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    INTERVIEW: CHRISTIAN KNOOP

    May 01, 2020 3 minutes
    WORDS RICHARD HOLT

    You have really made your mark at IWC, but is it true that you had no background in watch design before joining the company?

    Yes, that’s right. I have been at IWC for around 12 years and it was actually my first job in the watch industry. Before that I worked on pretty much everything apart from watches. I trained as an industrial designer and worked for international agencies designing furniture, consumer electronics, industrial machines, medical devices – I even designed aircraft interiors.

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