luxury watch inspired by Deep Space

       The 50-year-old French, with bright blue eyes and a thick accent like a plate of foie gras, is reliving the story of the creation of the first new shows in six years: Deep Space tourbillon.

During a career spanning more than 30 years, Mr. Holder rarely took vacations and often slept three hours a night. By 2010, his life was paperwork and visiting clients, with little time to shop. He was nervous and restless, often forget what he had done and that he had spoken.

In November 2010, a survival mechanism resulted in long kicked in. He to 15 hours of sleep per night began. In January 2011, they put out 17 of its 20 employees. Bereft of ideas and energy, he thought his days were on the clock. (The last original show he created in January 2007 was classic.) It is often remained at home, listen to music and read the classics of science fiction, he had devoured as a teenager.

The owner of a DVD shop in Lausanne told him about the "Star Trek" spin-off "Deep Space Nine" that Mr. Holder and bought "as a drug addict," looked at 180 episodes. He saw again the original series "Star Trek". "I [would] dream of" Star Trek "and" Deep Space Nine "because I went to sleep right after watching an episode."

He was often the same dream he'd encounter beings from another universe and explain how it was the planet earth, a place of four dimensions: length, width, depth and time. His new friends, but do not understand, then in the dream he was having a device to illustrate the dimensions of the earth. The aliens would be satisfied, but Mr. Holder, he could not see the device. "The more I think the more I see of this thing," he said. "Finally, I understand there is a clock is."

In November 2011, Mr. Holder was hard at work on Deep Space tourbillon. As shown progressed, he slept 12 hours a night but still science fiction and observed read "Deep Space Nine." "I [had] lost contact with my inspirations in science fiction and hurt my imagination," he said. "I also understand that I need to sleep because the dream is important for my mind."

As a director, hiring a cameraman, a designer, Mr. Holder, 37, Swiss Senggen Jeremie says. "For holders mechanical universe nothing he knows contains my job is to translate the experience holder shows he imagined drawings was."

Vianney Halter is 100 deep space Tourbillon retails for around 180,000 Swiss francs ($ 145,000) to produce, according to the metal housing.