Horological Meandering

Tim Jackson
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I’ll chime in, having been to visit them in Barcelona in Oct 2017.

Your list and comments seem to ask a question or rather question AdC’s business model.
Which on the face of it is fine, however, when you add at the end that their price, you are suggesting to readers that you are making more of a statement.
I may be incorrect here, and if so, please correct me.

Here’s what I know to be true. These two folks, Santi & Montse are passionate about high quality watches.
Their main business is vintage watches and they seem to consistently procure superb condition items that they subsequently sell to their clients.
They also have a business in Barcelona that I visited, where they, together with Moebius, create wonderful classic vintage inspired time only wristwatches with calibers based on Vintage omega calibers from the 1940’s & ‘50’s, in tiny quantities.
The calibers have significant reworked and wholly created new parts designed on paper and then created without the use of CNC help. The handmade moniker, is true in that much of the movement parts are handmade. They are all then hand finished is traditional fashion by Moebius and I suspect a few other artisan Watchmakers in Barcelona, to exacting standards. The final products are beautifully executed and stand on their own as examples of the Independent artisan Watchmaker’s art. Each watch, even if starting with the same Omega base caliber, has differing bridge work and style of finishing.
The dials are classical ‘40’s & 60’s style with modern had finished cases to match.
There is no pretense at anything less, with full transparency on their behalf, as to why they are creating these watches.

Whether or not one sees value is up to the individual and their own criteria. What I will tell you from my perspective is that the work going into these watches from AdC is significant and not easy. Again, I realize beauty is in eye of the beholder, and their style and look may not to be ones taste, but the execution and expertise involved to hand craft these watches is not debatable in my world.

As someone else mentioned, the highly and correctly vaunted KV, took the venerable Peseux 260 caliber and made wonderful watches from it, refinishing them to wonderfully high standards. No one I know gave him any push back for doing that.

So there you have it. My 2 cents.

Cheers,
Tim

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