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My PuristS on Tour 2009 memories - part 2

Previously, I posted some memories part 1: click here

Here is part 2..... 

LUCeum

Lunar One

1860 L.U. Chopard watch

Gold Gold Gold!   I can't live without gold.........

Very few true 'manufactures' actually smelt their own gold for the cases......Chopard and Rolex.

Hot Hot Hot!

There you are  --  four kilos of abso-bloody-lutely wonderful gold! 

Lets add it to the pile....

Swarf and machining 'waste'.....er...NOT.  Will be worth a bob or two when recycled.

Patrick showing the spring-bar for the lugs of a 2010 novelty watch 

It is their 150th Anniversary......oooh the stuff I could talk about....but they would have to shoot me.  And all Swiss men are in the armed forces part-time...with guns!

Cheaper swarf and machining waste

Still, a few tons of waste metal will be valuable...remember Green Footprint.

Each year, the graduates of Chopard Watchmaking School sign the poster in all languages of their native coiuntries.  I saw Asian languages too.

The Bee-Man himself.  This is the chap who engraves 42 bees (or NOT) on the case backs of the top-end LUC watches.  His range is 41  -  45 bees, with a mode of 42.

Thanks for watch-ing,

MTF