Peter Stas founded Frederique Constant & Alpina together with his charming wife Aletta. The two did sell their company to Citizen recently, but are still very active.
Talking to Peter is always a pleasure since he is an early adopter. He was one of the first to offer in-house manufactured calibers for incredible low prices. Actually you do get an in-house developed and manufactured automatic perpetual calendar for less than 8000 Euros. Also in terms of smartwatches Peter was ahead of time. He offered his clients solutions how to combine both: the world of mechanical watchmaking and connected watches. And Peter offers a selection of smartwatches…
Listen to our conversation, where Peter points out some dangers he sees for the Swiss Watch Industry and gives some thoughts what should be done. Peter’s gesture in our thumbnail does already say a lot…