{{Short description|Swiss businessman (born 1975)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox company | name = Romain Gauthier | logo = Romain Gauthier logo.svg | caption = | trading_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | romanized = | former type = | type = | traded_as = | industry = Watch manufacturing | products = Watches | genre = | fate = | predecessor = | successor = | foundation = Switzerland ({{Start date|2002}}) | founder = Romain Gauthier | defunct = | location_city = Le Sentier and Vallée de Joux | location_country = Switzerland | locations = | area_served = | key_people = Romain Gauthier | production = | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | aum = | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = {{URL|https://www.romaingauthier.com/}} | footnotes = | intl = | bodystyle = }}
'''Romain Gauthier''' was born in 1975 in Vallée de Joux, Switzerland. He specialized in precision mechanics in college and upon graduation he started working at François Golay<ref>{{cite web |last1=Marin |first1=Peter Speake |title=Romain Gauthier Maker of Watches |url=https://www.thenakedwatchmaker.com/people-romain-gauthier-eng |website=Thenakedwatchmaker |accessdate=14 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gauthier |first1=Romain |title=Milestones |url=https://www.romaingauthier.com/milestones |website=romaingauthier.com |accessdate=14 June 2019}}</ref> He is an independent Swiss manufacturer of watches<ref name="curtis-1">{{cite web|url=http://www.tempered-online.com/curtis/romain/vision/article.htm|title=Romain Gauthier: Vision Realized|last=D. Thomson|first=Curtis|date=April 2007|accessdate=26 November 2012}}</ref> based in Le Sentier and Vallée de Joux, Switzerland. He has been praised for his innovative horology engineering techniques<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-156460273.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309033515/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-156460273.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2016|title=Time for Indies|date=21 September 2008|work=New Straits Times |via=HighBeam Research|accessdate=19 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.luxury-insider.com/features/2007/profile-romain-gauthier-watches/|title=A New Star in the Independent Constellation: Montres Romain Gauthier|last=Skellern|first=Ian|date=February 2007|work=Luxury Insider|accessdate=19 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="skellern-1">{{cite web|url=https://www.underthedial.com/articles/romain_gauthier_1.html|title=Presenting Montres Romain Gauthier: A new star in the independent constellation|last=Skellern|first=Ian|date=November 2006|accessdate=26 November 2012}}</ref> and his design studio is also known for producing unique luxury items such as mechanical cufflinks.<ref name="swisstime-1">{{cite web|url=http://www.swisstime.ch/pgs/rwi-pgs-prod-lgs-en-idp-2093.html|title=ROMAIN GAUTHIER Mechanical Cufflinks|accessdate=26 November 2012}}</ref>
'Montres Romain Gauthier' launched in 2006 with the Prestige HM, featuring Romain Gauthier's own in-house manufacture movement. The HM was followed in 2012 by the Prestige HMS and Logical One in 2013.
Logical One<ref>Logical One by Ian Skellern published in QP magazine</ref> is a reinvention of the chain-and-fusee constant force mechanism, with a snail cam replacing the cone-shaped fusee.
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website}} *[http://journal.hautehorlogerie.org/fr/news/baselworld-2011/romain-gauthier-has-collectors-at-heart-2702/ Magazine de la Haute Horlogerie - Romain Gauthier cultive l’esprit collectionneur] (in French) *[https://www.thenakedwatchmaker.com/people-romain-gauthier-eng]
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