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Amazingly, older generations of the skeleton have sometimes even more finer finishing!
Enthusiasts have been paying more and getting less for a long, long time now. Higher prices, yet more industrialization and machine finishing. Higher profits aren't being routed to products but rather to marketing, advertising and wooing VIPs. AP is among many others in this regard.
Hand finishing is an art...
By: pfang56 : August 4th, 2023-11:00
And it does seem there are fewer craftsman that can finish like this, but it's understandable. Is musical or athletic talent passed down easily? Probably somewhat but not 1000%. If anything what I can say is that the finishings on the exterior have been e...
By: hora12reborn : August 3rd, 2023-05:33
Unfortunately this is the new normal. Formerly there was pride to deliver best craftsmanship without bragging about. It simply went without saying. Now storytelling and dazzling is often the only what you get and you have to pay way more for less than bef...
True...
By: pfang56 : August 4th, 2023-11:05
Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel - with the development of the Universelle - it provides a blueprint for haute mechanical movements at least across its lines. The core of the split second mechanism in the Universelle seems to be already consi...