Anna Macchieri Rossi developed her ideas about jewellery while mastering the art of watch design. She worked for over 15 years with leading luxury watch brands, including Bulgari, Cartier and Jaeger LeCoultre, learning all aspects of the field.
Anna lived for a long time in Le Sentier, a village in the Vallée de Joux, where, as she says, there were only “watches and snow”.
From an interview with Anna Macchieri Rossi:
I had the idea of transferring the world of watches and their mobility to jewellery for a long time, I couldn’t stop thinking about it – it was a powerful creative impulse. I always wanted to create jewellery inspired by the theme of time. It’s a kind of connection between memory and imagination: through memory we connect with our roots and traditions, and imagination can inspire us and transport us to the future. Memory is our foundation, and imagination is our dreams.
The whole process as a whole, because it’s a real journey – at each stage there are joys and difficulties. An idea or “insight” can come to me at any time of the day or night, and I urgently need to record it, no matter what is at hand – a train ticket, a napkin in a restaurant, sand on the beach.