Est. for the long run
Objects made properly,
kept for a lifetime.
TWI stands for Totally Worth It. We represent a small family of houses that still build things by hand — winders, safes, dive watches, Geneva watchmaking and Belgian oil-filled dials — and bring them to collectors across the United States.
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Five houses
Scatola del Tempo, ZRC 1904, Edouard Koehn, SwissKubik and Ressence.
Five independent European makers, each the reference in its own discipline: Italian leather-and-wood winders and safes from Florence, the French dive watch that has been issued to navy divers since 1904, a Geneva watchmaking name dating to 1867, the Swiss engineering house that rethought the single-watch winder around a magnetic motor, and the Belgian independent that reinvented the dial by suspending it in oil.
- —Family-owned or independently run — no conglomerates
- —Each brand represented with the highest level of care
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One standard
Hand-finished, serviceable, built to outlast trends.
Everything we carry is assembled by hand, in small series, from materials that age rather than degrade — full-grain leather, solid wood, steel, sapphire. If a part wears out after a decade, it can be replaced instead of discarded. That is the whole test we apply before taking on a product: will it still be worth owning in twenty years?
- —Replaceable parts and documented movements
- —No plastic shortcuts, no disposable electronics
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US based
Local support, warranty and service, no grey market.
We hold stock, warranty and service in the United States, so nothing has to cross an ocean to be looked at. Orders ship domestically, warranties are honoured here, and questions are answered by the same small team that unpacks the crates. Every piece comes from the manufacture itself — never from a grey-market reseller.
- —Domestic shipping and in-house service intake
- —Full manufacturer warranty on every piece