One of many nice pleasures of video manufacturing goes again and revisiting initiatives years later, recalling how they got here collectively and reliving the photographs and enhancing decisions that add as much as the ultimate minimize. Beneath, I’ve curated three movies on impartial watchmakers that convey again fond manufacturing reminiscences, and which I believe are particular in their very own methods – owing to the gravitas of the topics, in addition to the time and entry they granted us.
Longtime HODINKEE readers have probably seen the items beneath, however I would wager many more recent readers probably haven’t. Whichever camp you might be in, I invite you to journey again in time to Le Solliat in 2013, Geneva in 2015, and the Isle of Man in 2016. I imagine these three movies maintain up as examples of a dedication to a selected means of going about one’s craft. As impartial watchmakers, Philippe Dufour, François-Paul Journe, and Roger Smith are kindred spirits – and but their processes, and the watches they make, are so very distinctive, every a direct reflection of their creators.
