The architecture of the hours

In high watchmaking, in addition to the movements, aesthetics also discovers increasingly daring forms
The architecture of the hours
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Technical and aesthetic virtuosity entrusted to the Savoir-Faire of the watchmas. The excellence of the time, which goes beyond the indication of hour, minutes and seconds, to perform in what in the sector are called complications, that is, all additional features: from the chronograph to time zones, to calendars; Tourbillon, lunar phases, minutes repetitions, just to name a few. Any additional function requires further components and gears, which makes the movement more complicated: these functions are distinguished in complications and great complications, the latter are more elaborate. Some are more appreciated than others, but all tell talents and become witnesses of the continuous research by the manufactures that give us back examples, increasingly sophisticated, of engineering applied to time. In high watchmaking, in addition to the movements, the aesthetic component also discovers increasingly daring and creative forms of expression, where daring sometimes also means challenging architectural rules.

In high watchmaking, in addition to the movements, the aesthetic component also discovers increasingly daring and creative forms of expression, where daring sometimes also means challenging architectural rules. The result are timepieces whose beauty goes beyond the traditional canons of watchmaking to tell stories also in this case complicated. Here are works of art capable of giving the unexpected.

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