The Arnold & Son Time Pyramid
The Arnold & Son Time Pyramid
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The Arnold & Son Time Pyramid
Greubel Forsey Double Tourbillon Technique. Photo courtesy Malik Bahri.
If you have been following my writing all these years, there are a few things you probably know about me. One, I am extremely enamored of the rare handcrafts that almost died out of the mechanical watch industry when it was declared dead during the quartz crisis of the 1970s and early 1980s. I am talking about unique crafts demanding high amounts of skill and concentration like guilloché (a particular favorite of mine), engraving, skeletonization and enamel. Two, I really, really like German watches.
Grieb & Benzinger St-George dial
Grieb & Benzinger St-George
Grieb & Benzinger St-George movement detail
Grieb & Benzinger St-George back
There are truly so few watch brands that take creating timepieces for the female watch connoisseur seriously. Jaeger-LeCoultre, naturally, takes enthusiasts seriously, ably demonstrated by the fill of amazingly complicated and innovative masterpieces introduced over the last 180 years.
But how many of these have been expressly created with the feminine wrist in mind? Very few. Even Jaeger-LeCoultre has “only” generally created lines for women that focus on the decorative rather than the complex …
Jaeger LeCoultre Rendez Vous Celestial wristshot
Lapis lazuli dial of the Jaeger LeCoultre Rendez Vous Celestial
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