The late Charles Meylan was a master watchmaker born in the Vallée de Joux who had quite the celebrated career in the Swiss watchmaking industry, having served as technical director of Favre-Leuba in Fleurier and then, Audemars Piguet. While he is no longer among us, we continue to be blessed by his legacy through the works of two of this generation’s most gifted watchmakers. These two watchmakers, masters in their own right today, were under the tutelage of Charles Meylan during the critical transition years after the end of the Quartz Crisis and before the revival of the mechanical watch.
We speak of the Finnish watchmaker, presently residing in Môtiers, Switzerland, Kari Voutilainen, and the French watchmaker, Denis Flageollet, presently residing in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland — Kari Voutilainen, of course, being…
