But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

I have to confess that I'm in a constant state of evolution in terms of the way I feel about it. When I was doing early pieces, I wasn't exactly in love with the idea of building the stuff. I could do it because I had the skills, but I really did it because I couldn't find anyone else to build it for me.

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch