Each store has a lounge with a library, and on the library shelves are books about watches and watchmaking.
The resulting features are a blend of leading-edge technology and watchmaking artistry, thereby spanning a massive divide in a manner never previously attempted in this luxury industry.
Vacheron Constantin and the North American Institute of Swiss Watchmaking have formed a two-year partnership to promote and support high watchmaking in North America.
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The campaign includes an ongoing world tour where the young watchmakers give one-on-one workshops to watch connoisseurs and guests for insight on watchmaking and how complicated timepieces are built.
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Thirty-three people named books by Daniels (in second place, Dava Sobel, with 13 mentions), especially "The Art of Breguet" (1975) and "Watchmaking" (1981).
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The North American Institute of Swiss Watchmaking opened its doors in 2009 with a mission to preserve the art of fine watchmaking and meet an increasing demand for qualified watchmakers and craftspeople.
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No matter how its defined, TimeCrafters provides the general public with an in depth look at watchmaking precision and craftsmanship.
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His standing is a surprise considering he never taught at a watchmaking school and Mr. Smith was his only apprentice.
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This is all by way of saying that the tourbillon today still carries an aura of exclusivity, and sends a message of high watchmaking skill.
The layout is rife with historical references (Saxon watchmaking, early digital timekeepers and classic pocket watch design) but wrought into a very modern composition.
My guide Claudine Buehler, whose husband, father, uncle, aunt and grandfather all work or worked in the watchmaking business, explained that the buildings were laid out this way in the early 19th Century to maximize the amount of sunlight that could flood into the first-floor workshop windows.
Unwinding the mechanism of success for early British watchmaking has proven daunting for later curators and historians.
Well, the award season is well upon us, and it should come as no surprise that luxury watchmaking is well involved.
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For centuries, the wizardry of watchmaking was to take brass, steel, and the jewels used as bearings for the gears, and turn them into tiny works of art that also seemed to take the pulse of the cosmos itself.
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HD3 has always stood out from the crowd of traditional watchmaking by creating modern timepieces that combine modern aesthetics and mechanical complexity.
The Germans have been making watches since the 15th century--watchmaking there actually predates that in Switzerland--and Lange is the quintessential German watch.
The brand already has proven a lot and now stands as a permanent fixture in the world of Swiss watchmaking, particularly with the chronograph models that is its specialty.
The NAIOSW is part of The Institute of Swiss Watchmaking, founded in 2008 in partnership with Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Educational Program, an independent institution based in Switzerland.
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Messrs Vacheron and Breguet, two of the first men to make a success of Swiss watchmaking, started their workshops in the middle of the 18th Century in Geneva, but La Chaux-de-Fonds, about 150km to the northeast, is where Swiss watchmaking became the world standard.
While most of the brands that showed in the quiet, snow-dusted town this month are owned by the watchmaking conglomerate Richemont, the watches themselves differ wildly in style, performance and form.
More than that, La Chaux-de-Fonds is essentially the watchmaking capital of the world, home to the workshops or corporate headquarters of Rolex and Patek Philippe, Tissot and Girard-Perregaux, Ebel and Omega, many of which were founded here.
"He combines the best of traditional watchmaking with this futuristic industrial look, " gushes Paul Boutros, 32, a New Jersey collector and contributor to Timezone, a Web site for watch fanciers.
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