Vianney Halter

Antiqua perpetual calendar Shown at Basel in 1998, the Antiqua looked like nothing else at the fair: a perpetual calendar read through riveted portholes said to have been inspired by Captain Nemo's submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Halter calls his style Futur Antérieur, a future imagined from the past, and that playful science-fiction streak anticipates what Urwerk and MB&F would later make famous. Before going it alone he worked alongside François-Paul Journe and Denis Flageollet, so the Antiqua is also a good way into the family tree of the modern independent scene.