Christian Lass

Christian Lass founded his brand in 2018 after working in Swiss watchmaking - most recently as Master Watchmaker at the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva, and earlier at Vianney Halter in Ste. Croix. He's joined by his wife Hannelore Lass, a German-born hand engraver and trained watchmaker. She started at Sinn, then became Vianney Halter's in-house engraver, responsible for many of the Classic, Trio, and Antiqua Perpetual dials. She spent eight and a half years at Olivier Vaucher, the Geneva dial decoration specialist, and had a stint at BNB Concept. The couple settled on the Danish island of Funen, setting up their atelier in Haarby inside a renovated industrial building. The workshop houses a Haas CNC multi-axis milling machine, a vintage Tornos cam-driven lathe sourced from Patek Philippe, case burnishing and sunburst cutting machines, perlage and Agathon grinding equipment, plus dedicated stations for hand engraving, anglage, black polishing, and final assembly. Their debut timepiece, the 30CP, is a manually wound, time-only wristwatch with an entirely in-house movement. It was made in a limited run of 50 pieces. Christian trained an apprentice and still sources Gentian plant stems from the Swiss Jura for traditional mirror-polish finishing - a stubborn commitment to old-world craft.