While running her own business creating watch casings, Angélique Chappuis is also involved in teaching future watch designers in La Chaux-de-Fonds. And is developing watchmaking culture courses.
Albert-J. de Buttes-LaCôte / JSH 1876 (News Agency)
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If you don’t dress it up, a movement is just a machine that runs regularly»
That’s what Angélique Chappuis tells JSH. This professional watch dressing specialist has more than 29 years’ experience working for the brands.
Transmission: watch decoration and… training
In 2018, as well as her own company founded in 2016, Angélique Chappuis was hired by the École d’arts appliqués de La Chaux-de-Fonds, the famous school that became the Pôle arts appliqués CPNE (Centre de formation professionnelle neuchâtelois) in the year of its 150th anniversary. There, she teaches ‘Professional Knowledge’ courses for future watch designers.
During the forced break imposed by the global pandemic, she strengthened her presence on social networks and discovered with interest the ‘Aliança dos relojoeiros do Brasil’, a group of watchmakers that opened doors for her in Brazil, her native country. In both Zoom and Brazilian, she developed and tested Swiss made training sessions, which proved a great success.
Watchmaking knowledge, passion beyond borders
When she spontaneously shares her passion with others, Angélique Chappuis often detects an almost universal need for watchmaking knowledge. Drawing on her teaching experience, she developed ‘watch culture’ lessons aimed at collectors and companies alike. These are tailor-made courses, for example, for companies in the watch and jewellery sector that are welcoming and training new employees.
The entire course I have developed for Brazilians last 32 hours and is divided into two levels, beginner and advanced”
“Together, we study the mechanical movement, how it works, its complications and its history,’ she says. ‘But my favourite lesson is the one on the various ‘watch certifications’.’
