Founder, watchmaker Ulysse Nardin, was an accomplished watchmaker who studied horology under his father, Leonard-Frederic Nardin, Frederic William Dubois and Louis Jean Richard-dit-Bressel, in Switzerland.
President Rolf W. Schnyder and Dr. Ludwig Oechslin are the visionaries and pioneers behind the Ulysse Nardin name as we know it today.
Going against the mainstream current of Swiss watchmaking, the duo joined forces in 1983, when Schnyder purchased the company and sought Oechslin’s expertise and free-thinking approach to timepiece engineering and design. Schnyder was astounded by a wall clock astrolabe Oechslin had built after restoring the Farnesian clock in the Vatican museum and requested that Oechslin reduce the astrolabe to a wristwatch. Thus, the Astrolabium Galileo Galilei, the first watch from Oechslin’s Trilogy of Time series, was born, returning the revered watchmaker to the spotlight and securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. Schnyder knew then that Oechslin had the energy he needed to take the Ulysse Nardin name to an unsurpassed level of ingenuity, originality and quality.
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