ANDERSON GENEVE
The story of ANDERSON GENEVE
Svend ANDERSEN was born in the Danish city of Copenhagen in 1942. He completed regular and practical education as well as a four-year watchmaking apprenticeship. In 1963, he traveled to Switzerland with his certificate from the Danish Watchmaker School, which was part of the Royal Technological Institute of Copenhagen, to study how the world's greatest watches were created.
He began his career in after-sales service at Gübelin Lucerne before joining Gübelin Geneva in 1965. Because of his strong language skills, he was also in charge of the store service.
As a pastime, he created his first Bottle Clock in 1969, which he showed at the "Montres et Bijoux" Show. This one-of-a-kind feat earned him the moniker "Watchmaker of the Impossible" in the international press. Nobody has ever thought of such a clock before.
Svend ANDERSEN joined Patek Philippe's "Atelier des Grandes Complications" in 1969 after becoming interested in ANDERSEN's work. After 9 years at Patek Philippe, Svend ANDERSEN established his own workshop in the late 1970s.
He began his profession as a self-employed watchmaker by making cases for Italian collectors. Because of the exceptional quality of the work, watch collectors began to request customised watches (dubbed "pièce unique"). ANDERSEN Genève has been creating intricate watches such as the yearly calendar, perpetual calendar, and jumping hour calendar since then.
ANDERSEN Genève acquired not just the respect of watch collectors, but also of his colleagues. In 1985, Svend ANDERSEN co-founded the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI). He created the world's smallest calendar watch (6.5 x 17.4mm), approximately the size of a match head, in 1989. The Guinness Book of World Records granted him world records. In 1994, one of his world time watches (the "Mundus") was named the thinnest world time watch ever manufactured.
Frank Müller, Felix Baumgartner, and Philippe Quentin, to mention a few, have always been welcomed and trained at Genève. Today, two master watchmakers work with Svend ANDERSEN at the atelier, while one administrator oversees the non-watchmaking aspects.
For more over four decades, ANDERSEN Geneve has been producing high-end timepieces for watch collectors.
ANDERSEN Genève invites collectors from all over the globe to design and build the “one-of-a-kind” piece they've always imagined.
Aside from being "one-of-a-kind," several remarkable clocks have become Iconic watches among watch collectors.
The Secular Perpetual Calendar is one of ANDERSEN Genève's most sophisticated watches. It's a timepiece that takes into account a Gregorian Calendar quirk: three secular years that aren't divisible by 400: 2100, 2200, and 2300, aren't leap years. Regular perpetual calendars require manual adjustment in these years, as there is no need for an extra day in February. ANDERSEN Genève's complexity will display the date without modification every year up to and beyond 2400.
Svend ANDERSEN had the opportunity to work on the worldtime complication invented by Geneva-based watchmaker Louis Cottier while working at Patek Philippe in the early 1970s.
In the 1930s, Mr. Cottier invented the first pocket watch, followed by the first wristwatch with a multi-timezone display.
ANDERSEN Genève created its first world time watch in 1989 to commemorate Louis Cottier's inaugural world time wristwatch. The watches were supplied to watch collectors in 1990, and it was a huge success. ANDERSEN Genève has been producing world time watches and "one-of-a-kind" pieces since then.ANDERSEN Genève is known for its world time timepieces.