Tradition means doing things the way they have always been done. It also has the connotation of dismissing all things new. Innovation, by contrast, stands for doing things differently from how they have been done in the past ?i.e. for breaking with tradition. In his upcoming December 3 lecture at the Horological Society of New York, Andreas Strehler will argue that, in watchmaking, true innovation is actually only possible when it's based on tradition and that the two are not in contradiction with one another.
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About Andreas StrehlerAndreas Strehler
After completing watchmaking school in Solothurn, Switzerland, Andreas Strehler started his career at the legendary company Renaud et Papi which is today Audemars Piguet (Renaud et Papi) SA, though at that time it was a small start-up. He was the first watchmaker there who was not one of the directors and he eventually became head of the prototype department at a time when his contemporaries were Robert Greubel, Stephen Forsey, Bart and Tim Grönefeld, and later Peter Speake-Marin.
Strehler then went back to his native Winterthur and started working on his own, initially in his father's garage. Today, Andreas Strehler is a Prix Gaïa laureate and a member of the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI). He has been an independent watchmaker for more than 20 years and his atelier is based in Sirnach, in the German speaking part of Switzerland. Andreas Strehler designs, constructs, and manufactures his movements in his own workshop with the help of a small and dedicated workforce. Only 10 replica watches are built every year under his name, and he personally assembled and regulates each one. Andreas also develops and constructs many of the tools and machines he uses. Through UhrTeil AG, his movement production business, he develops, designs, and manufactures movements for other brands too.
Monday, December 3, 2018, 6:00-9:00 PM at The General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
Doors open at 6:00 PM; lecture begins promptly at 7:00 PM. Free tickets are required to attend.
All HSNY meetings are free and open to the public, and all lectures are video recorded.
HODINKEE is a sponsor of the Horological Society of New York.
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