A young man, Remo Bertolucci, coming from the region of Pisa and qualified engineer in micro-mechanics, grows up in maritime Tuscan. Mediterranean influences naturally surfaced and sharpened his creativity. A young Swiss woman spends her holidays on the Italian Riviera with her parents. They meet, the thunderbolt is immediate. In 1965, she convinces the young Remo to follow her to Switzerland. The couple will decide to join the family watch business founded since 1911 and located in region of Bienne. It is at this period a very famous workshop in the assembly of mechanical watches. Consequently, Remo becomes passionate by the watch-making world.

Its inventiveness will not be long to exacerbate him. Since 1973, he develops an activity in Private Label. Several years of experiences, of projects of completes watches developments, will make the Italian lifestyle and the Swiss watch-making meet and will give birth to a brand.
In 1987, Remo decides to create his own company; the House BERTOLUCCI S.A. is founded in Neuchâtel.

Remo draws inspiration from the pebbled beaches of his childhood to design his first creations, the Pulchra collection, followed by the Vir in 1994 featuring a bracelet evoking these organic shapes. BERTOLUCCI enters the world of high-end luxury watches and surfs the wave of success. Unfortunately, the brand creator has a terrible accident in 1999 that forced him out and then forced the family to sell the company. It lost ground for several years and is rescued in late 2005 by the Dickson Group. With considerable experience in the field, the Group gives Bertolucci the means to create, develop and establish itself back in the luxury world of watches.

 

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It all begins with a Mediterranean love story.

Remo Bertolucci, a handsome Italian from Tuscany, falls in love with a beautiful Swiss woman on holidays in Forte dei Marmi. When Remo moves to Switzerland to join his wife and in-laws watchmaker business, the first key foundation of the company is set.

When creating BERTOLUCCI S.A., instantly, Remo Bertolucci anchors the brand in the marvellous world of the Mediterranean.

Remo designs his first collection after the pebbles he used to play with on the beaches of his youth and position directly the Brand in the wonders of the Italian Riviera. Bertolucci is now synonymous for this enchanting territory. Confluence of civilisations, source of extraordinary tales, emblematic and evocative places, the Bertolucci world naturally suggests the pleasure and the joy of living from a timeless Riviera that fills us up with dreams.

Mediterranean influences surface and sharpen the creative edge of BERTOLUCCI.

The strength of the brand also resides in the union of two cultures. It is a unique specificity and a Bertolucci signature to be able to marry the Creativity and Inspiration from Italy to the Savoir-faire and Rigour from Switzerland. The Swiss savoir-faire is undisputed and when it comes to watches, the search for excellence and ultimate quality is a never ending quest. When Remo Bertolucci joins Switzerland, his in-laws watchmakers' for several generations open up the young man to a new spirit of Quality and Technology, always seeking for perfection.

Bertolucci's Mediterranean is about sensual curves of organic shapes with precious and refined elegance, enhanced by the Swiss quality.

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