Baselworld after dinner table shot...
Fairly partial to Independent Watchmaking on this table I'd say! There was one PP from memory.... Cheers, Tim...
Hey Tim
Awesome table shot! Any pieces from independents that caught your attention this year? S
PS
Do you know anything about the Royal Oak on the table? Haven't seen that one before.
Small number manufacturer with a production of over 50.000 pieces per annum?
As much as I respect PP, I'd not call them a "small number manufacturer". A small number manufacturer is in my opinion, a manufacturer that/who produces 100 to 1000 less tham PP per annum.
you can have also just 2 - 3 watches from Patek :-)
There are some models in the collection that do offer such homeopathic numbers, per year as you know. Your number suits more the definition of a workshop, an atelier rather than an industrial scale manufacturer. And there is obviously also an atelier at P...
It is indeed
Quite another ball game to run a fairly large firm with such relatively laege manufacturing output with such a consistent and high quality, compared with atelier/ small workshops. Quite an amazing feat. The difference between "prêt-à-porter" and "sur mesu...
Is that a Voutilainen GMR with the dark dial I spot?
If so, is it the green or the graphite/carbon dial? In any case, a beauty. Many, many beauties.
Thats enough Tim...
Next year there will be no double booking my diary! Glad you all had a good night and great to see you and Janna, Andrew