A Real Watch Manufacturer: When THIN was in......

Hello all,

Remember when thin was in?

Back when I started looking into the high end watches in 1997, all the serious brands displayed their technical skills by producing the thinnest and smallest mechanical movements around. I marveled at seeing these ultra thin pieces and wondered how something like that could actually work. Flash forward to 2010 and while I was visiting my favorite AD waiting for a piece to arrive I was shown this one in the display case:

A U.S. quarter to contrast the size of the case, amazing isn't it?

Elegant yet functional and like a second skin on your wrist.

When you think about it, this really should be the way to go. Dang, now I need an ultra thin watch!

-MW

Extremes

By: AndrewD : September 13th, 2010-15:41

Thanks for the photos, Ming. Fashions in watches come and go, so thin watches will definitely be back in vogue at some stage. And as I was looking through your post it struck me that "Extremes" would make quite an interesting and varied theme for a collec...

re: (Piaget ) extremes...

By: DRMW : September 15th, 2010-02:13

I usually like sports watches but it was real nice to have a thin watch on the wrist, thanks for looking. -MW

Ah!

By: dxboon : September 14th, 2010-00:32

The lovely square Altiplano! I tried this piece on at my local AD not too long ago and it's a beauty on the wrist. Very different in feel to the round Altiplano. The watch seems quite stark in a way, but that's okay. It's really quite striking, and the th...

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