Horological Meandering

 

 

(pics: KV)

 

Cheers,

pplater.

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Kari's brought his dials in house (as has Beat Haldimann)

...but that must be a very recent development.  The 'anoraks' amongst us (count one here!) will be intrigued to see if there is any appreciable difference between the outsourced dials and the in-house product.

Out of curiosity, were Voutilainen and Haldimann using the same dial manufacturer?

 

Cheers,

pplater.

As of early July, Kari was still outsourcing to the Parmigiani dial subsidiary (sorry, I don't know their name, but their facility is in Fleurier, just across the road from the Parmigiani head offices).

Kari has amassed a large collection of hand-powered machinery in his basement, with the eventual intention of using some or all of it. Doubtless there is a rose engine included in there somewhere. So who knows?

Cheers
Tony P

Best,

Jed

NT

Peter's love of classical watchmaking I'm sure lead him to develop a series of guilloche hand done dials.
Here are a couple of my pics:

The Eolienne

Clos du Paris

Rose du Desert

 
This was a one off, sort of "mistake" which Peter actually liked, so he decided to put it in a 38mm YG Piccadilly.
Sorry for poor pic, taken during Basel '07 in desperate lighting...

G

Do you know the name of the pattern Tony?

That watch is superb. Would it be fair to describe those lugs as "Cornes de vache"?

 

Cheers,

pplater. 

I personally tried my hand on a rose machine and failed miserably.
I guess everything is possible with computers nowadays. This message has been edited by Allen on 2009-08-27 13:17:39

cheers

fernando