After a successful career in IT Quality Management, I chose to pursue my true calling: watchmaking. Drawn by the depth, precision, and artistry of the craft, I made the deliberate decision to dedicate myself entirely to horology, leaving behind my previous profession to focus on creating timepieces of lasting significance. Over the past years, my focus has been devoted to the creation of entirely inhouse movements and complications, each conceived, developed, and executed according to my own vision of horology.
Tourbillon Solstitium (2026) souscription now open
The Tourbillon Solstitium represents the essence of independent haute horlogerie. Designed, engineered and handcrafted entirely in-house by Machiel Hulsman, this exceptional timepiece combines a one-minute tourbillon with retrograde minutes, jumping hours and a unique hidden power reserve indicator integrated into the dial logo.
Every component, from the movement and escapement to the case and hands, is created from raw materials using traditional watchmaking techniques and manually operated machinery. The Tourbillon Solstitium is produced in an exclusive series of only twelve pieces, with each watch offering extensive possibilities for personalisation, including dial colours, movement finishing and a bespoke tourbillon bridge design. A contemporary interpretation of classical watchmaking, created to become a true heirloom for future generations.
Specifications
- Fully in-house designed and manufactured mechanical movement
- One-minute tourbillon
- Hidden power reserve indicator integrated into the dial logo
- Retrograde minutes
- Jumping hours
- Bidirectional setting system for both jumping hours and retrograde minutes
- Hand-finished case with open lugs
- Available in white gold, yellow gold, rose gold or platinum
- Sapphire crystal front and back
- Bespoke lower tourbillon bridge design
- Choice of movement finishing and plating
- Extensive customisation possibilities for colours and decoration
- Limited to 12 subscription pieces
- Entirely handcrafted and assembled in the Hulsman Timepieces atelier
- Availability 12 souscription pieces, 1 piece for charity
- Price €138,000, subscribe now.
Easy Perpetual (2025) souscription now open
The Hulsman Easy Perpetual is Machiel Hulsman’s inventive take on one of watchmaking’s most demanding complications: the perpetual calendar. Designed as a foolproof system operated entirely through the crown, it keeps all calendar functions synchronised and allows bi-directional setting without risk.
Housed in a compact 39mm gold case, the Easy Perpetual displays its calendar information in an unexpected way: two sapphire prisms, integrated into the caseband, refract the month and weekday discs to the outside of the watch. On the dial, a jumping crescent-shaped date hand, a day/night indicator, and a low-power reserve aperture keep the design clean and intuitive, while the floating balance—suspended beneath a sapphire bridge—forms the visual centrepiece.
The hand-wound movement offers 90 hours of power reserve and incorporates multiple safety mechanisms, including a reinforced crown stem and a locking system that prevents exiting the setting mode when the date is incorrect.
- Case Dimensions 39mm (D) x 9.5mm (T)
- Case Material White, yellow, or rose gold
- Water Resistance 30 metres
- Crystal(s) Sapphire front and back, sapphire prisms in caseband
- Dial Sapphire crystal, meteorite, stone or guilloché options
- Strap Alligator leather, case-matching pin buckle
- Movement In-house development, manual winding
- Power Reserve 90 hours
- Functions: Hours, minutes, pointer date, weekday, month, day/night, low power reserve indicator
- Availability 12 souscription pieces, 1 piece for charity
- Price €138,000, subscribe now.
Marie-Elise (2019) Time only
Meet the first entirely handmade Dutch wristwatch;
Rose gold case with open lugs and a silver guilloche dial with heat blued steel hands and indices. The manual wound mechanical movement has been designed, calculated and manufactured from scratch.
The movement features hand cut and polished rubies in the barrel as well as many other hand cut rubies like the pallets and impulse jewel, 20 jewels in total.
Inside the movement there is a triangle shaped pallet fork made from hardened steel, an innovation that is lighter than a regular pallet fork and is more efficient. The movement offers a power reserve of 46 hours. The 3/4 platine with blued screws and gold chatons shows the black polished balance bridge.
Côtes de Genève, perlage, anglage, black polish, etc. have all been executed to the highest standards.
Timepiece Marie-Elise in images:
Solstitium (2021) Tourbillon
This double barrel tourbillon is made for a Dutch customer and meanwhile friend. It has a yin-yang kind of feel to the dial and an ancient solar sign, fused into the tourbillon bridge at the back of the movement.
This tourbillon is a modest 39 mm wide and only 9 mm in total thickness: Extremely thin for a tourbillon, let alone for a retrograde minute and jumping hours watch. The tourbillon has a silver dial with baguette diamond indices.
The timepiece features a spring driven escape wheel (for direct impulse to pallets and shock absorbance of the big tourbillon cage), my own invention.
The manual wound mechanical movement has 75 hours of power reserve and has been designed, calculated and manufactured from scratch. The free sprung Beryllium copper balance with three gold balance weights beats at 28.800 Bph .
Côtes de Genève, perlage, anglage, black polish, etc. have all been executed to the highest standards.
Solstitium tourbillon in images:
