Industrial Design
Form in Service of Precision
At CH Precision, industrial design is not a decorative exercise but an extension of engineering discipline. Our visual language reflects distinctly Swiss sensibilities: clarity without excess, restraint without coldness, and precision expressed through proportion, material, and surface. These instruments are conceived not only to perform, but to be seen, touched, engaged, and inhabited—their mass, tactile response, and interfaces calibrated to feel inevitable rather than expressive. Function guides form at every level, allowing complex engineering to present itself with calm authority and intuitive use. To realize this philosophy, we collaborate with designers who share our commitment to purpose, coherence, and disciplined simplicity.
iSHONi Design
Manuela Federica Krebser founded iSHONi Design in 1996 and has built an international reputation spanning product design, branding and creative direction across commercial, cultural and industrial contexts. Her work moves fluidly between the museum and the marketplace, uniting sculptural restraint, intuition and harmony with functional clarity and purpose: a duality that characterizes her design language and has been praised repeatedly in international magazines. She trained with Ted Scapa and graduated from the Bern University of Arts.
Living and working in New York from 2008 to 2012 she was commissioned to design the enclosure and visual identity of the first CH Precision product line in 2009. The resulting 1 Series, launched in 2012, established the brand’s foundational aesthetic: disciplined proportions, material honesty, and an interface language defined by legibility and tactile intelligence. Her design translated engineering rigor into a calm, immediately readable form-object meant not to impress at a distance, but to reveal its intent through use.
The 1 Series remains a defining expression of CH Precision’s design philosophy: clarity without ornament, elegance without gesture, and precision made physical.
Design Languages by Product Family
This timeline reflects the evolution of CH Precision’s industrial design language over time, and the deliberate assignment of designers to distinct product families. From the inception of the 1 Series to the emergence of the 10 Series reference components, each generation was shaped in close collaboration with designers whose sensibilities aligned with the technical and architectural ambitions of the instruments themselves.
Rather than enforcing a single, uniform visual identity, CH Precision has articulated distinct design languages for different product families. The 1 Series and 10 Series are not steps in a stylistic progression, but parallel expressions shaped by differing technical scope, physical scale, and system intent. What unites them is not visual repetition, but a shared commitment to clarity, proportional discipline, and tactile intelligence—allowing each series to express its purpose with precision and composure.
Momentum Design
Sven Adolph is the founder and director of Momentum Design, an industrial design practice based in Zurich focused on technically complex products and long-term design systems. His work is shaped by extensive international experience at leading design consultancies in Boston, San Francisco, Milan, and Vienna, prior to founding Momentum in 2001. A Fulbright Scholar, he holds a Master of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and completed his diploma at the University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd.
Adolph’s approach to design views objects as carriers of information—formed by prior use and charged with future potential. He understands products as active co-creators of experience, gaining meaning through physical presence, emotional resonance, and sustained engagement. His work has received international recognition and has been exhibited and included in prominent design collections, including the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich.
For CH Precision, Adolph designed the 10 Series, giving physical form to the company’s most ambitious engineering efforts. The resulting design language is architectural in scale and deliberate in presence, emphasizing structural clarity, hierarchy, and tactile authority.
