Linde Werdelin
Swiss-Danish watchmaker
Linde Werdelin is a luxury Swiss-Danish watchmaker founded in 2002 by Morten Linde and Jorn Werdelin. They specialize in crafting limited and numbered series of watches and instruments. Linde Werdelin watches are made in Switzerland by Danish designers. By combining analog and digital technologies, Linde Werdelin produces and manufactures mechanical watches along with instruments for skiing and diving that can be clipped onto the top of the watch. Linde Werdelin creates limited and numbered editions of up to 100 pieces.
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Linde Werdelin is a watch and instrument company founded by two Danes, Morten Linde and Jorn Werdelin. The idea was born out of a skiing accident when, in 1996, Jorn Werdelin, a keen mountaineer and off-piste skier, was taken by surprise in a bout of bad weather, got lost, skied off a cliff, and broke his back.
In 2002, he partnered with Morten Linde around the idea of a high-end sports watch that could, when required, be combined with a digital instrument to provide information for skiing or diving.
The ‘watch-plus-instrument’ idea took five years of research and development before the first Linde Werdelin watch collection went to market in 2006. Linde Werdelin is the only high-end watch company producing digital instruments for skiing and diving.
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