EMERAIndependent Swiss Manufacture
The Team.
A House is never built alone. Around the founders, a small circle of talents driven by the same demand: to bring forth what has never been seen before.
Patrick
Freiburghaus.
Architect of invisible forms.
A Swiss designer, founder of Bureau Miami and co founder of EMERA. More than a quarter of a century devoted to shaping time. Before watch design, he trained in Switzerland in the plastic and applied arts, as well as in jewellery, gem setting and gemmology. From this twofold culture, artistic and that of the jeweller, comes his singular way of working form, stone and precious metal.
His approach, at the frontier of the visible and the invisible, defines his identity. He does not draw timepieces but hybrid organisms — an unexplored territory where the organic and the mechanical merge. Member of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG).
“What does not yet have form already exists.”
Cyrano
Devanthey.
Keeper of living calibres.
More than thirty years spent in the silence of the workshops, at the heart of the most demanding complications in haute horlogerie. He headed the tourbillon department at Omega and developed complications for great houses. With his partner Dominique Buser, he founded Oscillon, an ultra confidential brand of unique pieces, and Bumont, a development bureau whose expertise is now sought by other houses.
This path led him to Naissance d une Montre 2, the transmission project of the Time Aeon Foundation, where he was one of the two watchmakers tasked with making, entirely by hand, a constant force timepiece with the support of Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey. Member of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG).
“Every component has a will. The art of haute horlogerie is knowing when to listen to it.”
Quentin
Hoerdt.
Sculptor of infinite light.
Having worked at Richard Mille and the Geneva studio Le Truc, he carries EMERA into the visual dimension with a vision that reinvents the codes. His mastery of photorealistic rendering and art direction extends its universe to where the image becomes matter.
“This is no longer fine watchmaking. It is what outlasts time.”
Louis
Ducruet.
Ambassador.
Son of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and nephew of H.S.H. Prince Albert II, a figure of Monaco new guard, Louis Ducruet embodies the spirit of EMERA. Quiet strength and calm audacity.
In his image, the owners of an EMERA do not merely collect watches, they live experiences, and wear time as both a force and a statement, the mark of those who resemble no one.
The silent hands.
EMERA is an entirely Swiss House. Design, assembly and final inspection take place in our workshops.
Machining is entrusted to established Swiss watchmaking partners. Finishing is shared between our hands and those of rigorously selected masters of anglage and polishing. Mirror polishing, vertical brushing, bead blasting — each surface receives the treatment it calls for.
This excellence is never an end. It exists so that no other watch in the world gives its wearer what an EMERA offers.