Skagen

Skagen was founded in 1989 by Henrik and Charlotte Jorst, a Danish couple who had moved to New York and began importing watches designed in the Danish manner. The name is that of the town at the northern tip of Jutland where the North Sea and the Baltic meet, a place associated with a nineteenth-century painters' colony and with a particular quality of light.

The design follows Danish functionalism fairly strictly: thin cases, mesh bracelets, dials with as little on them as the function allows, and no ornament that is not doing something. The company was bought by the Fossil Group in 2012 and continues under the same design direction.

1989

Founded by Henrik and Charlotte Jorst

2012

Acquired by the Fossil Group