{"id":35552,"date":"2025-10-15T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/?p=35552"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:34:31","slug":"sion-texas-lepopee-suisse-de-la-montre-connectee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/en\/2025\/10\/15\/sion-texas-lepopee-suisse-de-la-montre-connectee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sion, Texas: the Swiss Epic Behind the Smartwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row bottom_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; class=&#8221;zm&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;custom-padding&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;]<div class=\"single_image wpb_content_element align-left   \" data-animation=\"none\" data-delay=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1532\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/banner_green.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"banner_green\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/banner_green.jpg 1532w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/banner_green-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/banner_green-1024x265.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/banner_green-768x199.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1532px) 100vw, 1532px\" \/><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; top_padding=&#8221;20&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;20&#8243; class=&#8221;zx&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;]<style>#breadcrumb-69d63566587d9 li::after { content: \"\u00bb\" }<\/style><div class=\"\"><ol class=\"wwp-vc-breadcrumbs \" id=\"breadcrumb-69d63566587d9\"><li class=\"visited\"><a href=\"\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"current\"><span>Sion, Texas: the Swiss Epic Behind the Smartwatch<\/span><\/li><\/ol><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_color=&#8221;#eeeeee&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;custom-padding&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; el_class=&#8221;zx&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sion, Texas: the Swiss Epic Behind the Smartwatch<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=&#8221;yborder&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0f415e;\">Who realises that the history of the smartwatch also runs through Switzerland? It is an overlooked adventure blending elite sport, engineering, and patent strategy. From Sion to Texas, via laboratories and training grounds, this is the story of how innovations from Switzerland quietly helped fuel the revolution in connected devices a lesson in entrepreneurship balancing technological passion with economic realism.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"594\"><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\">The story begins far from the traditional watchmaking workshops. On a training field, Patrick Flaction observes bodies in motion. A specialist in physical conditioning, he has grown dissatisfied with relying solely on his eye and his stopwatch. He wants data. Certainty. \u201cAt the time, if you really wanted to measure performance, you had to send the athlete to a laboratory. It was slow, expensive, sometimes complicated. So I wanted to bring the laboratory to the training ground.\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\">This ambition would change everything. For behind this quest for precision lies one of the most remarkable Swiss technological adventures of recent years a story of passion, innovation\u2026 and missed opportunities.<\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]<div class=\"single_image wpb_content_element align-left   \" data-animation=\"none\" data-delay=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elitment-Patrick-Flaction-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"elitment-Patrick-Flaction\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elitment-Patrick-Flaction-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elitment-Patrick-Flaction-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elitment-Patrick-Flaction-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elitment-Patrick-Flaction-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elitment-Patrick-Flaction-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elitment-Patrick-Flaction-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elitment-Patrick-Flaction-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/div>[vc_row_inner rtl_reverse=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>When Technology Arrives on the Field<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">To measure better is to train better. Patrick Flaction who notably coached ski champion Lara Gut knows this well: every hundredth of a second matters when you are training the world\u2019s elite. Having data makes it possible to fine-tune effort, prevent injuries, and capture what the eye cannot see.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">His friend, Manu Praz, suggests he approach the School of Engineering in Sion for initial tests. But the real turning point comes with his encounter with Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Koehn and Alain Nicod passionate investors and with Alex Bezinge, an engineer as impulsive as he is talented. Together, they patent a small device worn on the hips, capable of measuring force, speed and power in real time in other words, a truly miniaturised biomechanics laboratory.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">Myotest is born in Sion. Success is immediate. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a rumour spreads through the Olympic Village: more than 30% of the athletes are said to be training with this little Swiss device.<\/h6>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -19px; top: 44.2188px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=&#8221;lborder&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"single_image wpb_content_element align-left   \" data-animation=\"none\" data-delay=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Un-des-premiers-modeles-Myotest.webp\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"Un des premiers mode\u0300les Myotest\" \/><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner rtl_reverse=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>When Technology Arrives on the Field<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">To measure better is to train better. Patrick Flaction who notably coached ski champion Lara Gut knows this well: every hundredth of a second matters when you are training the world\u2019s elite. Having data makes it possible to fine-tune effort, prevent injuries, and capture what the eye cannot see.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">His friend, Manu Praz, suggests he approach the School of Engineering in Sion for initial tests. But the real turning point comes with his encounter with Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Koehn and Alain Nicod passionate investors and with Alex Bezinge, an engineer as impulsive as he is talented. Together, they patent a small device worn on the hips, capable of measuring force, speed and power in real time in other words, a truly miniaturised biomechanics laboratory.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">Myotest is born in Sion. Success is immediate. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a rumour spreads through the Olympic Village: more than 30% of the athletes are said to be training with this little Swiss device.<\/h6>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -19px; top: 44.2188px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=&#8221;lborder&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"single_image wpb_content_element align-left   \" data-animation=\"none\" data-delay=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Un-des-premiers-modeles-Myotest.webp\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"Un des premiers mode\u0300les Myotest\" \/><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=&#8221;yborder&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"single_image wpb_content_element align-left   \" data-animation=\"none\" data-delay=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"547\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slyde-Watch46.png\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"Slyde Watch[46]\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slyde-Watch46.png 547w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slyde-Watch46-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slyde-Watch46-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slyde-Watch46-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Strategic Shift<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">But manufacturing is expensive, and volumes remain modest. By 2016, the company needs fresh momentum. It finds it in the form of Christophe Ramstein, an experienced executive well versed in restructuring. \u201cI\u2019m a transition CEO,\u201d he explains. \u201cI enter a company, review the strategy, raise funds, restructure\u2026 and then move on.\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">For Myotest, the diagnosis is clear: producing hardware is too complex and too costly. Every stage production, distribution, marketing demands considerable resources. The company must capitalise on its true value: its technology.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">\u201cWe packed away the hardware and licensed our solution to the giants,\u201d summarises Christophe Ramstein. The team then develops exceptionally precise biomechanical running-analysis software. In 2019, major industry players parade through the offices in Sion, all saying the same thing: \u201cWe don\u2019t know how you do it, but you are by far the most accurate.\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">Myotest\u2019s software becomes integrated into several of the world\u2019s best-selling smartwatches. Yet the company\u2019s economic balance remains fragile.<\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Slyde Watch: the Horological Dream<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">Meanwhile, another story is taking shape. Renowned Swiss watchmaker Jorg Hysek, accompanied by Pascal Pozzo di Borgo, presents an audacious project to Alain Nicod. They have the idea, the ambition, the designs\u2026 but not the manufacturing capacity.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">Very quickly, Alain Nicod and Alex Bezinge decide to take on the challenge: to create a luxury smartwatch, halfway between jewellery and technological feat. It is exactly the kind of undertaking they love complex, demanding and ambitious.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">Eighteen months of intensive development follow. Prototyping, testing, material selection, electronic optimisation: everything is imagined, reconsidered, refined. The watch is launched in 2011 (four years before the Apple Watch!) and the result exceeds even the most optimistic expectations. Elegant, innovative, desirable, the watch captivates. The first pieces quickly find buyers, even as far as Russia and Ukraine.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">Then tragedy strikes. Alex Bezinge dies suddenly in a microlight accident. With him, a vital part of the project\u2019s energy disappears. \u201cAlex\u2019s death, the lack of resources, and the silence of the Swiss watchmakers when we offered them our expertise\u2026 all of that convinced us to move on,\u201d confides Alain Nicod.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">It is the end of the Slyde Watch. With this project disappears the dream of a smartwatch made in Switzerland..<\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=&#8221;lborder&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"single_image wpb_content_element align-left   \" data-animation=\"none\" data-delay=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02aa9ecca93a2c085c63870b23cdd75f-1378369050.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"02aa9ecca93a2c085c63870b23cdd75f-1378369050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02aa9ecca93a2c085c63870b23cdd75f-1378369050.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02aa9ecca93a2c085c63870b23cdd75f-1378369050-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02aa9ecca93a2c085c63870b23cdd75f-1378369050-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02aa9ecca93a2c085c63870b23cdd75f-1378369050-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02aa9ecca93a2c085c63870b23cdd75f-1378369050-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02aa9ecca93a2c085c63870b23cdd75f-1378369050-1000x563.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=&#8221;yborder&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_raw_html css=&#8221;&#8221;]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[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Heading to Texas<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">The story doesn\u2019t end there. Christophe Ramstein, Alain Nicod and Christophe Saam founder of P&amp;TS and in charge of patent strategy since the very beginning reach the same conclusion: their companies hold a treasure. Myotest and Slyde Watch have developed technologies now integrated into almost all smartwatches worldwide. Their advantage? A solid portfolio of patents that effectively protects these pioneering innovations.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">The next chapter unfolds across the Atlantic. In Texas, a new company is born, with a clear objective: to acquire all the patents, identify the right counterparts, and negotiate directly with the tech giants.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">Today, many smartwatch wearers have on their wrists inventions created in Switzerland at Myotest and Slyde Watch even if mass production happens elsewhere.<\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>The Swiss Lesson<\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">This story also reveals the limitations of a small country which, despite its recognised capacity for innovation, struggles to mobilise the resources needed for large-scale production. Industrialising, delivering worldwide? It requires colossal means and a domestic market which, in Switzerland, simply does not exist.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">\u201cWe too often believe that innovation depends on manufacturing,\u201d says Christophe Saam. \u201cStart-ups dream of factories, of full order books, of finished products shipped to every corner of the world. Sometimes it is more effective to focus on creating intellectual property.\u201d<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #777;\">A valuable lesson for the start-up ecosystem: selling patented technology to players better equipped to manufacture and distribute on a massive scale can prove faster and less risky than producing and marketing directly. In such cases, intellectual property becomes the product.<\/h6>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 655px; top: 457.891px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=&#8221;lborder&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"single_image wpb_content_element align-left   \" data-animation=\"none\" data-delay=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/saam-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"Christophe Saam\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/saam-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/saam-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/saam-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/saam-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/saam-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.patentattorneys.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/saam-1366x2048.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><span class=\"single_image_caption\">Christophe Saam, specialist in patents and intellectual property, Neuch\u00e2tel, 5 November 2021. Photos \u00a9 Guillaume Perret \/ Lundi13<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;\"><em>Christophe Saam \u2014 P&amp;TS, patent strategy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019histoire commence loin des ateliers horlogers. Sur un terrain d\u2019entra\u00eenement, Patrick Flaction observe des corps en mouvement. Sp\u00e9cialiste en pr\u00e9paration physique, cet homme ne se contente plus de son \u0153il et de son chronom\u00e8tre. Il veut des donn\u00e9es. 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