
Raphael Abeillon
Creative Director at indie watch brand ALTO, formerly Senior Watch Designer at Cartier for nearly 12 years.
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Sep 13, 2026
Geneva Watch Days 2026: Raphael Abeillon Of Alto
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3:14Rob NuddsHOST
Is that a development that you had planned out from the very first moment when the brand was still in the concept phase itself? Or is it something that you've gravitated towards as you've received feedback from customers, journalists, industry analysts, and so on and so forth? Or was this always the plan? Well,

Raphael AbeillonGUEST
honestly, for me, it was quite obvious when I joined that we would need that.

Raphael AbeillonGUEST
And it didn't take me too long to convince Thibaut that we should go that direction.

Raphael AbeillonGUEST
It doesn't mean that what was done before was bad, but meaning that it's a normal evolution for a brand or that's how we see it anyway to go from the concept to the following one.

Raphael AbeillonGUEST
once we were convinced and the feedbacks we had also on the zero one where all going the same direction, like, uh, also, uh, about the accessibility, the wearability, the size and everything, because for example, we had a lot of feedbacks from women that loves the atmosphere, the environment that Alto defines that says it's hard to wear because it's quite massive, which is good for a concept because it gives a lot of room for expression.
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11:44Rob NuddsHOST
own hosted events for example what's the plan for communication well the idea is to do every everything we can