Steven Grotell
Steven Grotell is founder and principal of SM Grotell Design, an international design consultancy. He graduated with degrees in architecture and industrial design from the Pratt Institute and studied jewelry design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. For over three decades he has designed timepieces and fine jewelry for esteemed brands and global retailers, including David Yurman, Giorgio Armani, and a major collaboration with Tiffany & Co. He has also issued his own signature collection of high jewelry timepieces for women.
Somewhere above the shores of Lac de Neuchâtel, high in the Jura Mountains, a team of master watchmakers are perched at their benches, fabricating, finishing, and assembling watch components, some no larger than a fraction of a millimeter. The rarest and most intricate of these engineering feats, often referred to as “Grand Complications,” can contain upwards of one thousand components and have been known to take years to complete.
