Interview With Watch Maker Christophe Claret
Christophe Claret �C who has been producing some of the most complex watch movements for 20 years, for both himself and others �C has long absorbed influences and embraced the march of technology to produce some of the most elaborate and boundary-pushing movements around.His state-of-the-art atelier in Switzerland is so geared up to make the most of technological advances that as well as producing watches, it also manufactures innovative tools.Since beginning to produce watches under his own name, he has continued to push boundaries with creations that allow the owner to play baccarat and black jack, or that merge movements with their traditional enemy - magnets - to tell the time with floating ball-bearings.After all, in his own words: A creator must be receptive to all sorts of things, whether something in nature, or in all kinds of objects �C machine tools, automotive, aerospace, science. And although he made his name in horology circles for his work with others, his own-name creation

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Let us talk about the 2018 Basel Releases Thread
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