DonCorson[AHCI]
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reflection of the watch maker
Jul 31, 2007,12:35 PM
The pleasure of choosing a watch includes the choosing of the watchmaker.
As you get to know or learn about the independent watchmakers you can see their personalities in their products.
The people are as different as their watches.
I think that the amount of "in-house-ness" of production is not an interesting metric to measure a watches desirability.
Interesting is the character of the watch, the opening into the personality of the watchmaker it embodies.
Could anyone else other than Vianney Halter have created the Antiqua or his Goldpfeil model?
The sober perfection of a Simplicity, is that not the sum of Philippe Dufour's art?
I see the quiet joy of perfection, a hidden smile, when I see a watch
from Kari Voutilainen, it's finish sparkling like a jewel, the
complications hiding beneath.
And so the list continues.
I do not know to which level these watchmakers make everything themselves.
I am sure that it is an awful lot, but I do not really care,
because I know that no one else could have made the ensemble, the watch as a whole.
The watches are too much like their makers.
Don
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By: Watch_time_it_is : July 30th, 2007-12:45
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By: nickd : July 31st, 2007-00:25
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By: ticktock : July 31st, 2007-03:43
a surprising choice, one that many collectors do not yet fully appreciate. It's made in-house, assembled individually by master watchmakers, has contributed a huge chunk of innovation to the industry and if judged only by its timekeeping, it is one of the...
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By: nickd : July 31st, 2007-04:44
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