Ever since the watch was created, the hands were inalterably fitted onto the spinning cogs following the rhythm of days, hours, minutes and seconds that passes by. Whether they are chronograph hand or date hand, hands obey the same rules: they’re beautiful and free of scratches. They’re tightly fitted onto their axis and freely moving and crossing each other. However, they’ll never touch each other and will resist to the shock and various environmental constraints that the watch might suffer.

Hand-setting is fundamental while putting together a watch. The mastery and stability of this process are not trivial and the user’s technical gestures were the main source of inspiration of our development from the initial idea to the public release of PAViX. Our quest for perfection led us to analyze, try, decompose user’s movements and actions, study and understand the parameters that have an impact on the operation and its result.

This information, coming from a long lasting watchmaker tradition combined with a modern and pragmatic functional analysis, naturally led us to create this new product. It’s neither a machine nor a standard hand tool. It is a device that, led by human hand, allows perpetuating the precision of the movements but in a 2.0 fashion.

Artificial intelligence is omnipresent yet discreet. No wires or physical constraint. Human know-how and 21st century’s quality requirement meet perfectly to deliver appropriate, measured and documented operation. In one word: effective. Industry’s needs are flexibility, safety, quality traceability productivity and ergonomics.

In the watchmaking industry, perhaps more than anywhere else, human abilities such as precision, adaptivity, judgment, versatility, a sense for detail and what is beautiful are requirements to create “dream products”. However, variability, distraction, judgment errors are embedded within this great abilities. Problems that arise from that are most of the time accepted as “human factor”. They give birth either to fatalism or extensive automation which is costly, not versatile and usually difficult to setup, maintain or even not suitable to reach the foreseen objectives.

We decided to take a different approach. No fatalism or robots. The most appropriate solution. We decided to value human skills while controlling every technical aspect of the operation. This is how PAViX was born.