About us
Gyavius Watch Company (GYVS) is a family-owned, independent watch manufacture based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Founded in 2012 by industrial designer T.Gyavurov when he started exploring his lifelong passion for watchmaking - the timeless composition of craftsmanship, science, engineering and art.
GYVS’s main goal is to create well designed, honest and lasting products. The
company keeps design, development and most manufacturing in-house. Our watches
are produced in small quantities in a small atelier. Most components of each
watch begin as raw stock, which is subjected to countless processes until it
is sculpted into its final shape and assembled. Sawing, turning, milling,
drilling, grinding, brazing, lapping, painting, printing, polishing, etc. Movements are supplied from the best
manufactures in Switzerland, crystals and seals are sourced from European
factories.
Stainless steel comes from SANDVIK in Sweden. Titanium comes from TIMET in USA.
Naturally GYVS is an embodiment of Gyavurov's interests, principles and
imagination. A fully equipped prototyping and manufacturing workshop is
non-negotiable if your aim is at independence. When designing a watch, he
spends most of his time prototyping and exploring new ideas and processes,
something that has become a key part of his design philosophy at GYVS. This
often leads him to design and build new tools and machines to fit this
process. Some examples are a pad printing machine, a sunray machine, a perlage machine, a precise milling machine, a watch lapping machine, a custom water depth rating machine that reaches 2500 meters. It is also about taking time, focusing, and enjoying the work that goes into
every part of the process.
This could mean photographing with a 1960s year old
Hasselblad camera attached to a 24 year old medium-format CCD digital back
that is plugged into a 22 year old G4 POWERBOOK. It might also mean lapping
carbide cutting tools to perfection on a 1960s AGATHON industrial diamond tool
sharpening machine from Switzerland or mixing and pouring gelatin printing
pads to be used for dial printing.
T. Gyavurov is a self-taught watchmaker that holds degrees in Television and Radio Broadcasting Technology, Animation Production
and a Masters degree in Product Design. He started Gyavius Watch Company in
2012 in Manchester, United Kingdom, and later moved to a larger workshop in
Sofia, Bulgaria. He has spent most of his life in and
around Land Rovers and enjoys traveling and photography. Apart from
watchmaking, he now spends his time collecting vintage tools, machines,
cameras and mid-century design products as well as restoring old Landys
for fun.
