At a young age, Christophe Claret discovered a passion for the mechanics of time. After graduating from the Geneva Watchmaking School, he continued his training at Roger Dubuis. Subsequently, he set up his watchmaking workshop in Lyon specialising in restoration. He became a supplier of complicated movements to other watch brands starting in 1989, with the San Marco minute repeater, for Ulysse Nardin. Capitalising on this momentum, in 1989, Mr Claret founded the Claret manufacture in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Today, Christophe Claret is a fully integrated manufacture and has become a benchmark in the field of grand complication timepieces.