Weiss Watch Company
Founded by master watchmaker Cameron Weiss with his wife Whitney in 2013 — the first ten timepieces each requiring over 300 hours of work, hand-finished and assembled in their dining room. Cameron's passion started at age 5 with his first attempted watch repair; for his high school graduation he asked not for a car but for watchmaking tools and books.
After studying business at USC, he completed an intensive two-year apprenticeship in traditional watchmaking and went on to train at Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin in both the US and Switzerland. The company grew from a dining table to an apartment workshop to a state-of-the-art dedicated facility, then relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2020. In 2024, Weiss opened its Nashville studio and boutique — part working atelier, part intimate showroom, where collectors can visit by private appointment and witness the craft firsthand. Mission: restoring prestige to American watchmaking. Every Weiss timepiece is designed, finished, and assembled by hand in Nashville with Swiss-trained American watchmakers. Notable models include the American Issue (with a workshop-made movement), the Ultralight (aluminium movement), the bespoke Executive Issue (American-sourced gold), the Dive Watch, and a 38mm and 42mm Automatic Standard Issue Field Watch with matching date wheel and BGW9 Super-LumiNova. Limited-edition collaborations with Allen Edmonds, Birdwell, and Tanner Goods have celebrated American craft. A handwritten note from Cameron accompanies every watch.
Cameron's formal training ran through WOSTEP at the Nicolas G. Hayek Watchmaking School in Florida before his stints at Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin, giving him Swiss-certified fluency he then turned toward building something distinctly American. That ambition reached a milestone in 2019 with the in-house Weiss Calibre 1003 — a genuinely US-made movement re-engineered from a pocket-watch architecture and single-handedly manufactured by Cameron himself, with only the jewels and springs sourced outside the workshop. The more accessible end of the catalogue runs on the Weiss Calibre 2130, a 2892A2-based automatic still finished, assembled, and regulated entirely by hand in Nashville, fitted with a screw-down crown, custom date wheel, and Incabloc shock protection inside a lightweight case rated to 300 feet. Every watch continues to ship with a handwritten note from Cameron, and the 2024 Nashville studio and boutique now lets collectors watch that process firsthand — part working atelier, part showroom, exactly as Cameron and Whitney envisioned when the company outgrew their dining room table. More than a decade after choosing Los Angeles, and later Nashville, over an obvious Swiss career path, Weiss Watch Company remains fully independently owned and led by the same watchmaker who started it — living proof that American mechanical watchmaking, once nearly extinct, has a genuine second act.