Independents

Among the independents whose creations I discovered at AHCI in April 2023, Flaux was one of the most surprising. His Homage to Al-Jazira , displays time with a digital hour disc and a minutes hand. But it also adds two unique features: A perforated hour-s...  

I’m always curious to see new execution, interesting dial side displays. There is a lot going on here, but it does seem to pull together nicely in my opinion. Where is his price point? How is positioning himself? Thanks for sharing.

JMF focuses on artistic mechanics which he explores in different formats from those of the watchmaking tradition. His creations are often automatons and don't necessarily have a time indication or watchmaking complication. But he defines himself as a watc...  

Good to see and I hope it's well received. The Islamic art is particularly cool and as notable as the horology.

And I completely agree regarding the islamic art. Thanks for looking.

so I guess it had to be there. And I personally like it. I see it as a kind of refined and toned down fantasy. I first saw it as an eccentric curiosity, but ended up finding it really nice.

The price is high indeed.

Not really for me though.

...but the engraving is beautiful, the painting beautiful, the logo is great, etc. Wouldn't be my daily driver but I like it : )

Thanks for looking.

Has a lot of potential to do great things, one of his creations Source: Google Images ...  

this is a very interesting execution and good hand-finishing. The price is very reasonable for such level of finishing.

But it’s a steel watch and most of the movement is out of sight (the mechanical part of the movement being the tinier and harder to finish), so I would say that the price has to be reasonable (just a personal feeling, I may be wrong of course). Than...