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seventeenth October 2024
With over 20 years of mixed expertise on the earth of watches, Danielle and Jonathan (a husband and spouse group) share a deep ardour for curating, creating, and connecting collectors and lovers with timepieces from famend watchmakers.
Helicon is a brand new dial title, launched this yr by two business veterans with greater than twenty years of expertise within the enterprise of promoting and sourcing watches – in any respect worth ranges and from a mess of makers – to and for collectors and lovers around the globe. Having been carefully concerned in conceptualising and growing many fashions, the Helicon group has constructed an in depth community of designers, historians, producers and suppliers from the important thing watch centres of Switzerland, Germany, France and Japan. The assistance and recommendation of many of those long-standing buddies and colleagues was known as upon to make sure Helicon watches are ‘proper’ from the very begin – and they’re assured that their high quality and assured rarity will guarantee they attraction to collectors. Above all, nevertheless, Helicon need each proprietor to not solely wish to put on their watch every single day however really feel assured in doing so with out fear – guaranteeing a Helicon is a good friend for all times.
“We have been each working within the watchmaking business as freelancers for different individuals. We had the data of manufacturers, of design, of producing, of gross sales and advertising. And after about 20 years within the business, we needed to do it for ourselves however do it in a method that we felt we might supply what greater manufacturers cannot, which is nice high quality, inventive design and unique restricted numbers. I at all times suppose we put on a watch the identical method as we put on lovely garments. We’re not carrying them essentially today for performance, however they’re a part of our expression and what we get pleasure from. What we have tried to attain is an on a regular basis carrying watch. We would like you to put on them every single day.”
This can be a shortened transcribed edit of episode 223 of the MenswearStyle Podcast with Jonathan Bordell, Co-Founding father of British watch model heliconwatches.com. You possibly can hearken to the total model on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast participant.
