Gaël Petermann and Florian Bédat first met at the watchmaking school of Geneva in 2007 where they studied until 2011. After 2 and a half years working in Harry Winston, Florian Bédat joined Gaël at A. Lange & Söhne in Glasshütte.In 2014 Gaël came back to Switzerland where he started to restore vintage watches. 2 years later, Florian decided to join Gaël and they opened a workshop in Renens, followed by the launch of Petermann Bédat Sàrl in 2017. Developing their first in-house watch from scratch in 2019 the Reference 1967 was born.