“I think there are awesome designs in every era and in every brand,” says Eisenzammer. I love to wear the Santos or the Tank Must.”īut otherwise, Eisenzammer can veer in the direction of Polerouter – a Gerald Genta design from 1954 for Universal Genève, or even unusual war-time pieces from Movado. “I work by the period, so my latest cool period is the Cartier craziness. “I love having a variety of models but almost never at the same time,” says Eisenzammer. His collection is as diverse as his artworks. But most times it’s just purely out of my own imagination and how the watch inspires me.” “Sometimes it’s inspired by the watch history, or the way it’s designed. “First I see the watch and I create a universe that I think would suit it best,” he says of his creative process. There’s an infinite variety in them, that’s what I love.” Melting Cartier Crash by Alex Eisenzammer works are all digital, always on his graphic tablet, which allows him to sketch out fast ideas on the go. “I find it very interesting to recreate these watch shapes, sometimes very edgy or some other times very smooth and round. “It’s a great way to mix my passion for drawing and watch collecting,” he says. Watches to him represented an infinite pool of inspiration. L’Atelier featured a watch design inspired by the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, more simply known as the RD#2, the thinnest perpetual calendar watch on the market.Įisenzammer started drawing watches three years ago, starting with a minimalistic art piece of his first Omega, which he calls “a very unusual Cosmic with some Genta feeling to it”. Or perhaps they’ll remember his collaboration with French watchmaker Heritier on a limited run of pocket squares. Alex Eisenzammer gave me the most humble self-description when I asked him about his background, simply saying he’s a self-made artist from France, whose mother’s artistic career influenced him to embrace the same.īut his works speak for themselves: many seasoned collectors will have seen his art highlighted on the Instagram page of MB&F, which commissioned him to render creative illustrations of its avant-garde timepieces.

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