Colin de Tonnac, Watchmaker, CEO and Founder at Semper & Adhuc (Labouheyre, France)
HSNY's December 2022 lecture will take place in person at the General Society Library. Doors open at 6PM ET, lecture to begin at 7PM ET. RSVP is required.
Since the 1980s and in the general subconscious, watchmaking has been above all a Swiss affair. When we think of watches or of a watch-producing country, typical images of Lake Geneva, the Swiss flag or the snowy mountains of the Vallée de Joux immediately come to mind.
However, there is another neighboring country that produces fine timepieces as well: France.
For the final lecture of 2022, Colin de Tonnac, Watchmaker, CEO and Founder at Semper & Adhuc, will discuss the evolution of French watchmaking, focusing on events, anecdotes, innovations and flagship models that put France on the map as a serious watchmaking nation, including the revival it has experienced in recent years.
The lecture video will be available to members immediately, and to the general public following a two-month delay.
About Colin de Tonnac
After graduating in Paris and then Morteau watchmaking schools, Colin worked in a prestigious and independent family-owned manufacture in Geneva: Patek Philippe SA. First in the quality department, then as a lab technician in watchmaking, he kept on improving his abilities in elaborating, optimizing and assembling timekeepers. In August 2016, driven by a deep desire to set up his own business, he created the project of his dreams: Semper & Adhuc atelier, an elegant and durable watch production company creating new watches from restored old watch mechanisms.