While I have the utmost respect and admiration for the fabricating skills and ingenuity employed, building every component “aside from the movement” is akin to building a car ‘aside from the engine and transmission’.
For a soup-to-nuts breakdown, seek out ‘Watchmaking’ by horological legend George Daniels
> "After the first field watch that I built, I was going to make a second one and sort of needed a name for that. And, a little tongue and cheek, I named it the 255, which was the amount that my credit score had dropped since I invested everything."
While I have the utmost respect and admiration for the fabricating skills and ingenuity employed, building every component “aside from the movement” is akin to building a car ‘aside from the engine and transmission’.
For a soup-to-nuts breakdown, seek out ‘Watchmaking’ by horological legend George Daniels
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Daniels_(watchmaker)
On the other side a lot of major watch brands use movements manufactured by other companies like this guy does.
I am watching the linked documentary about that dude. Super interesting!
I find the fact that he also build the CNC machine to manufacture the watches in the first even more impressive.
Direct link to documentary: https://youtu.be/FdT94gXsyoc (12:45 mins)
> "After the first field watch that I built, I was going to make a second one and sort of needed a name for that. And, a little tongue and cheek, I named it the 255, which was the amount that my credit score had dropped since I invested everything."