Welcome to episode 4 of #humanfriday. Today we present our designer Maik Panziera. Happy weekend, watch lovers! “How other people would describe me? I have no idea. Cut your hair and get a real job, maybe!?” Maik Panziera laughs as he looks up from the near century-old guilloché machine in Chronoswiss Lucerne atelier. This goateed gentleman is not a watchmaker. But after almost four decades as a jeweller, dial maker and watch designer Maik sure knows how to design one from scratch. “In the next step a constructor translates my drawings into a functional watch, normally with no larger changes than 0.02 millimetres,” he says. Fascinated by the watch industry’s combination of CNC and handmade, Maik joined Chronoswiss in 2012, thus propelling the brand into its modern mechanical era of three-dimensional designs combined with handmade guilloché and enamelling. Most of the time Maik himself makes the enamel and guilloché dials – that on flying regulators are not really dials but mainp...