that ages gracefully across decades.

Chapter Two

Material Selection

Only what earns its place

Surgical-grade steel, sapphire crystal, and solid brass are chosen not for cost, but for how they wear over a lifetime. Each batch is tested for hardness, clarity, and finish before it is allowed anywhere near a case.

Chapter Three

Precision Machining

CNC lathes shave steel to within microns, guided by watchmakers who know exactly where a machine's judgment should end and a human hand should begin.

From the workshop floor

A watch is not built. It is coaxed, gram by gram, from raw metal into memory.

Foundry Watches, Master Watchmaker

Chapter Four

Hand Assembly

Where the movement comes alive

Under magnification, tweezers place gear trains no larger than a grain of rice. A single Foundry movement passes through more than sixty individual hand assembly steps before it ever ticks.

Chapter Five

Dial & Hands Installation

Legibility as craft

Dials are set by hand under raking light so the smallest misalignment is caught before it can leave the room. The hands are calibrated to clear the dial by fractions of a millimetre.