Assembled by hand
Every movement is built and regulated by one watchmaker at one bench. The tiny finishing marks under a loupe aren't flaws — they're the record of a person, not a robot arm.
About Halden & Co.
A workshop that keeps time
We started at a single watchmaker's bench with a loupe, a set of tweezers, and a conviction that a watch should be built to be repaired, not replaced.
Our story
Halden & Co. traces back to a small repair workshop opened in Jongno in 1968, where the founder mended pocket watches and railway clocks by lamplight. Three generations later we still work from the same neighbourhood, but now we build the movements ourselves rather than only fixing other people's.
Everything we make is mechanical. Our calibres are developed and assembled in-house, timed across five positions, and cased only after a week on the wrist. We use surgical steel and grade-5 titanium, box-domed sapphire, and hand-finished dials — and we design every watch so that, decades from now, a watchmaker can open it, clean it, and set it running again. A watch you can't service is a watch you'll one day throw away.
We believe in owning fewer, better machines. One watch you wind each morning and hand down in the end is worth more than a drawer of dead batteries. That is the quiet idea behind the workshop, and it is the invitation we extend to you: choose one honest timepiece, and let it outlast the decade you bought it in.
What we stand for
Three things we won't compromise on
Built to be serviced
A mechanical watch should be cleaned and re-oiled, never discarded. We service every watch we've made for its whole life, so a single timepiece can run for generations, not seasons.
Made to be handed down
Solid cases, replaceable parts, and a movement you can see through the caseback. We build for the second wrist and the third — the watch that ends up meaning something.
See what we've built
Browse the collection, or visit the boutique in Jongno to try a timepiece on the wrist and meet the watchmakers behind it.