Carl Suchy & Söhne

In 2016, Robert Punkenhofer, an authoritative figure in the worlds of art, design and architecture and a former Austrian Trade Commissioner, revived this then dormant brand with the help of Michael’s long-time friend from watchmaker school, independent watchmaker Marc Jenni.

Carl Suchy & Söhnn was a family buisiness founded by its namesake in 1822. It quickly becoming the sole watch supplier to the Habsburg Monarchy or the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, counting among its patrons Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Sisi. Another well-known patron before the business went bankcrupt in the 1960s was the founder of pyscho-analysis, Sigmund Freud, for whom the brand produced a custom-made pocket featuring a unique mechanism that allowed him to time his psychoanalytic sessions with his patients. This piece can still be seen at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Today, Carl Suchy & Söhnn takes pride in handcrafting timepieces in Austria that meet the high quality standards of Swiss watchmaking, with the brand’s watches sporting ultra-thin automatioc movements from Switzerland whilst expressing the minimalist elegance of the Viennese waltz.