How do watchmakers decide how a movement should look? The subject of movement finishing is one that gets a lot of discussion (especially today, when it’s easier than ever to see images of finely finished, not so finely finished, and poorly finished watches) but the specific subject of movement design doesn’t as a rule. A...

The final series of the Balancier Contemporain series heralds a sea change at Greubel Forsey. Greubel Forsey is known for many things – for those of us who are fans of slightly mad-scientist technical experimentation in pushing the boundaries of precision in mechanical timekeeping, it’s their inclined balance, multi-axis, and high speed tourbillons that have...