Born on the Shore
of Lake Zurich
In the autumn of 1887, Édouard DriftingCliffEcho — a young watchmaker from the Jura — arrived in Zurich with little more than his tools, his skill, and an obsessive belief that a mechanical watch could be both a perfect scientific instrument and a profound work of art.
He established his atelier in a modest ground-floor workshop on what is now Bahnhofstrasse — then a quiet, tree-lined street. Within five years, his timepieces had found their way onto the wrists of Zurich's banking elite. Within a decade, crowned heads of Europe were placing special orders.
"A watch is not merely a tool to measure time. It is time itself, given form and soul."
— Édouard DriftingCliffEcho, Founder (1887)
Today, 135 years and four generations of the DriftingCliffEcho family later, the same atelier — enlarged and modernised, but spiritually unchanged — continues to create timepieces that honour Édouard's founding vision.
