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What does time mean to you? It’s an odd question that we doubt you’ve thought about much recently. All of us spend time without noticing it; most of us tend to waste it. For our founder Mark Schwarz however, time came far too close to being up.
Switzerland isn’t the most dangerous place in the world, but even it has its dangers for a police officer and, after having far too close a call in the line of duty, Mark did what any sane person would do: he went for a beer.
Like the great philosophers of old, it was on a sunny day in a beer garden that Mark discovered what time meant to him. After his close run-in he realised just how precious it was of course, but his inner discourse went further. Time was immutable; you couldn’t control it no matter how hard you tried. Time is also deeply personal; we all perceive our lives and their onward momentums differently.
As it turns out, we weren’t the only ones that believed in Mark’s ideas. Swiss entrepreneurial investor Venture Kick saw the potential of his idea and awarded him the seed capital needed to get started. This is when Vault became a reality.
The three philosophical pillars that began the journey – preciousness, immutability and individuality – became the basis of our first watch, a timepiece devoted to preaching Mark’s newly-discovered gospel of time. Backed by a unique design ethos and the horological expertise of UhrTeil AG, in 2017 we released the V1. The rest will be history.
Time is precious. Keep it with a horological Vault.
Some years ago, I faced a life and death situation at work. This experience inspired me to fulfil my dream of creating a watch, which is not about timekeeping, but about time itself. That was the moment I decided to dedicate my life to the founding and development of my own horological start-up company.
– MARK SCHWARZ FOUNDER & CEO –