“It was probably the thought of getting down to the seriousness of life itself that led me there, to something tangible, since with my other studies I couldn’t really earn much money.” “Spöring was probably the only watchmaker who would have taken someone like me having attended university and then going on to an apprenticeship at the age of 24 was completely unorthodox,” Oechslin recalls of these early days. His horological story began with Jörg Spöring’s workshop in Lucerne. However, he discovered that he wanted to work with his hands, but not in the usual way rather in a way that allowed him to combine the physical and the intellectual. Oechslin had already been studying the humanities since 1972, when he began earning degrees in archaeology, ancient history, Greek, Latin, art history, and philosophy at the University of Basel. Oechslin, born in 1952 in Gabice Mare, Italy, burst on to the high watchmaking scene in the mid-1980s with Ulysse Nardin and the mechanical renaissance, which this brand and its visionary leader Rolf Schnyder helped usher in. Watchmaking is extremely fortunate to have a personality and thinker like Oechslin as part of the fabric of its existence a man who today is called to join every conceivable committee, jury and panel in search of his expertise and sensible viewpoints.īut entering this industry back in the 1980s was not a given. Ludwig Oechslin (photo courtesy Bea Weinmann/Ochs und Junior)
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