Meeting Steven Holtzman of Maîtres Du Temps.

Maîtres Du Temps, a relatively young watch brand, has been gaining a strong following in recent years. Having heard of it, I had a keen interest in viewing their collection, hoping to gain a better understanding of their perspective on watchmaking. With thanks to Peter Chong of www.deployant.com I was able to meet up with their founder, Steven Holtzman during a press luncheon last week. I was delighted to be given the opportunity to hear him share about his passion and innovation as well as how he plans to move forward with the brand.

Peter Chong Editorial Director of  www.deployant.com introduced Steven Holtzman

Founder Steven Holtzman shared with us the brand's philosophy and strategy. 

Right: Walter Ribaga (Director of Operations, Maîtres Du Temps)

Maîtres Du Temps movement 

Left: Two disc Date wheels with the Month and Day barrels located on the top and bottom of the assembly.

Right: Rotor details.                                                                                             

The rolling bars for month or day indicators 

Top: The barrel (rolling bar) is made of raw aluminum alloy.

Middle: After anodizing and engraved with the months of the year

Bottom: View of the hollowed internal of the barrel.    

Maîtres Du Temps Chapter 1 is a massive watch with heavy complication (pun intended) featuring a tourbillon, retrograde GMT, retrograde date and distinctive barrels showing the moon phase (top) and day (bottom) indication. Oh .....throw in a monopusher chronograph too!        

Safety lock: Slide and press the pushers to activate the various complication.

Definitely too big for my wrist :)

Maîtres Du Temps Chapter 2 incorporates an instantaneous triple calendar and big date. 

Maîtres Du Temps Chapter 2 TCR (Triple Calendar Round)

Maîtres Du Temps Chapter 3 Midnight Blue Red Gold, resulted from the collaboration with Kari Voutilainen and Andreas Strehler. Kari fans can instantly recognize Kari's signature dial design for this timepiece. My favorite of the three because it's classic looking!   

The Chapter 3 has an intriguing complication. Activate a pusher on the crown and it will reveal the day/night indicator at 12 o'clock and a second time zone at 6 o'clock. By pressing the pusher again, the dial panels will slide back to hide the indicators.

   

Close up of the beautiful guilloche dial.

Movement details

The case size of 42 mm is perfect!

A splendid lunch.....thanks to Maîtres Du Temps and Deployant!