Watched and wondered

 Last Friday until Sunday, most of us stayed in Geneva to marvel at some lovely watches. We started off by stopping over at Time to Watches, a micro brand watch event with some very unique pieces. 

Keaton

After a nice lunch in Geneva old town, we hopped over to AHCI, the independents watch event. Here is were the real horology lies, and where you get the opportunity to meet the master minds behind the master works. 

Lederer 

Moving on, still on the same day by the way, we went for a gander at Cronipolis, yet another watch event. Some more lovely watches that you don’t get to see very often.

Sexy time with penguins

Now, us being pretty exhausted from watches, needing a break, we hit the streets for a good evening. Filled ourselves with a Brazilian barbecue, nectar of the Gods. 

The boys 

The night didn’t stop there, but unfortunately that will remain off the blog, anyways I digress.

Now on Saturday, we hit up the big boy, and go visit Watches and Wonders. Way saw way too many watches to talk about here. So I will just mention what stood out the most. We were lucky enough to get a meeting with Armin Strom in the press room. They unveiled to us their new 12:59 any time watch. An unequalled marvel, containing a minute repeater with the Westminster chime and double balance in resonance. All put into a lovely sized titanium case.

Voila

Now back to school, been a long week here for us. At workshop 1, myself, Bernd, Joan and Louis are making progress on the hairsprings, but those coils are really testing our patience. 

Gary is making some good headway on the production of lovely little case for a 7001.

At the start

Where he’s at now

The new student Nick has now started to learn the machines, as always starting with the drilling press.

That’s it for this week, until next time!