Haute Horlogerie Dominique Renaud (HHDR) is an independent Swiss watchmaking house founded in 2026, based in Tolochenaz within Switzerland's watchmaking arc. The organisation was built around a single guiding conviction — attributed to computer science pioneer Alan Kay: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." It is an ethos that defines everything HHDR does: from the way it is structured, to the watches it creates.

HHDR operates as both a factory of ideas and a factory of objects. Its team of approximately twenty professionals — horologists, designers, engineers and specialists from complementary disciplines — works as a collective, combining research, transdisciplinary expertise and integrated manufacturing to explore new forms of contemporary horology while remaining anchored in Swiss mechanical tradition. The organisation describes itself as an incubator where vision takes collective form.

The brand pursues what it calls rupture-oriented watchmaking: a deliberate rejection of incremental refinement in favour of creations that challenge the fundamental assumptions of mechanism design, time display, and aesthetic language. Each piece manifests a new horological reasoning — forms that are evident and immediate, housing mechanics that have been rethought from their foundations.

The brand presented its debut creations at the Time To Watches salon in Geneva, April 14–19, 2026. A parallel creative project, Renaud Tixier — born from a dialogue between Dominique Renaud and Julien Tixier — was launched in 2024, exploring what the brand describes as innovation born from the dialogue between generations, between intuition and rigor.