#HOROLOGY DETAIL SERIES#
Watches made by TWC are not mass-produced, they are made in limited series according to customer’s individual wishes. Working with GMT’s, chronographs, moon phase watches and Pilot models, TWC puts care and patience into every piece. Quality matters more than quantity for this pair. Practically a forum for individual creativity from two men of distinct watchmaking prowess, TWC produces about 60 watches of ten different lines a year. A horological work of art doesn’t attempt to combine two different forms of art, it represents timekeeping as art in itself.
This purist vision aims to illuminate the artistic identity of timekeeping itself. Towson Watch Company has a purist vision for their watches, a concept of style that is above all, elegant and simple. A horological work of art is a sphere of imagination and creative skill used to produce the aesthetic significance of engineering and the science of time. We have both ends of the technical spectrum covered, from current engineering to an understanding of watchmaking 500 years ago.”Īrt is a sphere in which imagination and creative skill is used to make things of aesthetic significance.
These are 200 to 300 year-old timepieces. But I’ve had a lot of experience doing restoration of antique watches for museums. We work together well because he essentially does the design and engineering work that I can’t do. “I started life as a watchmaker in 1948, 58 years ago. For the company’s founders, their partnership allowed them to produce horological works of art. To create something special, mechanical instruments of beauty and precision, was always the dream of TWC’s founders. Talent, creativity and vision produce the artistic identity of a horological instrument.
It is also a category of art, as a horological masterpiece is a representation of the creative vision vested in engineering. Horology is the science of time, timekeepers and timekeeping.
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