French watchmaker Vianney Halter has been fascinated by watches and clocks from childhood. He attended watchmaking school in Paris at age 13 and at 17 he began specializing in horological restoration work. After moving to Switzerland he established his own company “Janvier SA” in 1994 named after famous French clockmaker Antide Janvier. Today Halter a member of the AHCI (Académie horlogère des créateurs indépendants” or “Academy of Independent Watch Creators”) lives in the town of Ste.-Croix in Switzerland where his fi rm produces a small and exclusive line of watches like the “Antiqua’ (introduced in 1999) the “Contemporaine” the “Trio” and the “Classic”. These unusually designed wristwatches or perhaps more accurately “timesculptures” defy all conventions yet Halter’s vision of presenting time follows the highest standards of traditional watchmaking. In 2003 Vianney Halter collaborated with the well-known New York jewelry house Harry Winston joining forces to build the inimitable “Opus 3” wristwatch with its 6 portholes and 10 independently rotating discs that display time