Watchmaker: Christiaan van der Klaauw
Published on Nov 16, 2019 by Sachin.

Christiaan Van der Klaauw is an independent watchmaker who started Astronomy as a hobby and after training for 3 months at the Leiden Observatory decided to turn his hobby into a profession by making Astronomical watches. Since 4 decades his workshop is making Astronomical watches where each watch is special on its own and powered by an automatic movement.

His visit to Eise Eisinga Planetarium ¹ in Franeker inspired him to recreate a Solar System suspended from the ceiling of the living room into a wrist watch known as the Planetarium(1999). Christiaan Van der Klaauw is also the former member of AHCI². The other two most known collections are the Orion(2010) which accurately represents the position of the Celestial stars every night and the Real Moon Joure(2012) which has a moon face in 3D unlike other designs where the moon is represented on a plane. It represents the phases of the moon with the accuracy of a 1 day in 11000 years.

Masters of Time Independent Watchmaker Christiaan van der Klaauw Beat Haldimann

Christiaan van der Klaauw at Baselworld 2017