AHCI at VO Vintage: in search of lost time

The Group includes some of the world's best-known and most innovative watchmakers, backed by years of experience participating in the industry's most important events, including, from this edition onwards, VicenzaOro Vintage.
AHCI will bring six of the Group's 30 members: Robert Bray, Vincent Calabrese, David Candaux, Sebastian Naeschke, Lin Yong-Hua, Zehua Tan, and John-Mikael Flaux.
Bray entered this world after studying production engineering at Brunel University in 1979. In 1995, after working in the aerospace and medical fields, he redirected his skills in watchmaking to Sinclair Harding in Cheltenham. The most impressive piece? An H1 that belonged to none other than Beatles member John Harrison.

Vincent Calabrese is one of the founders of AHCI, a self-taught watchmaker-philosopher who represents a provocative challenge to the mechanical tradition of the industry. Among his best works is a ying tourbillon with a classic display or regulator combined with extraordinary aesthetics.

David Candaux is a third-generation master watchmaker who learned the art from his father and grandfather and chose to share his vision of what 21st-century watchmaking should look like. Then there is Sebastian Naeschke, second generation of watchmaking at Maison Naeschke and already responsible for the design and production of the Guinand, Chronosport, and Jubilar brands, and Lin Yong Hua - LYH, who, after years spent in watch production, immersed himself in timekeeping, perpetual calendars, minute repeaters, and tourbillons. In 2016, he created his first watch: the Vinyl Record.

Zehua Tan, born in China, grew up surrounded by watches thanks to his father, a famous watch repairer. Finally, John-Mikael Flaux, a graduate of the Edgard Faure school in Morteau, France, created The Wasp, a watch mechanism in the shape of an insect. In 2015 and 2016, he created the Super-Catamaran table clock for Ulysse-Nardin, inspired by offshore racing boats.