Four editors spent three months wearing nothing but hand-wound movements. What they found challenges every assumption about the automatic's dominance in modern finishing.
Haute horlogerie is built on invisible work. The anglage on a movement plate that costs more labor-hours than most watches cost in total. We visited three ateliers to understand why finishing is the discipline that separates the serious from the merely expensive.
Two calibers from the same house, separated by a generation. We put them side by side on the timing machine for four weeks.
The mechanism that is simultaneously mechanical and electronic has been producing ±0.5 sec/day accuracy since 2004. We revisit why it still matters.
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