Independents

...who will grant you three wishes. You used up your first wish by asking that all traces of [brand name deleted] watches be wiped from the face of the Earth (or the bottom of the sea, or the moon, or wherever else they got those dials); and you were very... 

1) MBF 2) All Sapphire case 3) 10 day power reserve, skeleton gyro tourbi, perpectual calender, minute repeater and not round shape. You did ask for a wish list. cheers PAt

Choice would be Dufour Grande et Petite sonnerie ( but with a more silent regulator system), tourbillon on the back, dead seconds indicated by a central seconds hand, inline perpetual calendar with a large moon phase display.

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Volker had been raising the cows that are being used to make the leather straps. He has actually been living off the same cow as food, to ensure that his entire life is sustained using the same watch making philosophy. eat the cow, drink the milk, use the... 

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the strap could eat the maker... Magnus

Alex, can he make two please? Michael

like Mo's (with my birth star chart not Mo's ) + GS reverse face of watch Digitale Thank you fairy! Best Damjan

Also like F.P. Journe and Laurent Ferrier

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Voutilainen Decimal Repeater in Titanium, Black Dial, Blued Hands and Blued Arabic Numbers. S

I want a watch that applies the principles of the Shortt master clock, with a huge, high-inertia balance that keeps the master time and a smaller balance that indicates the time via a classic train. The smaller balance has a 10s countdown timer that trigg... 

...but is it do-able without the pendula? "Calling David Walter". Cheers, pplater.

The key design parameter is the duration and phasing of the time window when the impulsing and synchronisation have to happen. The Shortt and Woodward clocks work because the window is long enough for everything to happen in phase without having to have c... 

...but I do know it would have to be a joint effort from Dufour and Voultilainen with at least a gyro tourbillon. Emil

Which, at least as of a decade requires the assistance of FP Journe to implement, but build it around the recent DeBethune dead-second tourbillon. The watch will only be 3 hands but the clock will be a perpetual calendar for both the Gregorian calendar an... 

...but will it run clockwise or counter-clockwise??? :-) [IMG]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa56/pplater/Frommilechaidotcom.jpg[/IMG] Cheers, pplater. [pic from milechaidotcom] ...  

make the clock have a face on each side, driven by the same pinion! a

...with a custom engraving on the movement in the shape of a dragon (my birth sign) and the words "Slaynt Vie" (Manx Gaelic for "good health," like "cheers" in English). :-) A girl can dream! Cheers, Daos

So this is the watch which the 'fairy watchmaker' will be asked to produce: Design by George Daniels.  Overall execution and regulation by Kari Voutilainen. Tolerances, black polishing, anglage (such as there is) and final finish by Philippe Dufour. Polis... 

well done sir, well done indeed ; )

Much more detailed but we had somewhat similar thoughts: - FPJ to conceive and design the movement - KV to effect, regulate and ultimately to case up - RS to frost, PD to do the polishing and finishing on the edges, angles and escape wheel

:) Time only (perhaps with date), or perpetual, or repeater with P&GS. Each would bring a balance of form and function involving a degree of compromise, but I think I generally wouldn't mind where the compromise was made provided the watch was in one ... 

park your car? Cheers Damjan

The car is a Ferrari 250 GT SWB 'California' in black with cherry red leather interior, Nardi wheel and high octane leaded fuel. The insurance is restricted to one driver only and Uma fills the passenger seat. Besides, anyone who has seen "Ferris Bueller'... 

...it is an M&S watch... Sorry, probably only those n the UK will have any chance with this one.. Gary

all watchmaking workshops for good - is there anything worth following such a piece? I noticed that this watch does not contain any modern, freaky materials nor would it necessarily have to rely on any CNC-made parts. It could well be a masterpiece of man... 

As a known champion of the Independents, and as an aesthete par excellence, you must share with us your wish... Cheers, pplater.

I'd be very unhappy after the occurrence of your first assumption. I feel that assumption nr 2 is irrelevant when choosing once dream watch. When and if I get to the 3rd, i'd take plenty of time to allow myself to dream and embark on a loooong tour of AHC... 

Only one brand was wiped from the face of the Earth by that first wish, and that brand was [brand name deleted]. You may now go to the fairy watchmaker in confidence! Cheers, pplater.

You cannot be serious PPlater. Your watch sounds like a long shopping list. Being too greedy can be a recipe for disaster, you know. I'll settle for something more humble and certainly more balanced. Urban Jurgensen's latest manual chronometer with detent... 

then I make my own in my own way! Cheers, Francois

I will not give him any idea, any wish. What I expect from him/her is a surprising result, a new concept and fresh ideas! Fx

The watchmaking independent should avoid pandering to the tastes of his customers who may require or demand "a little more of this and a little less of that" for a unique, custom-made or personalized watch - and then claiming to have played a modest but d... 

If I see a painting I like, then I hang it on my wall and admire the artists work and my only input might be which frame and where it is hung. If I pay as much as a sportscar for a watch, then like the car I would like to choose the colour (hmmm... orange... 

...I have one piece coming soon that has some of my desired bespoke attributes (that I can't talk about) and a second piece in joint design that has some of the rest (that I also can't talk about). That takes a lot of my desired fairy watchmaker attribute... 

Short sweet simple...reserved for the vernacularly and horologically challenged. Best, Horo

Just the skill, talent and patience (not to mention the time off and financial support...) to be able to make one at that level myself.