The fusée and chain is a centuries-old solution to timekeeping’s oldest challenge. It was through the discovery of the Richard Lange “Pour le Mérite” that I first learned about the fusée and chain mechanism. A few years back, I was sifting through our inventory when I came across the reference 260.028. Through the caseback at...

Openworked, skeletonized, open dial, skeleton dial – they’re used somewhat interchangeably but they don’t mean the same thing. The various terms used to describe a watch in which some part of the movement is visible or in which the dial is to some degree reduced or absent in order to show the dial side of...