The Naked Watchmaker

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Part 5, Pliers (2). A photo study from 1991 by Willy Abplanalp and text by Gil Baillod...

Pliers (2)

The tool looks like a couple of dancers to whom we fix the theme of variation on which they can evolve into infinity.

To impose, held between their jaws, sliding towards each other and embraces for a kiss, cutting ... biting cruely or warmly.

These primitive tools, of multifunction, gradually multiplied through millennia and centuries, in the shape as required in each gesture of the craft, has become a specialist in a practice. The head of the pliers is an example of this infernal multiplication in a devil of tools, ready for all mischief.


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