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BaselWorld 2018 - Fiona Krüger
This year at BaselWorld I had the pleasure to meet Fiona Krüger for the first time. And this meeting completely changed my view of her watches.
Fiona comes from a Fine Arts background having studied at the ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne), where she had her first contacts with the watchmaking world. Fiona is not a watchmaker. She provides the ideas and supervises the development and production of her watches. She assures that each watch is a physical instance of her ideas and of the highest production quality.
Just one example of how ideas can change perception: I have in the past never understood Fiona's cases. They always seemed to me to be a foreign object around the dial, to not really fit. Well now I understand the case must be seen as a frame around a picture. It is a foreign object whose reason for existance is to separate the work of art from the physical world. To suspend it in it's own world. This is just what I have been seeing, I had just never caught the link.
Fiona didn't have anything new to show this year. There are still some watches available from the different Skull series'. But I am sworm to secrecy for that which will be coming up in the next 6 months. What I can say, however, is that we are again thinking about the essence of time. An innate property of time. And again we will have a physical instance of this idea and the physical instance will be produced by one of the leading actors of the Swiss watchmaking scene for Fiona Krüger.
Fiona comes from a Fine Arts background having studied at the ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne), where she had her first contacts with the watchmaking world. Fiona is not a watchmaker. She provides the ideas and supervises the development and production of her watches. She assures that each watch is a physical instance of her ideas and of the highest production quality.
Just one example of how ideas can change perception: I have in the past never understood Fiona's cases. They always seemed to me to be a foreign object around the dial, to not really fit. Well now I understand the case must be seen as a frame around a picture. It is a foreign object whose reason for existance is to separate the work of art from the physical world. To suspend it in it's own world. This is just what I have been seeing, I had just never caught the link.
Fiona didn't have anything new to show this year. There are still some watches available from the different Skull series'. But I am sworm to secrecy for that which will be coming up in the next 6 months. What I can say, however, is that we are again thinking about the essence of time. An innate property of time. And again we will have a physical instance of this idea and the physical instance will be produced by one of the leading actors of the Swiss watchmaking scene for Fiona Krüger.
No offense but it would take more than me meeting her.....
to change my impression of her watches. Not saying anything bad, just not my "cup of tea" so to speak. There's lots of people in the world, that's why there's lot's of different watches.
No, it is time for something new...
Fiona started her Skull series' in 2013 and it is now running out.
This year will see the launch of a new series, a new take on an aspect of time.
As it is with all Fine Arts influenced work you have to buy into the story behind.
Don
This year will see the launch of a new series, a new take on an aspect of time.
As it is with all Fine Arts influenced work you have to buy into the story behind.
Don