DeWitt’s Company Portrait

Since the foundation of his company in 2002, Jérôme de Witt has been working tirelessly to create the genuine Manufacture of the 21st century. He is the conductor of an orchestra who brings talented and passionate watchmakers together under the DeWitt brand in his own workshops at Vandœuvres, Geneva. To ensure the continuation of a very precious art, he has also managed to secure an enthusiastic commitment to his philosophy towards movement engineers, designers, case makers and representatives of other craft trades which make the fine timepieces made by DeWitt an art form in their own right. They all share the same passionate commitment to exceptional timepieces bearing the DeWitt signature.

2005 was a year of particularly rich technological innovation with the launch of the brand’s first patent with the Academia Tourbillon Différentiel, a spherical differential system to wind the power reserve associated with a Tourbillon. The firm has every reason to be proud of this model because it won the First Prize for Innovation in the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie in Geneva in that same year.

2006 is an another equally exceptional year as the House of DeWitt has introduced a new patent at Baselworld, this time with the Constant Force Tourbillon, i.e. a regulator system which releases a constant force to the Tourbillon cage. The constant energy created in this way is used to ensure perfect control of the force, regardless of the degree to which the movement is wound.

Timepieces from the House of DeWitt are available in two separate collections: the Academia collection recognizable by its famous case with the stylized “Imperial Columns”, an architecture which is at one and the same time massive yet harmonious, fashioned in precious metals. The Academia collection consists entirely of exceptional complicated movements revisited by the Master Watchmakers in Vandœuvres, where “manufactured” watches incorporating original mechanisms based on DeWitt’s own patents have been made since 2005. The second collection called Alma is designed for women. Recognizable by the same stylized “Imperial Columns”, it too proposes complicated movements, one of which is based on a patent for a special date display by Jerôme de Witt in 2005. The Alma models are all supplied in gold, delicately set with diamonds or coloured gemstones.