Swiss excellence in watchmaking and art mechanics is now inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The Swiss watchmaking industry is a cutting-edge one, with many inventions and world firsts to its credit. It was founded in Geneva in the mid-16th century, and the city quickly gained a reputation for excellence in watchmaking.
It continues to promote the finest watchmaking expertise at world-renowned trade shows such as Watches and Wonders and EPHJ.
It’s only natural that DAES should follow in this tradition of excellence and offer its watchmaking engineering services: from the linear mechanical analysis of springs, to the CFD study of air flows in contact with pendular elements, via studies of hunting, shock, dynamic and vibratory analysis, our expert numerical calculation engineers support the R&D of watchmaking projects.
The wristwatch is a constant reminder of the wearer’s most precious possession : time ! Choose who or what you’re going to spend it on, with a focus on quality, durability, precision and leaving a lasting impression.
Swiss watchmaking has maintained its position as world market leader for centuries. It is known and recognized for its dynamism and creativity, always capable of meeting new technological, economic and other challenges.
His many inventions and world firsts include the first water-resistant wristwatch, the world’s flattest wristwatch, the world’s smallest wristwatch, and many more…
Simulation techniques can be used to virtualize complications, systems and other miniaturized elements. They are an invaluable aid to the success of your R&D and design projects.
DAES’ Technical Director is behind the deployment of computing capabilities in the watchmaking sector. He took part in the first major computing project and trained many engineers in the field. Today, we continue to work with watchmakers on cutting-edge calculation issues, while bringing digital simulation upstream in the design process. Thanks to simulation, ever more audacious projects can be envisaged without compromising on the final result. This makes the engineering process for these complex objects increasingly efficient, particularly from a quality and reliability point of view, avoiding sizing errors that will only be detected later during the test phases, or even later when the watch is on the customer’s arm.
Our numerical simulations don’t just give you a result, they give you an inside view of what your parts undergo during the different operating modes to which they are subjected.
We used to do a bit of calculation, a lot of testing and prototyping… today we can do multiple virtual prototypes and only one test.
Watchmaking applications naturally transfer to biomedical engineering to help the medtech industry develop and design innovative medical devices for curative, preventive or predictive medicine.