Sidereus watches were designed and developed in-house by our co-founder Bryan Leech, a product designer with almost forty years’ experience designing products for both indigenous and multinational companies in Ireland and overseas in the Far East, Africa, the Caribbean and Southern America.
The watch designs were originally conceived as a one-off showpieces for ‘Timelines’, a retrospective exhibition of designs by the Sidereus co-founders for ID2015, Year of Irish Design. Content with having designed, prototyped and assembled three working watches that, perhaps, should have been where this story ended. However, a passing comment from our friend Giles Ellis, watch designer and founder of the Schofield Watch Company, became the catalyst for progressing and refining the watch designs for production. The rest is history.