A Story in Three Generations
Every tree has its own story. Now, it continues on your wrist.
The artist
In the 1950s and 60s, my grandmother worked as a teacher and artist, developing her own original designs — many of them built on traditional Turkic motifs and symbols. This tulip is one of hers, every petal labeled by hand with the color it should be: a lesson sheet for the students she also taught to carry her eye for pattern into their own work.
The carpenter
On the other side of that same household was my grandfather, a carpenter by trade. Long before marquetry entered the family, he was the one actually working the wood — and it's directly from him that my father learned woodworking, piece by piece, at his side.
Where both crafts met
My father grew up with both influences under one roof: his mother's eye for pattern and his father's hands for wood. He learned woodworking directly from my grandfather, and carried forward my grandmother's design sensibility — including many of the same Turkic motifs and symbols she worked into her own drawings.
Since the early 2000s, he's run his own small atelier, focused almost entirely on marquetry.
And where it all meets a wrist
I grew up around both worlds — restoration and watchmaking on one side, my family's marquetry on the other. NALÇACI Originals is where they finally meet: a small piece of art, cut and inlaid by hand, that doesn't hang on a wall or sit in a box — it stays on your wrist, all day, every day.
A wreath my grandmother drew decades before either of us were born — the same circular form that now sits, inlaid in wood, on every NALÇACI box.
"A small piece of art, always with you. Every tree has its own story — and now, it continues in your watch."
