Every watch brand has a creation myth. Most involve inheritance, investors, or a factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds. INFINI's began in a classroom.
At the Wirtschaftsgymnasium Basel, final-year students must write a Matura thesis — a capstone project that stands between them and graduation. Most choose safe, academic topics. I chose a question that had haunted me for years.
What followed were nine months of sketches, six 3D-printed prototypes, CAD revisions at three in the morning, a long train ride to Biel to meet with the team at Horage, a CNC mill in Stuttgart turning a block of stainless steel into something wearable, and a hand-sprayed dial whose texture — entirely by accident — came out looking exactly like a glacier.
The thesis was submitted. The grade was good. But what survived the assessment wasn't the document. It was the conviction that independent watchmaking still has room for someone who simply wants to build something that outlasts them.
INFINI is what happens next.