Vianney Halter A French watchmaker, Vianney Halter has been fascinated by watches and clocks from early age on. He attended watchmaking school in Paris at age 13 and at 17 he began specializing in horological restoration work. After moving to Switzerland, he established his own company ?Janvier SA? in 1994, named after famous French clockmaker Antide Janvier (1751 - 1835). Today Halter, a member of the AHCI (Académie horlogère des créateurs indépendants? or ?Academy of Independent Watch Creators?), lives in the idyllic Swiss town of Ste.-Croix, where his firm produces a small and exclusive line of watches like the ?Antiqua? (introduced in 1999), the ?Contemporaine?, the ?Trio? and the ?Classic?. These unusually designed wristwatches or perhaps more accurately, ?time-sculptures? , defy all conventions, yet Halter?s vision of presenting time follows the highest standards of traditional watchmaking. Like his AHCI colleagues Francois-Paul Journe, Antoine Preziuso or Peter Speake-Marin, in 2003 Vianney Halter collaborated with famous New York-based jewelry house ?Harry Winston? , joining forces to built the inimitable ?Opus 3? wristwatch with its 6 portholes and 10 independently rotating discs that display time.