The Workshops
Where dialogue yields mechanical results
Where art meets science
A timepiece is born of twin disciplines: the mind that questions and calculates, together with the hand that sculpts and adjusts. Within the Renaud Tixier ateliers, they are inseparable. Hovering between intellectual discipline and manual patience, mechanics finds its balance – and becomes a work of art.
Mechanical engineering
An ancestral art
An engineering concept remains incomplete until a hand brings it to life. This is the guiding ethos Julien Tixier brings to the Maison. Whereas the industry routinely delegates finishing, he places it at the very heart of creation: each hand-chamfered bridge, smoothed contour and mirror-polished internal angle bears the enduring imprint of a deliberate touch.
At Renaud Tixier, finishing is never an afterthought or surface ornament: it is an uncompromising verdict, the exact point at which mechanical precision becomes visible art.
Within the Tolochenaz workshops, the Maison safeguards the core traditions of fine watchmaking. Mirror polishing, rounded-off bridges, chamfering, Côtes de Genève, sunburst brushing and circular graining: each process reveals the material in its own way, captures and shapes the light, thereby contributing contributes to the identity of every component. Crafted in accordance with traditional watchmaking expertise, these finishes reflect a meticulous attention to proportions, the sharpness of edges and the quality of surfaces.
Artistic crafts dedicated to watchmaking
At Renaud Tixier, an artistic craft never serves merely to decorate a watch. It must have a reason for being. The Maison chooses to work with artisans whose mastery is a reference in their field; not to merely juxtapose skills, but to make them converse with watchmaking. Every collaboration is conceived from the very origin of the project, with the same demand for accuracy as that applied to the movement.
Grand Feu enamelling, applied to the ratchet wheel and developed more broadly in the Monday Organica trilogy, is one expression of this attitude. Hand engraving, executed on the flanks of the Monday case-middle, is another. In both instances and doubtless many more to come, craft never takes precedence over the timepiece. It accompanies it, accentuates its volumes, resonates with its movement and reveals its construction differently.
This subtle approach guides all the Maison's interactions. For the value of a craft lies not only in its rarity, but in the appropriateness of its place. Renaud Tixier thus remains dedicated to working exclusively with masters of uncompromising standards, all in service of a bold, shared horological ambition.
