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The Founders
Van Bergen 1795 is led by two people bound to a single conviction: that a 230-year voice deserves to be heard again, and deserves to be carried with absolute precision.
President · Heritage
President · Heritage
Seventh-generation direct descendant of the founding Van Bergen dynasty. The living custodian of 230 years of acoustic heritage, the unbroken human link between the Heiligerlee foundry and the haute horlogerie atelier.
His family's name appears on bells that ring from Dutch village squares to American cathedrals. The Rockefeller connection, the Arlington bells, the royal commissions: to the Baron these are not history. They are family memory.
In carrying that name into watchmaking, the Baron does not merely lend heritage. He continues it.
"We did not build this brand. We inherited the right to carry it forward."
Chief Executive Officer · Vision
Erik is a classically trained percussionist and conductor, educated at the Rotterdam Conservatoire and The Hague Royal Conservatoire, for whom sound is not a feature but a language. That sensibility, rare in any industry and almost unheard of in horology, is precisely what makes him the natural force behind a watch house defined by its acoustic complication.
His career in the luxury watch industry gave him command of both the creative and commercial dimensions of high horology, a rare combination. It is the foundation on which Van Bergen 1795 was built.
Erik designed the Heero Collection: every proportion, every dial variant, every detail. The checkerboard dial, a direct reference to the mathematical grids of the dynasty's founders, emerged from his conviction that every element must carry authentic historical meaning.
"A Van Bergen without sound would be a Van Bergen without soul. Our founders shaped bronze into music; we shape movements into melody."
Chief Executive Officer · Vision
The Calibre VBA01 was developed in close cooperation with one of Switzerland's most distinguished independent movement ateliers, a partnership founded on a shared conviction that a calibre is not merely a mechanism, but a statement.
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