It all started when Johan Thelander, Chief of Engineering, responded to an ad for a competition that the Mutewatch team had posted at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology where he was studying. “The competition was about building your own clock or watch and presenting the product to the Mutewatch team.” Johan simply photographed some of the clocks he had built at home and submitted them for judging. Soon after, he joined the team.
At Mutewatch, Johan gets the chance to combine his interest in clocks with his passion for building and creating. Over the past three years, Johan has developed the watch that is now being mass produced in factories in Taipei and Hong Kong. “We started out by building a prototype for the sales team to use, whereupon we developed the real watch as it is today. Nowadays my focus lies on quality checks and improving our production processes”, explains Johan, as he describes his journey with Mutewatch.
Johan’s creativity and keen sense of imagination shines through his work and private life. He speaks about clocks that he has made at home as gifts for family members and describes how he makes good use of the alarm clock- that he invented and built on his own- that feels his body weight and only stops ringing once he gets out of bed. When not building clocks, Stockholm-born Johan enjoys travelling. “I’d love to go back to Thailand and take a couple more diving courses”.