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Most beautiful I've ever seen
Apr 19, 2014,16:22 PM
Most beautiful dial I've ever seen- one of my very favorite watches, a very famous and important
original Breguet, No. 2807, picture taken from a major auction house, my apologies:
That is the most perfect dial ever made, IMHO.
The most beautiful watch I've ever seen is really, really hard. I like the old pieces.
This is one of my favorites, from the Beyer Museum in Zurich-
a rock crystal plate watch made by Rebillier for 1855 World Fair. I mistook it for a Breguet at first.
It's described in detail in the book by Reinhard Meis, Pocket Watches- From The Pendant Watch To The Tourbillon.
Somehow, it even has sapphire screws!
Old Girard Perregaux pieces from the mid 1900s, with raised chatons, arrow bridges, devil's tail cocks,
raised screw chatons, and spherical hairsprings are right up there for me too- these 2 make my jaw hit
the floor in the basement, I would practically kill to own one:
One of 5 of Mr. Dufour's clockwatches he made for Audemars Piaget. The flow of the bridges is magical, the finish, divine.
My favorite watches are the rarified clockwatches, and Mr. Dufour's here is the most beautiful ever designed, in my opinion:
There is one watch, but somehow, I lost my pictures of it. It haunts me. It was a silver fusee, American made,
for I believe, an exposition in the 1900s in Philiadelphia. It had a crystal dust cover, gold winding square chatons,
and a very ornate geometric bar style bridge layout. It blew my mind, but I can't find any of my images of it!
Those are some of my favorites I can find now. Harrison's H4 is right up there, as are George Daniels' 15 second
remontoire watch, anything by Albert Potter or Charles Frodsham, and Roger Smith's No. 2.
A parting gift- one more- I cannot go without mentioning this- Paul Gerber's additions to the L.E. Piaget ultrathin
minute repeater, first added to by Frank Muller.
For the sheer beauty of all complexity in watchmaking:
Credits for all pictures to those who took them, the internet, the PuristS, and many others.
Those are my little slices of horological heaven
-O