Fam al Hut's Pursuit of Manufacture Status
This report delves into Fam al Hut's ambitious journey towards achieving manufacture status, highlighted by their visit to the brand's workshop in Taicang, China. Despite being a young brand founded in 2024, Fam al Hut has invested significantly in its own facilities, controlling design, prototyping, machining, assembly, and development of its movements, even after winning the GPHG Audacity Prize with its debut MARK 1 Möbius watch.
- Fam al Hut was founded in 2024.
- The MARK 1 Möbius won the Audacity Prize at the GPHG the following year.
- The MARK 1 Möbius case measures 42.2mm by 24.3mm.
- The MARK 1 Möbius case measures approximately 17mm at its thickest point.
Fam al Hut's workshop includes facilities for design, prototyping, machining, assembly, quality control, and a femtosecond laser machine, though cases and sapphire crystals are sourced externally.
The MARK 1 Möbius features a lugless, capsule-shaped case with deep concave sections on the sides to visually reduce its thickness.
The MARK 1 Möbius displays retrograde indications for hours and minutes in the lower half and a bi-axis tourbillon in the upper half, with the movement itself serving as the dial.
The bi-axis tourbillon on the MARK 1 Möbius rotates on two cycles: one of 60 seconds and the other of 90 seconds.
The design philosophy of Fam al Hut prioritizes 'engineering first,' with the mechanism's functionality dictating the subsequent aesthetic design.
Co-founder Lukas Young was inspired to create a Chinese haute horlogerie brand after encountering independent watchmaking at Baselworld 2013.