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Celebrating Ambel's Latest Timepiece; The First Vincent Deprez Tourbillon
In June 2022, I happened to visit Vincent Deprez and I was so impressed by his work that I felt compelled to share his work on WatchProSite.com. Deprez is a young and gifted artisan (only in his 30s) and was a prodigy who started working for Vacheron Constantin when he was 15 years of age!
Here's the review I wrote about him. I thoroughly inspected his timepiece (a prototype where I sharply criticized the lug holes on the case - Deprez promised me that actual client pieces wouldn't have these holes) and had him answer all of my interrogation questions. Even digging out minute details about how he funded his business, how many childhood piggy banks he broke open and with which hammer. In the end, I have to say, Deprez is among one of the most talented young watchmakers I've recently met who is making almost everything by himself and almost everything without a CNC machine.
Here is a link to my post detailing the interview with Deprez.
While I was at Deprez's workshop, I saw a watch that was being worked on. The first Vincent Deprez watch to be sold. A piece that had taken several months to craft. That piece happens to belong to one of our dear members. A big congratulations to Ambel on his latest timepiece. And big thanks to you for being a Patron of Horological Art! We thank you (and your spouse) for funding this exciting craft! Ambel was also kind enough to share with us his latest timepiece publically. Thank you Ambel for letting your watch family know about your special piece and sharing your thoughts about it! Often special purchases like kept too quiet and nobody really knows how these things perform. Who would know Brand X's watches were any good and reliable if nobody ever commented about them?
Here is Ambel's celebratory post! Feel free to leave our member Ambel a message!
Again. Huge congrats to Ambel. Wishing you beaucoup de enjoyment!
A movement under construction. The watchmaker told me in his mediocre English that I wasn't allowed to breath on this watch. I responded in my terrible French that I understood. I had to hold my breath (and I was already masked) to capture the photograph.
Deprez does the real slow anglage. First with metal files then later with three wooden sticks of three progressively finer diamond sandpaper.
Vincent Deprez is young! But brilliant!
Here is the prototype on my wrist! It looks good on my wrist!
This message has been edited by cazalea on 2022-07-07 20:03:53
Celebrating Ambel's Latest Timepiece; The First Vincent Deprez Tourbillon
In June 2022, I happened to visit Vincent Deprez and I was so impressed by his work that I felt compelled to share his work on Deprez is a young and gifted artisan (only in his 30s) and was a prodigy who started working for Vacheron Constantin when he wa...
Very nice balance bridge
Love the look, very clean. The case leaves some to be desired, but this tends to be common with new startups. Thanks for sharing
The case is actually quite impressive in person...
When you see how the back is joined to the main body, you'd be impressed. It's not a simple screw on case back. It's a case back that would be made with 100+ year old techniques, before screwed case backs were popular (which really are thanks to CNC machi...
Likely is better in person
The shape overall gives me iwc Portuguese FA jones vibes. Lugs sorta simple. He needs to channel his inner VC for some lugs! Will be nice to see future offerings here
A young and very talented watchmaker
I really hope to meet him at some point and see his masterpiece
It's definitely a masterpiece!
And then when you realize there's no big CNC machine, it's all made using small tools, no computerized big machines, that's when you think "oh my goodness, how does he do that?"
There are probably a million and one factors
But I think the biggest one is the clutter. It's super cool to see the entire gear train, mainspring, balance, etc, but it becomes a bit much to look at. The actual dial on the Breguet is even smaller proportionally than the dial on this Deprez. Not to me...
You'd be one of those trust fund babies with good taste!
Yes. The Breguet La Tradition series often come with these tiny dials. They ought be a bit bigger.
One of my favorite youtube personalities made a video bemoaning the ultra rich...
Not for their hoarding wealth, dubious morality, or any of the usual stuff. He was just annoyed that despite having all that wealth, the vast majority of "0.1%ers" still manage to have awful taste 😂 Somebody needs to buy those La Traditions! And I agree, ...
