Every option was either too large, too cheap, too expensive, or too masculine.

I spent months in boutiques and browsing collections, only to find the same pattern repeating. Oversized faces that swallowed my wrist. Pieces that looked refined online but felt like toys in hand. Exquisite designs with price tags that demanded I choose between rent and beauty. Or watches so clearly designed for broader frames that wearing them felt like borrowing from someone else's wardrobe.

I realized the watch industry had been designed by men, for men. Even the pieces marketed to women felt like afterthoughts.

Where were the watches for women who understand that elegance is a way of being? For those of us who curate every detail of how we present ourselves—who layer delicate jewelry with intention, who know that true sophistication whispers rather than shouts? We don't want accessories that merely fill space on our wrists. We want pieces that complete us. That flow with our rings, our bracelets, our entire sense of self.

We want watches that understand us.

If such watches were to exist in one place, I would need to curate them myself.

Sixty Atelier is my answer to an industry that has long overlooked us. It exists for the woman refining her taste, claiming her place, becoming. For those transitioning from who they were to who they're meant to be. For women who view how they present themselves not as vanity, but as an extension of their ambition, their standards, their self-respect.

This is my offering to you. To us.

— Thuy An

PS: this is the watch that started it all