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I suspect it’s the other way around. The chamfers are machine cut and then hand-finished, but sometimes the machining marks still come through.
Machine Finished Bevels: Patek vs Others
One of the most obvious ways to distinguish a hand finished bevel from a machine finished one is its profile: if rounded, the anglage is most likely hand done. But with Patek it's different, their anglage is rounded off but still machine finished, so it m...
If you're referring to Patek's hobnail bezel...
The machine they're made on was hand made over 200 years ago.
The other way around...
meaning? No, I'm not being anything other than willing to learn.
"The expensive and laborious hand finishing stage is what is left out." <---also true of Patek!!! 😹😹😹
At least for low and midrange models.
This post isn't accurate...
The anglage on Patek Philippe movement parts (such as plates and bridges) are hand done with the assist of various tools (machines) that have a spinning effect. The spinning effect either cuts or polishes said part. Nearly all high anglage finishing from ...