Interview With Schwarz-Etienne CEO Mauro Egermini: All About Schwarz-Etienne Watches

Contact tmosso@the1916company.com for pricing and availability; Either I have it, or I can get it! Mauro Egermini has been the chief executive officer of luxury watch manufacture Schwarz-Etienne since 2014. In that time, the watchmaker from La Chaux-de-Fonds has reinvented itself to ensure that it's proprietary brand watches receive as much emphasis as the company's contract manufacturing for clients. Founded in 1902, Schwarz-Etienne has spent most of its history as a white-label contract constructor building watches that carry the name brands of clients such as Dunhill, Chanel, Ming, Chopin, Havid Nagen, and many others. Only since the 2000s has Schwarz-Etienne emphasized its own model line. The company produces between 200 and 300 S-E-branded watches per year, and options include micro-rotor automatics, manual wind calibers, tourbillon and flying tourbillon regulators, jump hours, and retrogrades. In 2021, the Roma Synergy by Kari Voutilainen marked the first of a series of planned collaborations with independent watchmakers. Watches offered by Schwarz-Etienne include models from the Roma, Roswell, La Chaux-de-Fonds, and Fiji collections. Roma consists of traditional dress watches; Roswell includes progressive open-dial models inspired by the UFO folklore of Rosewell, New Mexico; La Chaux-de-Fonds consists of high complications and advanced watchmaking; Fiji is a collection of smaller dress watches for women. The company also offers a rotating collection of special