From Repair Bench to Direct Sourcing: Twenty-Seven Years

1998: a twenty-square-metre workshop

Three watchmakers rented a storefront on an old street and spent their days repairing watches, their evenings studying movements. That first year they restored 1,174 watches.

2009: the first direct purchase

The founders flew to Switzerland and signed a small-volume agreement with an independent workshop. Removing the middleman made price and lead time far more predictable.

Today, twenty-seven years on

AURELIS TIME sources directly from independent workshops in Switzerland and Germany. Every watch is tested for 72 hours before dispatch and carries a five-year service programme. We build homage timepieces: tributes to designs we admire, made honestly and sold at a fair price.

We do one thing: help time run a little truer.

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