I remember a Duality

with unpolished bevels in the lower part of the mainplate. I mean with the vibrations of the machine instead of polished or even softened. That was a "surprise" to me. I had an early Simplicity on the bench and I was rather shocked that the wheel train was the JLC original one, without any finishing. I understand that once a wheel has been plated, it is a pain to play with, but still... There were tiny scratches there and there, but I'd say regarding this that the standard at that time was to look through the standard magnification (eye piece). And it was looking great. But today, that'd be a fail IMO. Mainplate and gear train is an all-time fail, again, IMO.
And I don't thik his daughter was involved at that time.
I do agree on with you on the AdC pallet fork though.

Phillips Auction Indies: finishing irregularities

By: grandesonnerie : June 8th, 2025-19:09

Lot 77:Atelier de Chronométrie AdC20 notice the lack of finishing on the pallet fork No anglage on one side of the balance cock. Lot 28: Biver Carillon Tourbillon Notice the pitting on the baseplate and yet has perlage ...

Eagle eyes. Strange to see only one bevelled side on the balance cock.

By: hora12reborn : June 8th, 2025-19:16

On purpose or a big neglect? I went and looked at ADC’s Instagram page, it seems to be meant like this.

whatever it is, it does not look right

By: grandesonnerie : June 8th, 2025-19:35

When you claim perfection and charge so much, you better deliver. I’ve never have had a Patek without issues. It’s disappointing.

By: Besançon : June 8th, 2025-19:50

also there are CNC made watches

By: grandesonnerie : June 8th, 2025-20:02

If these makers don't even put the effort the finish properly what are you paying for?

Exactly! Dial design and movement layout

By: seabas132 : June 9th, 2025-02:14

is nice to applaud in watches, but unless there is some technical innovation (and for this I agree with FPJ) - the finish must be near perfection at these prices. Otherwise, I am feeling that these makers are raising prices just to achieve status rather t...

Totally agree!

By: amanico : June 10th, 2025-12:49

That side of the balance cock

By: Bruno.M1 : June 8th, 2025-20:32

Well I guess they preferred it to be like this Looking at the entire watch it’s just ABSOLUTELY 100% perfect When talking about perfect finishing most will refer to Philips dufour Look the the atelier de chronometrie Barcelona…. That second picture…. A du...

did you see the pallet fork in the first image??

By: grandesonnerie : June 8th, 2025-20:40

Its a raw unfinished part. As to the dufour question, no doubt that dufour's work is considerably better and when I say dufour I am referring to philippe dufour's work and not his daughter's work.

It is long and straight and a CNC could do the polishing easily on the anglage on the side of the balance cork. I'm not sure why there is no anglage on the AdC20 given it's very easy to do, but I do see brilliant hand-finishing (interior angles) across th...

I believe it is 60k euro not 36k

By: grandesonnerie : June 9th, 2025-02:59

Yes and no

By: Steyr : June 9th, 2025-05:38

I agree on the pallet fork that is not matching the level of efforts they did put on other parts. Could still be black polished and nicely finished but an anglage would have been welcome to match the rest of the movement. Regarding the balance cock, my un...

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