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 happy.

You used up your second wish by asking that you never have to pay for a service again; and your bank manager was very happy.

For your third wish, your fairy watchmaker will provide you with the (AHCI or Independent) watch of your dreams. You can nominate the brand, the metal (or other material), the complication (if any) or combination of complications; in fact, you can fully spec this bespoke 'piece unique'.

Well, dear reader, what are you going to get from the fairy watchmaker???

Cheers,
pplater.

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

This message has been edited by patrickmaniac on 2012-07-06 01:38:24

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 skin

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the strap could eat the maker...

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
This message has been edited by Ares501 on 2012-07-06 06:15:43

Also like F.P. Journe and Laurent Ferrier

NT

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

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 triggers the mechanism that (a) impulses the large balance and (b) uses a hitt/miss mechanism to correct it's own time from the master balance.

...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 components moving at extremely high speeds.   Even with a slow 18k balance as the slave and a much slower balance as the master the time window is still incredibly small, and my guess is that it's not posible.

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

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 and the Jewish calendar.

...but will it run clockwise or counter-clockwise???

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

...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.

Polished, then very lightly brushed, platinum case at 39mm diameter. 
Recessed crown at 12:00 a la FP Journe Resonance. 
Lugs in the style of Urban Jurgensen.

'Sterile' off-white grand feu enamel dial.
Recessed, large sub-seconds dial at 6:00 with no indices.
Hand-painted Arabic numerals a la Breguet 5140 in deep, deep blue. 
Blue gold hour and minute hands, somewhere between Observatory and moon style. 
Needle-fine sub-seconds hand with slender 'counterbalance' tail bob. 

Massive balance wheel by Michel Navas and Enrico Babasini with adjustment weights of depleted uranium (thank you, DW). 
Straumann double hairspring.
Twin barrels.
'Secret' tourbillon executed by Beat Haldimann.
Secondes Mortes. 
A single, but deeply resonating, gong to sound once at precisely midday. 
Sapphires (not rubies) for jewels; black diamond tipped pallet-fork. 
Hand cut, hand flame-blued screws by Roger Smith.
White gold back plate in the English style engraved with a three dimensional 'memento mori' design by Kees Englebarts. 
Minimalist symmetrical black gold going train bridges; black-polished anchors. 
Exhibition crystal under an officer caseback 'signed' internally by the collaborators.

'Antiqued' royal blue custom strap in lined ostrich shin stitched with silk thread in matching colour by ABP; quick release pins. 
"That" crazy design buckle by Dufour. 

Box by Viscount Linley in curly Jarrah (waxed not polished), inlaid with the Eureka flag pattern in fossilised mammoth ivory and lined with ecru doeskin.

Lifetime free service warranty and insurance. 

Price by Richard and Maria Habring, paid anonymously by a mysterious benefactor. 

Delivery by a barefoot Uma Thurman in a backless silk Valentino gown (cut on the bias) over a magnum of 1945 Ch. Latour drunk from Baccarat stemware listening to Keith Jarrett play a commissioned composition on a Stuart grand piano at an otherwise empty "Noma" restaurant on an unseasonably warm summer's day.....

Cheers,
pplater. 

well done sir, well done indeed ; )

Much more detailed but we had somewhat similar thoughts:

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