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Giulio Papi: Young man in a hurry went it alone
By Nick Foulkes
Published: June 13 2008 18:16 | Last updated: June 13 2008 18:16
Renaud & Papi is not a name you will see on any watch dials. However, within the watch industry, this small company, based in the outskirts of Le Locle, Switzerland, is a byword for horological excellence. There is no Renaud & Papi brand but Giulio Papi is regarded as one of the leading watchmakers of Switzerland.
For Mr Papi, the work matters more than public recognition, and he is happy to develop and make small runs of exquisite, ultra-complicated watches for brands as diverse as Audemars Piguet, Richard Mille and Parmigiani. His philosophy of watchmaking is one that blends traditional craft skills with an awareness of new technologies and materials. He has a word that describes this: “micromechanicien”. It also fits what Mr Papi was like growing up.
“When I was a child I liked a lot of technical things; engines, aeroplanes, not necessarily watches, but technical objects and, in the area of Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds, if you want to work with technical objects, you work in the watch industry.” Born in 1965, he was unfortunate to enter watchmaking school in 1980, when the Swiss industry was at its nadir. The influx of cheap quartz watches from Asia had brought it to a state of near collapse. That year he was the only student.
However, such was the quality of the tuition, that he still speaks with great warmth of his erstwhile master, Jean Claude Nicolet, a watchmaker he likens to the cult British horological figure, George Daniels, for his ability to realise a watch from start to finish. Mr Papi’s definition of haute horlogerie is contingent on a watchmaker being able to master every aspect of constructing a timepiece.
So, it was with the enthusiasm of youth and the inspiration of great teaching, that young Giulio Papi launched himself on the watch industry. He soon found work at Audemars Piguet, one of the pillars of haute horlogerie , but he was somewhat crestfallen when he found out that in this venerable company things moved at a rather slow pace. If he proved diligent and talented, he might get the chance to start working on complicated watches in ... say ... 20 years.
Two decades is a long time and, at age 19, it must have seemed an eternity. It must be remembered that, at the time, the Swiss watch industry was less dynamic than now. Even AP, which had revolutionised the luxury watch world with the introduction of the Royal Oak in 1972, made a mere 12,000 or so watches with a workforce of 200.. Today the company employs approximately 1,000 people and has an annual output of around 27,500 pieces.
He was not prepared to wait: after a couple of years he left and, with another young watchmaker (Dominique Renaud, who has since retired from watchmaking), founded his own company. Their first job was to develop a minute repeater for IWC, and they have not looked back since.
Today, well over half of their production is for AP, a leading backer for the business when it started, and the majority shareholder with an 80 per cent stake.
But perhaps his most striking work has been for Richard Mille, with whom he has developed a new horological aesthetic, introducing materials such as carbon nanofibre and making two impressive technical innovations: the torque indicator and function selector. The first of these gives information about the delivery of power from the mainspring; it keeps the wearer updated as to the state of its winding to ensure optimum power delivery. The function selector is another nifty device. It acts like the gearbox of a car, allowing engagement of the wind or setting functions without pulling out the crown.
Mr Papi can talk happily about complications and new materials for hours. However, when I ask him what he is working on, he is evasive. All he will say is that he is well advanced on new watches for AP. When pressed, he admits skeleton movements will play a part. It seems he will get his wish to work on skeleton watches for AP after all, even if it has taken more than 20 years.
Giulio Papi: Young man in a hurry went it alone
By Nick Foulkes
Published: June 13 2008 18:16 | Last updated: June 13 2008 18:16
Renaud & Papi is not a name you will see on any watch dials. However, within the watch industry, this small company, based in the outskirts of Le Locle, Switzerland, is a byword for horological excellence. There is no Renaud & Papi brand but Giulio Papi is regarded as one of the leading watchmakers of Switzerland.
For Mr Papi, the work matters more than public recognition, and he is happy to develop and make small runs of exquisite, ultra-complicated watches for brands as diverse as Audemars Piguet, Richard Mille and Parmigiani. His philosophy of watchmaking is one that blends traditional craft skills with an awareness of new technologies and materials. He has a word that describes this: “micromechanicien”. It also fits what Mr Papi was like growing up.
“When I was a child I liked a lot of technical things; engines, aeroplanes, not necessarily watches, but technical objects and, in the area of Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds, if you want to work with technical objects, you work in the watch industry.” Born in 1965, he was unfortunate to enter watchmaking school in 1980, when the Swiss industry was at its nadir. The influx of cheap quartz watches from Asia had brought it to a state of near collapse. That year he was the only student.
However, such was the quality of the tuition, that he still speaks with great warmth of his erstwhile master, Jean Claude Nicolet, a watchmaker he likens to the cult British horological figure, George Daniels, for his ability to realise a watch from start to finish. Mr Papi’s definition of haute horlogerie is contingent on a watchmaker being able to master every aspect of constructing a timepiece.
So, it was with the enthusiasm of youth and the inspiration of great teaching, that young Giulio Papi launched himself on the watch industry. He soon found work at Audemars Piguet, one of the pillars of haute horlogerie , but he was somewhat crestfallen when he found out that in this venerable company things moved at a rather slow pace. If he proved diligent and talented, he might get the chance to start working on complicated watches in ... say ... 20 years.
Two decades is a long time and, at age 19, it must have seemed an eternity. It must be remembered that, at the time, the Swiss watch industry was less dynamic than now. Even AP, which had revolutionised the luxury watch world with the introduction of the Royal Oak in 1972, made a mere 12,000 or so watches with a workforce of 200.. Today the company employs approximately 1,000 people and has an annual output of around 27,500 pieces.
He was not prepared to wait: after a couple of years he left and, with another young watchmaker (Dominique Renaud, who has since retired from watchmaking), founded his own company. Their first job was to develop a minute repeater for IWC, and they have not looked back since.
Today, well over half of their production is for AP, a leading backer for the business when it started, and the majority shareholder with an 80 per cent stake.
But perhaps his most striking work has been for Richard Mille, with whom he has developed a new horological aesthetic, introducing materials such as carbon nanofibre and making two impressive technical innovations: the torque indicator and function selector. The first of these gives information about the delivery of power from the mainspring; it keeps the wearer updated as to the state of its winding to ensure optimum power delivery. The function selector is another nifty device. It acts like the gearbox of a car, allowing engagement of the wind or setting functions without pulling out the crown.
Mr Papi can talk happily about complications and new materials for hours. However, when I ask him what he is working on, he is evasive. All he will say is that he is well advanced on new watches for AP. When pressed, he admits skeleton movements will play a part. It seems he will get his wish to work on skeleton watches for AP after all, even if it has taken more than 20 years.
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