====== Christophe Claret ======
**Christophe Claret** is an [[eponymous]] Swiss watchmaker and watch manufacturer.

===== Overview =====
Christophe Claret is a specialist maker of complex [[watch movement]]s [[Tourbillon]]s, [[repetition]]s, [[chronograph]]s, split time displays or [[perpetual calendar]]s. Before he started his own business, he worked for 10 months with [[Roger Dubuis]], another promising young watchmaker. Claret established his own workshop in [[1986]] and began delivering exclusive movements and watches for high-end watchmakers in the following years. In [[1987]], [[Ulysse Nardin]] became the first major client with an order for 20 minute repeater movements. Other clients include [[Breguet]], [[Cartier]], [[Chopard]], [[Corum]], [[de Grisogono]], [[Franck Muller]], [[Girard-Perregaux]], [[Harry Winston]], and [[Parmigiani]]. Many of these had high-end movement workshops of their own but chose Claret for his ability to deliver [[repetition|chiming]] movements.

In [[2003]] Christophe Claret, together with Thierry Oulevay, who had previously worked at [[Piaget]] and [[Bovet]], founded the watch manufacturer [[Jean Dunand]].

Claret himself has been called on by "super manufacturers", delivering the [[Harry Winston Opus 4]] in [[2004]] and co-creating the [[Maître du Temps]] [[Maître du Temps Chapter One|Chapter One]] tourbillon with [[Roger Dubuis]] and [[Peter Speake-Marin]] In [[2008]].

===== Address =====
Christophe Claret SA\\ Manoir du Soleil-d'Or 2\\ CH-2400 [[Le Locle]]\\ Tel. +41 (0) 32 933 80 80\\ Fax +41 (0) 32 933 80 81

===== Weblinks =====
  * [[http://www.christopheclaret.com/|Christophe Claret]] (official site)


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