5 stores · curated ORBIS register
Marktgasse, Bern
Weekly market in Bern's Old Town featuring artisans from across Switzerland. Handmade textiles, woodwork, jewelry, and pottery. Set against the backdrop of Bern's UNESCO-listed medieval architecture.
Best for Handmade textiles, woodwork, jewelry, and pottery
Geneva / Switzerland / Online
Swiss watchmaker since 1980 — The Art of Fusion. Ceramic, carbon and gold fusions, Big Bang bravado and bold, oversized aesthetics.
Best for Fusion materials and bold contemporary watches
Carlo Crocco founded Hublot in 1980 with a heresy: a gold watch on a black rubber strap. The name means porthole — the bezel's exposed screws made the nautical case explicit — and the establishment's horror lasted exactly as long as it took royalty and tycoons to start wearing one comfortably. Rubber, it turned out, was the luxury.
The second act made the first look timid. Jean-Claude Biver arrived in 2004 preaching "the Art of Fusion" and delivered the Big Bang in 2005 — a layered, screwed, unmistakably loud chronograph fusing ceramic, carbon, gold and rubber that multiplied the company's revenues and won Geneva's Grand Prix. Magic Gold, the house's patented scratch-resistant gold-ceramic alloy, made the fusion thesis literal; sapphire cases made it transparent.
Under LVMH since 2008, Hublot owns the sports-marketing wrist — FIFA World Cup timekeeper, football's referee boards, Usain Bolt, Kylian Mbappé. The register is confident maximalism: engineering as spectacle, worn by people done with subtlety.
Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich
Non-profit shop promoting traditional Swiss crafts and design. Handmade textiles, ceramics, woodwork, and jewelry from artisans across all 26 cantons.
Best for Handmade textiles, ceramics, woodwork, and jewelry from artisans across all 26 cantons
Sonogno / Switzerland
Pro Verzasca runs a craft shop in Sonogno selling handspun, naturally dyed wool goods alongside ceramics, textiles, honey, and wine from fellow Ticino artisans, continuing a nearly 90-year-old wool-working tradition. The shop is open seasonally with select pieces also available through the Vera Verzasca online store.
Best for Craft & Textiles
Lengnau, Switzerland
The master of materials — scratchproof ceramic since the DiaStar, Captain Cook’s vintage-diver revival.
Best for Ceramic watches, Captain Cook
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