Time and Tide Watches

Australian Watch Authority

  • Home
  • Shop
  • Reviews
  • Watch Fairs
    • Baselworld 2019
    • SIHH 2019
    • Baselworld 2018
    • SIHH 2018
    • Baselworld 2017
    • SIHH 2017
  • Club
  • Partners

22.04.2018
Andy Green

WHO TO FOLLOW: @EnriqueMuyshondt

Enrique Muyshondt is the founder of Muyshondt Enterprises, a company that creates electric torches. He loves simple, vintage, analog things — cars, vinyl, cameras, and, of course, watches.

Hi Enrique, tell me about your love affair with watches; do you remember when it started?
I had a Timex with Indiglo when I was a kid, which would never come off my wrist — I’m a post-quartz-crisis guy. Over time I had more modern fare, Citizen Eco-Drive watches in particular, and eventually made my way to mechanical watches a few years ago, starting with a Seiko Sumo, and then it all went downhill from there! There’s a particular appeal for me in clean, elegant design that’s prevalent in many modern watch brands, and a specific fascination with a form of engineering taken to its furthest possible form in watches, F1 racing, and a few other fields.

What is your daily watch, and why?
It varies. Lately, a Mitsukoshi (Panda) Speedmaster, but the polar-dialled Rolex Explorer II, Omega Seamaster 300 (vintage re-issue) and others are also favourites from the larger brands. I’m a particular fan of the work from Halios and Oak & Oscar, in microbrands, as well.

What does your collection look like today?
It’s a mix of large and small. There’s much to like in the level of refinement that Rolex or Omega have achieved in their modern timepieces, be it from a finishing perspective, the movements, or bracelets. I still have the Sumo that opened up the world of mechanical watches to me, as well as a few other Seiko pieces, Stowa, Oak & Oscar, Halios, Archimede by Ickler, Tudor, and a few others. What I look for in a watch is design quality — clean and unique interpretations of a concept.

Tell us about your company, Muyshondt.
I started Muyshondt in 2006 to make electric torches. I built my first torch when I was five years old out of a yogurt tube, a bulb, battery, wires, and a switch made from two paper fasteners and a paperclip. The reflector was made from aluminium foil glued onto construction paper, and the lens was a taped-on cut-out from a grocery store pastry package. Things have come a long way since then.

Since 2006, the focus of the company has been to create products of very high quality that are a blend of design and performance that have long-term utility. We make products that we want to use ourselves, and solve particular issues in a unique way unlike any other.

What is your number one goal with Muyshondt, and what does the future look like?
Quality products, built for doing things. I think we’re all guilty of spending a bit too much time connected, and the products we’re working on are intended to encourage and allow people to spend more time seeing the world properly for themselves. You’ll start to see some of this from our own part on Instagram once we finish restoring the Land Rover Defender we’ve been working on since June 2017.

Like electric torches, watches are a crucial part of the EDC lifestyle. What does your EDC look like?
It depends on the day! But broadly speaking I’ll usually have on either an Explorer II or Speedmaster, a pair of Persols of some type and my Masunaga glasses, a Fat Herbie Wallet made from glazed kangaroo leather, always a Maus Electric Torch, and alternately a Beagle or Aeon. Not infrequently these days I’ll also have a Canon AE-1 or Leica M4 with me to get a few photos on film.

What do you think the perfect adventurer’s watch is? Does it exist?
Some would probably argue a modern G-Shock would get you through anything, and they wouldn’t be wrong. I’m fond of analog GMT and Chronometer movements, however. The most significant adventure humanity has had to date are the moon landings, so, naturally, the Speedmaster gets a lot of recognition there, and if I had to cut it all down to “just one” for any adventure, that would probably be it.

Is there a timepiece you are lusting after at the moment?
No question, Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris Date. JLC hit an absolute home run with that one!

Tweet
Share
Share
Pin
Email
79 Shares

BECOME A SUBSCRIBER

Don't miss any of the action! Join the community to get access to our weekly news round-up, behind the scenes stories, and entrance into exclusive competitions.


SIGN UP NOW
BRANDS
A
A. Lange & Sohne
Aegir Instruments
Akrivia
Alpina
Angelus
Apple
Aquadive
Archimede
Audemars Piguet
Australian Brands
Autodromo
B
Ball Watch Co
Bamford Watch Department
Baume et Mercier
Bausele
Bell & Ross
Blancpain
Breguet
Breitling
Bremont
Briston
Bulgari
Bulova
C
Cartier
Casio
Chanel
Chopard
Christopher Ward
Corum
Creux Automatiq
CT Scuderia
Cvstos
D
Dan Henry
Dior
Doxa
E
Edox
Erroyl
Eterna
F
Farer
Filson
Franck Muller
Frederique Constant
G
Gavox
Girard-Perregaux
Glashütte Original
Glycine
Gorilla
Grand Seiko
Gucci
H
H. Moser & Cie.
Haigh & Hastings
Halios
Hermes
Hublot
HYT
I
Ianos
IWC
J
Jaeger-LeCoultre
Jaquet Droz
K
Kurono
L
Linde Werdelin
Longines
Louis Vuitton
Luminox
M
Martenero
Maurice Lacroix
MB&F - Maximilian Büsser & Friends
Melbourne Watch Company
Mido
Ming
Monta
Montblanc
N
Nodus
Nomos
O
Oak & Oscar
Omega
Oris
P
Panerai
Parmigiani Fleurier
Patek Philippe
Perrelet
Piaget
R
Rado
Ralph Lauren
Raymond Weil
Ressence
Richard Mille
Roger Dubuis
Rolex
S
Seals
Seiko
Sevenfriday
Sinn
Spinnaker
Stowa
Swatch
T
TAG Heuer
Tangramatic
Tiffany & Co
Tissot
Tudor
U
Ulysse Nardin
Undone
Unimatic
Urwerk
V
Vacheron Constantin
Van Cleef & Arpels
Victorinox
Z
Zenith
Zodiac
  • Company
  • The Team
  • Contact
  • Latest
  • Archive
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Refund and Exchange Policy
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

The original content on Time and Tide Watches is copyright protected. Please email us before re-posting our content elsewhere. When sharing our images on Pinterest or Instagram please use the credit ‘via Time+Tide' THANK  YOU

TIME+TIDE | MELBOURNE | AUSTRALIA | INFO@TIMEANDTIDEWATCHES.COM

© COPYRIGHT 2019 TIME+TIDE

  • Home
  • Shop
  • Subscribe Now!
  • Reviews
  • Video
  • Club
  • Partners
This site uses cookies as outlined in our cookie policy. Find out more.