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Life and Times of a Horolo-holic – Pt1 The Begining

Dieter Schanzer — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:21:22 +0000

Life and Times of a Horolo-holic

Here at The Watch Review Site we would like to welcome our latest contributor to the team, Dieter Schanzer whose everyday life as a Chartered Surveyor led to an alter ego as a Timepiece Consultant. His enthusiasm and drive is surpassed only by his knowledge and love for watches, Hence we have named Dieter the Horolo-holic….

Hope you enjoy this series of articles by Dieter about the life and times of a worldwide timepiece consultant with a few reviews thrown in for good measure along the way.

Part1 The Begining – My Love of Watches Saved Me

Written By Dieter Schanzer

Have you ever sat in a meeting and let your mind wander and then suddenly…..wham!!…you look up and everyone around the ever so corporate table is staring intently at you for an answer…..normally, I would panic….but on one serendipitous occasion when this actually happened to me, I casually raised my left eyebrow ala Roger Moore, cocked my head to one side and looked longingly at the CEOs wrist….

“Beautiful Audemars Piguet”, I said…..

His face lit up and the course of the meeting tacked completely……

“I’m very impressed Dieter, very impressed……you like watches?” said the CEO

The remainder of the meeting (to my relief) was taken up by me and the once ever so corporate CEO talking Audemars, Parmigiani, Vacheron, Girard, Rolex, ETA vs in-house, whilst the remaining board members looked, well, bored.

My love of watches had saved me on that day twenty years ago.

I could never have imagined that also on that day a new parallel career as a broker of fine watches would find its’ way to me.

My life up until “that Audemars meeting”, as I now call it, was as a somewhat “maverick” Chartered Surveyor; exploring new territories where my expertise in corporate real estate strategy and Valuation techniques for lending security allowed me to travel extensively and advise mainly Banking Institutions as what to do and what not to do in terms of lending – they rarely listened.

However, it paid handsomely and allowed me to indulge in some beautiful watches……..In short, I quickly became aware that I really didn’t derive much intrinsic satisfaction from my day job as a Chartered Surveyor, so after “that” meeting I began telling Surveying Clients that what they really needed was “a watch like this or that”….and out would come a box or two of watches…..and that’s how I started a private brokerage for fine watches .

How I got Hooked on Timepieces

But it really all started in Dortmund Germany in July 1973 at the age of 7 when my Aunt gave me and my brother Kienzle watches each – mine had luminous minute markers and hands, an orange face (very 70’s!) – that watch absolutely fascinated me I would wear it in bed and stare at those illuminated hands until I fell to sleep……

Thereafter the first sight of Telly Savalas and his LED Hamilton and of course then there were the classic Pulsar PS1 and 2, now those really set my pulsar racing.

My father god bless him, also indulged in a square-faced 18k yellow gold serpentine bracelet black face Beuche Girod in 1977 which I thought was just beautiful as no doubt the thief did who stole it in 1985.

I also remember being “besotted” by a Raymond Weil in 1979 that was a tank shape, black face with two rows of vertical diamonds which was worn by a waiter in my Father’s restaurant…..it was “la passionata”…I was hooked.

Present Day

Back to 2012… some watches, or should I say the people who wear without regard “any” watch, really depress me – almost always these are male.

What saddens me most is that I know of some £1m per year salaried Savile Row suited, Lobb shod, Hilditch & Key shirted city boys who will wear, well, a piece of crap on their wrist but as mentioned, the very finest of everything on the rest of their body!

Why do I find it so nauseating that some people “don’t care” about what watch they wear, it’s beyond me, beyond me, completely….but it shouldn’t be beyond me, as we all know, a person’s choice of timepiece truly reflects them as an individual – if they’re happy to wear a plastic-digital-mass-produced $5 watch with absolutely no personality (note the “no personality”), so be it……you can never convert “those” types into aficionados.

Women on the other hand, are much more in tune with wearing a “quality watch” and adore being told about the lasting appeal of a Cartier Tank or a Jaeger leCoultre Reverso….I sell a lot of watches to ladies.

One of my Little Adventures…

But getting back to awkward meetings, one of my first Client’s was an Uzbek gentleman not noted for his sense of humour ( by his “victims” shall we say as I later found out).

Imagine this, Tashkent, the middle of nowhere, a blacked out Mercedes arrives at my Hotel and out steps Mr Black (made up name) and a super model which I assume to be his significant other. I greet him with an outstretched hand and he doesn’t reciprocate, “fine” I thought. One of his (two) henchmen tells me to “sit” as we enter the lobby….Gulp…his beautiful Amazonian wife faked a “sort of smile” and extended a seemingly never-ending leg and entwined it so gracefully over her other leg as she got comfortable, I was instantly distracted…ahem..

“I always get what I want Mr Dieter, and if I don’t, “we” get unhappy, especially my wife, she get very angry with you…..” said Mr Black

“Of course” my newly falsetto voice replied as I tried not to make eye contact with his beautiful wife, but failed….

“…Okay you show me all watches, I hope you bring me good watch” said Mr Black

“Of course” I squeaked and opened up my case of beauties handing them to him one by one with a loving introduction to the maker, model, and specification of each…

“No, no, I don’t like, no, not this one , nor this, no, not that either…..” said Mr Black

“Oh dear”, I thought…..

Then, in the style of an Uzbek Matt Lucas in a Little Britain sketch he uttered the immortal words ” I want that one”, he was pointing at my wrist.

What could I say other than “Of course”, whilst smiling as his wife had done when we met. I handed “it” over – a deal was done, papers and box soon followed by courier. “It” was a rather special Rolex Submariner with a rare dial in 18k gold. Boo Hoo!

However, Mr Black and his wife were happy and I was still alive, but in need of a new watch …..excellent. Win/Win.
More tails of high jinx, watch deals and maybe a review or two next time……….

This Article was written by Dieter Schanzer for The Watch Review Site you can follow Dieter on his Facebook Page Schanzer Timepieces Consultancy here but we will surely be providing you with the rest of Dieters adventures here on The Watch Review Site so stay tuned…

Royal Oak Chronographs – Lionel Messi – Audemars Piguet Ambassador

Scott Greenman — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:05:06 +0000

Lionel Messi is Proud to be a Part of Audemars Piguet

Written by Scott Greenman

Audemars Piguet releases a trilogy of Royal Oak chronographs dedicated to (arguable) the best football player in the world, Lionel Messi.

As in any fine piece of mechanical and artistic brilliance there was a collaboration of many talents. The first step in the process of making this kind of watch is for an artist to give an accurate pretrial of the end result. The Chief Artistic Officer assigned to this collection was Octavio Garcia. Octavio worked alongside Leo to come up with the design of the line. What they came up with is what I believe to be a striking tribute to one of the world’s best strikers.

“I’m proud to have played a part in the creation of the Royal Oak Leo Messi, and proud that it bears my name.”- Leo Messi

Although the Lionel Messi collection gives the impression of being a typical Royal Oak, it is not. This compilation has three defining factors that make it unique. First there is no Tapisserie motif on the dial which lends itself to a more elegant look. Second the octagonal shaped bezel is made of Tantalum, a rare metal with an esthetically pleasing color. Finally to continue the trend of bigger, but not ridiculously big watches the Leo Messi collection is 41mm in diameter instead of the classic 39mm diameter.

“In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision.” –Lionel Messi

He is right; one can all look at this watch and marvel at its beauty. One can do that for many watches, but no one can look past the precision that is Audemars Piguet.

The Leo Messi collection has the 2385 caliber which is a self-winding movement with 304 parts. Each of these parts are meticulously set into place by master watchmakers and all of the functions are tested for accuracy. I know that may not mean a lot to you, but what I can tell you is I have sold many Audemars Piguet watches and have never had someone return the watch saying it was not working or not keeping time. That is a testament to their rigorous precision that is Audemars Piguet.

If you are interested in AP, then why not look at the following articles Audermar Piguet Openworked extra thin 40th Edition or the making of Audemars Piguet on The Watch Review Site.

Originaa article provided by Scott Greenman and can be found at http://www.thefinestwatches.com/blog/?p=285

Audermars Piguet the Making of….

D Constant — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:59:54 +0000

Video: Audemars Piguet the Making of….

We found this little treasure online and thought that discerning watch enthusiast, watch reviews and bloggers would be interested.

Its an 8 minute video on the process of making an Audemars Piguet Watch, Interesting watching for all we think from the novice watch enthusiast to the more adapt timepiece aficionados out there.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we did….

Here it is Audemars Piguet The Making of…..

You may also like to see some other related videos and reviews on The Watch Review Site, some related articles are the video interview with Audemars Piguet Art Director Octavio Garcia about The Royal Oak Anniversary or the The Story Behind the L’odyssee de Cartier a behind the scenes look at the phenomenon of L’odyssee de Cartier video and interview with Cartier Heritage Director.

Audemars Piguet – The Royal Oak Anniversary – Video

Meehna Goldsmith — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:42:39 +0000

Video: The Royal Oak Anniversary, Park Armory and Audemars Piguet Art Director Octavio Garcia

Written By: Meehna Goldsmith

Gerald Genta’s Special Royal Oak with Gold Bezel

If you’re a watch geek, I’m sure you either attended or heard about Audemars Piguet’s celebration of the 40^th anniversary of the Royal Oak. One of the pieces released in honor of the birthday was the Openworked Extra-Thin Royal Oak Limited edition.

What you haven’t seen or heard is this special interview with AP art director Octavio Garcia done at SIHH a few months ago. He gives insight into the history of the Royal Oak and its impact on the watch landscape as well as why AP decided to reposition themselves and change their message.

Against the backdrop of footage taken at the exhibition held at the Park Armory, Garcia gives us a window into the world of Audemars Piguet through the Royal Oak. He speaks about the watch that shook up sport watch category for its bold and audacious design—and price.

For the show, Audemars Piguet commissioned avant-garde artists to transform the space. Dan Holdsworth took sumptuous pictures of the Vallée de Joux, where Audemars Piguet’s home of Le Brassus resides; Sebastian Leon Agneesens provided an otherworldly sound installation seeming to emanate from organ pipes set around the room; while Davide Quayola transfixed with his experimental film, playing with sculpture, photography and geometry assembling and disassembling over a mirroring pool.

Enjoy!

You may also like the following articles related to Audermars Piguet on The Watch Review Site /audemars-piguet-skeleton-royal-oak-selfwinding/ or /audemars-piguet-royal-oak-offshore-diver/

Article provided by Meehna Goldsmith you can also follow Meehna on Twitter @thewatchlady

Original article can be viewed at http://www.watchmatchmaker.com/brands/audemars_piguet/video-the-royal-oak-anniversary-park-armory-and-audemars-piguet-art-director-octavio-garcia.html

The Sound of Time

Admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:58:34 +0000

The Sound of Time

By JESSICA MICHAULT

Published: March 8, 2012

PARIS — For most of the past decade the watch industry has been entranced by the tourbillon’s hypnotic revolutions, with brands spinning out the cagey little complication in ever greater numbers and more ingenious ways.

But recently watchmakers have broken free of the spell, shifting their attention from the visual fascination of the tourbillon to the tuneful appeal of the minute repeater.

Minute repeater clocks and pocket watches were invented in the mid-18th century, before the advent of electric lighting. Their practical function at that time was their ability, though chiming gongs, to sound the hours, quarter hours and minutes in separate tones, enabling people to tell the time even in the middle of a pitch black night.

Over the past year, close to two dozen new minute repeater models have been introduced in the luxury wristwatch market, by brands as diverse in style and heritage as Bulgari, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Louis Vuitton, Audemars Piguet, Speake-Marin, Van Cleef & Arpels, Breguet, Patek Philippe, Cartier, Hublot, Ulysse Nardin, Girard-Perregaux and Parmigiani Fleurier.

The number of new minute repeaters on the market is staggering, considering that there is no real need for them in the modern world. But that irrelevance — the sense of belonging to another world — is part of their appeal.

“There is a true fascination in being able to hear the time, it harks back to another lifetime,” Peter Speake-Marin, an independent watchmaker, said by e-mail ahead of the introduction of his first venture into the genre, the Renaissance Tourbillon Minute Repeater, at Baselworld this week. “When it is visible, to see the levers, cams and springs moving, it is a thing of curious beauty,” he added.

While the minute repeater function is no longer particularly useful, the complexity of the mechanism gives makers serious bragging rights.

At the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva in January, the minute repeater watches garnered the biggest buzz.

Cartier’s haute horlogerie watchmaker, Carole Forestier-Kasapi, proudly showed her Rotonde de Cartier Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon. The brand’s first in-house-manufactured minute repeater, it took five years to complete.

“The minute repeater is complex because in this mechanism you need to have in mind not only hours and minutes but also to be able to translate them into sound,” Mrs. Forestier-Kasapi said. “That’s why a minute repeater mechanism includes a large number of components: Their number increases the complexity of the mechanism in an exponential way.”

Mrs. Forestier-Kasapi complemented her minute repeater with the added eye candy of a tourbillon complication. Just like the minute repeater, the tourbillon — a gyro device to counter the distorting effect of gravity on vertical timepieces like clocks and pocket watches — serves no useful function in a wristwatch. But by putting an additional spin on the complication, in a variant known as a flying tourbillon, the watchmaker was able to demonstrate her brand’s high creativity and growing technical prowess.

The technical difficulty of building a minute repeater, which incorporates an additional spring to power the chiming mechanism, is a clear way for watchmakers to distinguish themselves. To sound the hours, quarters and minutes, the mechanism uses three snail cams — tiny rotating devices, shaped like a cross-section through a snail shell, that transmit a repetitive bumpy motion as they turn, like a wheel with a bent rim. The bumpy motion cocks and releases the hammers that strike the chimes.

And then, there are the chimes themselves to build and tune, a painstaking process using wires of varying tension and thickness, like miniature piano strings.

While some watchmakers like to flaunt their skills in see-through skeleton designs, Van Cleef & Arpels has chosen to conceal its minute repeater complication behind the richly decorated faces of its new Poetic Wish watches, which tell a romantic story of lovers seeking one another against a backdrop of the Paris skyline.

For Nicolas Bos, Van Cleef’s global creative director, this discretion is in keeping with the brand’s philosophy that a watch’s complications should serve, not dominate, its narrative.

“Jean-Marc Wiederrecht helped us determine this was the best movement to illustrate the story,” Mr. Bos said by e-mail, paying homage to the Geneva watch designer who has conceived Van Cleef’s Poetic Complications watch line since 2005. “The minute repeater was able to add a sensorial layer” of sound that accompanies the visible movements of the lovers whose passage across the dial traces the passage of time.

But it is Michael Parmigiani of Parmigiani Fleurier who is truly setting the pace in the minute repeater revival, introducing several new models this year: the Toric Westminster Eiffel; the Toragraph Tourbillon Minute Repeater with Chronograph; and the Toric Questor Minute Repeater, offered in a limited edition of just two watches, one in platinum and one in 18-karat rose gold.

Why so many?

“While we already have a great collection at Parmigiani Fleurier, we felt we needed to have a minute repeater in the Haute Horlogerie segment as well as a minute repeater with Cathedral gong, chronograph, perpetual and annual calendar,” Mr. Parmigiani said. “It is a way to achieve excellence in the profession and to prove our know-how by creating such rare models.”

Source: New York Times

A version of this article appeared in print on March 9, 2012, in The International Herald Tribune

Full article available http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/fashion/09iht-acaw-repeater09.html

Introducing Audemars Piguet Openworked Extra-Thin Royal Oak 40th Anniversary

Meehna Goldsmith — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:05:36 +0000

How Do you Celebrate the Birthday of an Icon? With a Skinny Skeleton

13th November 2011

Written by Meehna Goldsmith

Next year marks the 40^th anniversary of the Royal Oak, a timepiece designed by Gérald Genta in 1972 that redefined the luxury sport watch market and arguably saved the ailing fortunes of Audemars Piguet. Such a big birthday brings with it a lot of tension and anticipation.

Watch aficionados are raring at the bit hoping to see a model that properly pays homage to the history while at the same time stands on its own as a 21^st century watch. Imagine the pressure on AP to deliver something special not only to please the fans but also to respect its lineage and DNA. You definitely don’t want a flop on your hands in this instance.

During my trip to the Audemars Piguet manufacture this year, the hot topic of conversation was the direction Audemars Piguet would go in their tribute model. Octavio Garcia, Audemars Piguet’s head designer, braved the tumult of questions without giving away any hints. Guesses ranged from moving the Audemars Piguet logo back to its original position down at 6 o’clock to doing a completely faithful re-edition as a flashback to 1972. While we admit a certain affection for disco balls and Elvis Presley, we certainly don’t miss the days of bell bottoms and the AMC Gremlin. The day of reckoning has come and fortunately, AP didn’t fall into the trap of rehashing their 8-track tape.

As we’ve talked about before thin is still in and might even be considered the new black—a chic style that has chameleon-like properties. The Audemars Piguet Openworked Extra Thin Royal Oak is in its element whether you’re skiing the powder in Aspen, taking in a cocktail on the beach in Cote d’Azur, or conducting a business deal in a sleek high-rise.

Audemars Piguet chose to power its first Royal Oak chariot with the very lean Calibre 2121, one of the thinnest automatic mechanical movements at just a mere 3.05mm thick. Working with this same base, the craftspeople at Le Brassus hollowed out and engraved the entire movement, including the hanging barrel, and renamed it Calibre 5122. The result is at once sleek and modern without looking fragile, though the connoisseur will understand the deft hand necessary to create such a piece. Think of skeletonization as a dangerous balancing act without a net. One misstep and it’s all over. There’s no covering up a mistake. Take too much away and the movement doesn’t function correctly and the job must be started again.

The masculine gray color is achieved through a galavanic treatment to the bridges and the transparent effect is maintained through the use of a sapphire date disc and black transferred numbers.

A Royal Oak wouldn’t be a Royal Oak without certain characteristics and this one proudly announces them: the octagonal bezel and eight polished hexagonal screws, the integrated case with its tapering bracelet, and, of course the “tapisserie” motif, which is found in the external segment of the dial.

The movement can also be admired from the rear through the exhibition back. Look closely and you’ll see an inscription on the monobloc 22-carat oscillating weight: “Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 1972-2012”.

Did Audemars Piguet come up with a worthy successor to its patriarch. I think so.

Offered in a limited edition of 40, the Royal Oak Limited Edition comes in a 39mm platinum case, the same size as the original. As many collectors will probably want to get their hands on this one, I expect a non-limited model might be released in the more affordable steel.

Article content provided by Meehna Goldsmith you can also follow Meehna on Twitter @thewatchlady

Original article can be viewed at http://www.watchmatchmaker.com/brands/audemars_piguet/introducing-audemars-piguet-openworked-extra-thin-royal-oak-limited-edition-40th-anniversary.html

Photographs sourced from Audemars Piguet

Digital Luxury Group unveils haute horlogerie World Watch Report results

Admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:10:12 +0000

Digital Luxury Group unveils haute horlogerie World

Watch Report results

23 January 2012 | By Laura McCreddie

The leading market research for the luxury watch industry released its findings, based on analysis of consumer searches through engines such as Google, Bing, Yandex and Baidu, for the 15 high-end watch brands that participated in this year’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH).

It found that, for the first time since 2004, China has over taken the US to become the highest consumer of high-end watches, with 25% of international search market share, compared to 21% for the US.

Another first was Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak usurping Jaeger LeCoultre’s Reverso as the most wanted haute horlogerie model. For the first time in three years the Reverso is now third behind the Royal Oak and IWC’s Portuguese.

Despite the Royal Oak being the most wanted watch, the report found that the most searched brands are IWC, which has 23% of the online demand, Patek Philippe, which has 16%, and Zenith, which has 11%.

This result could be due in part to IWC’s social media presence. The brand is active on Facebook, Twitter, and Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website. On Facebook alone IWC has a 230,000 strong community, making it over double the size of its closest competitor Jaeger LeCoultre on 85,000.

The full edition of the WorldWatchReport, which covers 40 brands and 20 markets, will be available in March at BaselWorld

Source: http://www.retail-jeweller.com/news/digital-luxury-group-unveils-haute-horlogerie-world-watch-report-results/5032955.article

Audemars Piguet – Royal Oak Offshore White Gold with Diamonds

Admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:09:24 +0000

Royal Oak Offshore White Gold with Diamonds

Ref – 15130BC.ZZ.8042BC.01

Selfwinding watch with centre seconds. 18-carat white gold case, white gold dial, 18-carat white gold bracelet. 590 baguette-cut diamonds, ~ 55,75 carats.

Technical Details

Case

Entirely set with diamonds,

Sapphire crystal,

Not water-resistant

Dial

Diamond paved,

Blackened gold Royal Oak hands,

White gold flange

Bracelet

Entirely set with diamonds with AP folding clasp

Functions

Hours, minutes, centre seconds

Movement thickness with module – 0.00 mm

Total diameter – 11¾ mm

Type of balance – With Variable inertia blocks

Frequency of balance wheel – 4,00 (=28’800 alternances/hour) Hz

Type of balance-spring stud-holder – Mobile stud

Balance-spring type – Flat

Direction of automatic winding – Unidirectional

Type of oscillating weight – Weight segment in 21-carat gold

Number of jewels – 32

Power reserve – 38 h

Calibre

Calibre 2325

Specificities

Stop balance when setting time

Oscillating weight with ceramic ball bearings

Date / Date / Date in Dial aperture

Audemars Piguet – Royal Oak Offshore Diver

Sol Solomon — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:48:46 +0000

AP Royal Oak Offshore Diver – Ref – 15703ST.OO.A002CA.01

Official AP Royal Oak Offshore Divers Video

Selfwinding watch with dive-time measurement and date. Stainless steel case, black dial with inner rotating ring with diving scale, luminescent hour-markers and hands. Black strap.

Technical Details

Case

Glareproofed sapphire crystal,

black rubber clad screw-locked crowns,

water-resistant to 300 m

Dial

“Méga Tapisserie” pattern,

white gold applied hour-markers and Royal Oak hands with luminescent coating,

inner rotating flange with diving scale

Bracelet

Rubber with stainless steel pin buckle

Functions

hours, minutes, center seconds, date

Movement thickness with module – 4.26 mm

Total diameter – 11¾ lines

Type of balance – With Variable inertia blocks

Frequency of balance wheel – 3,00 (=21’600 alternances/hour) Hz

Type of balance-spring stud-holder – Screwed mobile stud

Balance-spring type – Flat

Direction of automatic winding – Bidirectional

Type of oscillating weight – Monobloc in 22-carat gold

Number of jewels – 40

Power reserve – 60 h

Number of parts – 280

Calibre

Selfwinding Manufacture Calibre 3120

Specificities

Stop balance when setting time

Oscillating weight with ceramic ball bearings

Bevels of the bridges are diamond graved

Inverted snailing on bridges

Date / Date in Dial aperture

Audemars Piguet – Royal Oak Tuxedo

Sol Solomon — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:38:32 +0000

Royal Oak Tuxedo

Selfwinding watch. 18-carat white gold case entirely set with diamonds, polished lacquered black dial with diamond-set hour-markers and hands. Shiny black leather strap. 306 brilliant-cut diamonds, ~5.01 carats.

Ref – 15154BC.ZZ.D004CU.01

Technical Details

Case

Entirely set with diamonds,

glareproofed sapphire crystal and caseback,

screw-locked crown set with a rose-cut diamond,

water-resistant to 50 m

Dial

Polished laquered, diamond-set white gold applied hour-markers,

diamond-set white gold hands

Bracelet

Diamond-set 18-carat white gold AP folding clasp

Functions

Hours, minutes

Movement thickness with module – 0.00 mm

Total diameter – 12½ mm

Type of balance – With Variable inertia blocks

Frequency of balance wheel – 2,75 (=19’800 alternances/hour) Hz

Type of balance-spring stud-holder – Mobile stud

Balance-spring type – Flat

Direction of automatic winding – Bidirectional

Type of oscillating weight – Support and weight segment in 21-carat gold

Number of jewels – 36

Power reserve – 40 h

Number of parts – 212

Calibre

Calibre 2120 Manufactured

Specificities

Extra-thin movement

Suspended barrel

Shake of the oscillating weight guaranteed thanks to annular ring running on four jewels

Manual finishing of the bridges (polished bevels, satin brushed edges, Perlage on the recesses)

Oscillating weight can be custom decorated upon customer’s request