Watchmaker workshop
Discover the soul of the mechanical watch
Watchmaking workshop at Maurice de Mauriac
CHF 150.-/person
- - 2h
- - Zurich
- - 4 to 7 people
- - From 16 years
- - Introduction
- - Material is provided
Photos @ Nicolas Bruni Photography
Maurice de Mauriac, watch brand from Zurich
What is your relationship to time? Is it more than keeping track of your agenda and a hand on the clock? Then immerse yourself in the concept of time in a place where everything revolves around it. To Maurice de Mauriac’s atelier – the place where mechanical watches have been thought, built and loved in the heart of Zurich since 1997.
As soon as you enter Maurice de Mauriac’s studio, you feel the passion of the Dreifuss family. Founded by Daniel Dreifuss in 1997, Massimo and Leo Dreifuss took over Maurice de Mauriac in 2021. They think in colors, structure in colors, feel colors and hear colors. Until a leather color for a watch band is found, the watch hand color is the way you want to feel it, the look and feel of a bronze are right, time can and should be allowed to pass.
Massimo and Leonard are working in front of the wall that separates the atelier from the workshop – behind which watchmakers can be dimly discerned, pursuing their detail-loving craftsmanship. At the front of the studio are hundreds of stories in the form of aesthetic features and memories, in between watches that all had their beginning in this studio.
Contents of the watchmaker workshop
With a set of tweezers this watchmaking workshop goes to the soul of the mechanical watch. You don’t just look inside the watch, but you can lay your own hands on the movement of the watch. After a quick journey through the time of Swiss watchmaking to today’s watch industry, you’ll learn the history of the Maurice de Mauriac manufacture brand. This takes 15 to 20 minutes, depending on how many questions may be answered.
Then the watchmaker will display an open movement and show the workshop participants how it works in detail. Afterwards you will receive original watchmaker’s clothing, the typical magnifying glass and you can put your hand and tweezers to the movement yourself – under the eyes of the expert, of course. Disassemble it first and experience how it ticks again after you have assembled it properly.
A gift at the end of the watchmaking workshop will show you our thanks for your interest and will seal the passion for the mechanical watch and us.
Location & How to get there
Atelier Maurice de Mauriac, Tödistrasse 48, 8002 Zurich
Accessible by public transport (station Enge or tram stop Stockerstrasse) or PV (white and blue parking spaces on site).
