VAPAUS was founded by brothers Oliver and Rudi Laing out of a lifelong love of watches and a desire to create a legacy of magnificent timepieces.
VAPAUS design is inspired by the stunning watches of the 1940-1960s, with their textured yet minimal dials, domed crystals, slim profiles, polished metal and beautifully engineered movements. Our vision is to gently modernise this elegant aesthetic with the latest materials and movements, to create strikingly beautiful wristwatches.
A word from us:
Please feel free to join our mailing list for updates — these are infrequent and informative. We also have a private Facebook group (the VAPAUS Watch Club) — this is a very informal community, where we chat about some of our favourite watches of the past and share some prototype ideas; behind the scenes photographs and inspirations that we take from different art forms.
Thank you for all of your kind, inspiring messages. It has been wonderful to connect with so many passionate watch lovers and start putting the ideas that we have been thinking, dreaming and drawing, into the world.
Oliver & Rudi