Found: Two Incredible Pocket Watches From Girard-Perregaux, Including A Tourbillon With Three Bridge
The romantic notion of a handmade watch is one that doesn't stand very much exposure to the present world of watchmaking. For many decades, the overwhelming majority of components found in series produced watches have been produced by multi-axis milling machines, and if today you visit pretty much any watch manufactory from the smallest to the largest, you'll see that most parts are being made by computer controlled (CNC) machines. There are any number of practical reasons why this is so, of course (and in general, everyone has benefited, including consumers) but it's interesting to look back occasionally to watches made at a time when handmade meant just that – and when the skill of the hands doing the making was instantly visible. These two pocket watches, from Girard-Perregaux, represent the absolute acme of the art of watchmaking in the 19th century, and a range of manual skills that in some cases at least are for all intents and purposes extinct.The two pocket wa

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