The fit was apparent as soon as his parents enrolled him in watchmaking school.
He fled to West Germany, settling in Pforzheim, another traditional center of German watchmaking.
Unwinding the mechanism of success for early British watchmaking has proven daunting for later curators and historians.
"He combines the best of traditional watchmaking with this futuristic- industrial look, " gushes Paul Boutros, 32, a U.S. collector.
Vacheron Constantin is the first Swiss watchmaking brand to partner with the NAIOSW, based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
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"This life" places him far outside the watchmaking mainstream, in a category--independent artisans--all but extinct though now surprisingly vital.
Each store has a lounge with a library, and on the library shelves are books about watches and watchmaking.
Around the lobby are scattered the brass watchmaking tools that Journe's predecessors used.
No matter how its defined, TimeCrafters provides the general public with an in depth look at watchmaking precision and craftsmanship.
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The brand will supply educational tools on high watchmaking topics, such as the prestigious Hallmark of Geneva, founded in 1887.
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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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The staff cut the vegetables for a hearts of palm salad in a way that resembles the watchmaking technique of beveling.
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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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HD3 has always stood out from the crowd of traditional watchmaking by creating modern timepieces that combine modern aesthetics and mechanical complexity.
Other products exported by Swiss watchmaking firms, mainly components, also experienced a sharp upturn in value (18.1 percent to 1.2 billion francs).
The Germans have been making watches since the 15th century--watchmaking there actually predates that in Switzerland--and Lange is the quintessential German watch.
Just as Abraham-Louis Breguet was a founding father of mechanical watchmaking, his great-great grandson, Louis-Charles Breguet, achieved similar fame in the aviation field.
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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 layout is rife with historical references (Saxon watchmaking, early digital timekeepers and classic pocket watch design) but wrought into a very modern composition.
It is as diametrically opposed to the finesse (of whatever level) of fine watchmaking (whatever that means) as a Trabant is from a Bentley.
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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.
Can luxury watchmaking find a larger audience in the United States?
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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Known for its luxury writing instruments, the venerable Hamburg, Germany-based company entered the world of Swiss watchmaking in 1997, when it purchased the villa.
Under his leadership, Ulysse Nardin rose once more to the top of the mechanical watchmaking sector, with numerous innovations such as the first astronomical wrist watches.
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.
Made largely outside Japan (this one was put together in a factory in Malaysia) they are mechanical watchmaking in, in some respects, its purest form.
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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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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 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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