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Watchmaking, a hybrid craft at Century

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For more than half a century, it has been necessary to invent a profession for which there is no training elsewhere than within the Century Manufacture in Bienne.

By Albert-J. de Buttes-LaCôte / TàG Press +41 news Agency
Article appeared in the JSH Since 1876 Magazine – Subscribe for CHF 18.76 / 2 issues

Is it a cutter or a polisher who, after many months of in-house training, will be able to hand-cover the sapphire case of a watch with several dozen facets? Facets whose faces and edges meet specific aesthetic requirements and measurements. Everything starts with a patented process that merges two blocks of sapphire until they are completely indivisible. The brand has made it unique in the world markets, ennobling year after year this material free of any kind of inclusions, whose hardness is second only to diamond. It is therefore necessary to work it with diamond tools and above all, with a mastery that requires starting over at the slightest deficiency. The result is magical, mysterious and… unphotographable.

 

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