Philippe Dufour Petite Sonnerie

Two Philippe Dufour timepieces: Grande & Petite sonnerie number 7, white gold 41 mm case Duality number 6, rose gold 37 mm case Do you have a preference ? Best, Emmanuel credit: @thedeadwatchsociety

Franck Muller and Philippe Dufour both exhibited grande et petite sonnerie wrstwatches at Basel 1992. Dufour painstakingly reverse-engineered and miniaturized a design by the Reymond bothers. The Reymonds were known for supplying rough clockwatch ebauches

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I would venture a guess that this will be a Sonnerie movement that is new to Patek. When the 5520P came out people were all surprised that an Alarm dual time watch was possible in a Pilot case. Well, this time the Calatrava(looks like in the pic) will hav

Phillips quoted George Daniels when announcing an exhibition in Geneva this May to pay tribute to independent watchmaking: “ Independence is the utmost importance in life. Without it you are subject to the whims of other people. You are pinned down to a p

I remember his his grande and petite sonnerie : what a stunning complications! I think that he reached the peak of complications and then he moved another goal, the best finishing level achievable by a watchmaker. I wish he would create more complications

I'm not sure why, but my watches and I have never all been in the same place at the same time before and, for various reasons, they are today. I thought I should mark the occasion, before winding everything up and setting the calendars, by taking a pictur

I guess that one wristwatch I regret not buying is the Datograph Perpetual, which came up on the pre-owned market a year or so ago at a quite attractive price -- but I wasn't in a position at that time to pull the trigger. Of course, there's the full rang

...which I bid on, but not enough. The litany of excuses follows the path that I entered an absentee bid, not expecting to be on the ground when the bidding was underway, but was actually changing planes in Frankfurt when the hammer fell -- as I watched i