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Technical
Modules have existed for hundreds of years in watchmaking. They grant the pragmatic approach to watchmaking to add a complication to an existing movement without the need to design an entire movement from scratch inclusive of the added desired complication/function.
An insight into the world of a movement designer/constructor.
“The motif is my own interpretation of a forest, I like this ambiguity and the borderline between realism and abstraction.” Rose Saneuil.
“To master the technique is to free oneself; reinventing tradition means participating in its conservation; going beyond one's limits is a step towards creation.
The Souscription pocket watch was built over 200 years ago. In addition to the originality of its design and technical innovation, is the thought process and entrepreneurial aspect linked to this piece…
After paying out thousands of pounds for a luxury watch, owners are often quite surprised when they’re advised to keep their watch serviced…
A simple day/night indicator can be a two-colour disc showing day or night through either white and black coloured segments.
Luxury watches are a special class of wristwear that requires special care and attention…
André restoring an antique pully system, recorded by his son.
Atelier Blandenier is an artisanal workshop making dials by hand from diverse techniques including engraving and enamel.
It was nicknamed "the potato" because of the movements triangular, ovoid shape. Designed in 1961/1962 and built-in 1963.
Sad to say, theft has been and will always be a part of watch ownership. What I’ve done at Alpha Hands is add transparency to the marketplace by creating the largest free-to-post and free-to-search database of stolen watches.
Rarely are watch movements made with a few extra parts included, just in case…
Millions of pocket watches still exist in drawers, safes and museums. During the life of many, their gold cases were often melted down, their material value being higher than the value of the actual pocket watch. Untold numbers were destroyed, but many still remain, vestiges of a by-gone era.
Recently viewed in the metal during the Geneva Watch Days, a watch that looks simple but is highly complex (in a constructive way). Images and films do not do justice to a beautiful timepiece.
….an artisanal workshop can resemble a tool room of a large manufacturing complex.
The surviving movement remains a living memory of watchmakers time spent over a century ago to produce a very high-end timepiece.
Antique tools, another era.
The Elgin National Watch Company, better known as Elgin Watch Company, was one of the largest US watch manufactures in history between 1864 and 1968.
I recently had the privilege to carry out some work on ‘No.4’ by Buchanan. The regulator had been in America for some years before being shipped over to the UK where it has been ever since.
