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Let me voice my negative opinion: To me it looks worthy of a hobby, but to praise this as something exceptional it's kind of overstretch. The time required is

Let me voice my negative opinion: To me it looks worthy of a hobby, but to praise this as something exceptional it's kind of overstretch. The time required is very long to make the pieces by hand, but I feel any sharp person could do it. Nothing groundbreaking. So I don't understand people that find this fascinating, inspirational. Just buy a usual watch, and it will have the same pieces. It's cool that he makes new designs, however make a good market out of that and the chinese will do it too, at better prices.

dklsafhjskljfl 8y ago
"i could have done that" "but you didnt"
- Antonio123123 8y ago
  Why would I manually do the pieces of a clockwork? It's been done manually countless times. Maybe If I would be in metallurgic industry it would make sense to do it as an exercise.
  - dklsafhjskljfl 8y ago
    "i could have done that" "but you didnt"
CodeArtisan 8y ago
That guy is a machinist but also a smith, an engineer, an artist,... he is a true artisan that live from his craft.
orbifold 8y ago
If you buy such a watch, you also buy a story. A single person producing a decently complicated watch from scratch is a pretty good story to tell. I image there are enough people in the world with the kind of disposable income required to buy such a watch, so he will have a pretty good business regardless of Chinese copycats.
- Antonio123123 8y ago
  Well I am not sure. It's a good story to tell if the person is someone important in the community that has for example written important books or invented something that is useful. If it's just worker-bee man-hours I guess it would be better value-for-money to buy a seiko and tell the story of the factory and how it's made using such complicated processes and optimizations (not sure assumption about seiko factory using complicated processes is right).
  - dagw 8y ago
    not sure assumption about seiko factory using complicated processes is right Depends on the Seiko. Seiko makes and has made a large number of complicated and historically interesting watches and movements with a story, but your average Seiko won't have that. If you want a cheap mechanical watch that's a historical 'first' and has an interesting watchmaking story to tell in terms of processes and optimization, get a Swatch Sistem51. It's the first automatic movement that is simple enough and has few enough parts to be mass produced entirely by robot. Of course if that's a 'good' story to tell or not is very much up for debate.

dklsafhjskljfl 8y ago

"i could have done that" "but you didnt"

Antonio123123 8y ago
Why would I manually do the pieces of a clockwork? It's been done manually countless times. Maybe If I would be in metallurgic industry it would make sense to do it as an exercise.
- dklsafhjskljfl 8y ago
  "i could have done that" "but you didnt"

CodeArtisan 8y ago

That guy is a machinist but also a smith, an engineer, an artist,... he is a true artisan that live from his craft.

orbifold 8y ago

If you buy such a watch, you also buy a story. A single person producing a decently complicated watch from scratch is a pretty good story to tell. I image there are enough people in the world with the kind of disposable income required to buy such a watch, so he will have a pretty good business regardless of Chinese copycats.

Antonio123123 8y ago
Well I am not sure. It's a good story to tell if the person is someone important in the community that has for example written important books or invented something that is useful. If it's just worker-bee man-hours I guess it would be better value-for-money to buy a seiko and tell the story of the factory and how it's made using such complicated processes and optimizations (not sure assumption about seiko factory using complicated processes is right).
- dagw 8y ago
  not sure assumption about seiko factory using complicated processes is right Depends on the Seiko. Seiko makes and has made a large number of complicated and historically interesting watches and movements with a story, but your average Seiko won't have that. If you want a cheap mechanical watch that's a historical 'first' and has an interesting watchmaking story to tell in terms of processes and optimization, get a Swatch Sistem51. It's the first automatic movement that is simple enough and has few enough parts to be mass produced entirely by robot. Of course if that's a 'good' story to tell or not is very much up for debate.