====== Giroud, Eric ======
**Eric Giroud** is a Swiss designer and architect best known for his collaboration with [[MB&F]] and [[Harry Winston]].

After opening an architecture practice in [[1989]], Giroud broadened his design work to other areas, including graphic design, packaging, writing instruments, lighting fixtures, furniture, and electronics. He designed his first watch in [[1997]] and established a watch design office the following year.

One of Giroud's first high-profile designs was of the [[MCT Sequential One|Sequential One]] for [[MCT]]. This used rotating triangular "blades" to display the hour digitally alongside a rotating minute hand. Another digital display was the [[Swarovski]] D LIGHT, which illuminated the time on demand behind a grid of crystals. But his most important early work was the [[2008]] [[Harry Winston]] [[Harry Winston Opus 9|Opus 9]], which displayed the hour and minute with red garnets in two chains of diamonds that rotate longitudinally around the watch case. This watch won the [[GPHG]] in [[2009]], his second such award after the [[Harry Winston Tourbillon Glissière]] two years earlier. Giroud also worked with [[Badollet]], [[Rebellion]], [[Tissot]], and [[Heritage Watch Manufactory]] at this time.

Giroud's major work in the 2010s was with [[MB&F]]. He collaborated with [[Max Büsser]] and other watchmakers on the design for every entry in the [[MB&F Horological Machine]] line starting with the [[MB&F HM1|Horological Machine N. 1]]. The [[MB&F HM5|Horological Machine N. 5]] is a mechanical [[digital]] watch that shows the time using luminous material on two discs. Giroud also helped with the [[MB&F LM1|Legacy Machine N. 1]] and [[MB&F HM6|Horological Machine N. 6]]. He also redesigned the [[Van Cleef & Arpels Pierre Arpels|Pierre Arpels]] watch for [[Van Cleef & Arpels]] and worked with [[Manufacture Royale]] and [[Mathey-Tissot]] at that time. He finished the decade with a successful collaboration with [[Louis Erard]].


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