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Collaborations, no matter the context, are fraught with the potential of being, more often than not a curious reduction in the individual talents involved. Instead of following the apparent logic that it may be ‘twice as good’ as the individual party’s work, it’s commonly quite the opposite. Half as good, if that. And consequently, neither party wins. Allow me to present “Cruisin'” by Huey Lewis & Gwyneth Paltrow as Item A for the prosecution. Sometimes, though, against the odds, two parties can come together and the effect is not a doubling, or a redoubling of the artistic life forces, but an exponential fireworks display of magic. That’s how I’d describe indie watchmaking juggernauts H. Moser & Cie. and MB&F helmsmen Edouard Meylan and Maximilian Büsser’s H. Moser x MB&F Endeavour Cylindrical Tourbillon and MB&F x H. Moser LM101. How did this creative joint venture come about? Well, as Büsser explains, “When I called Edouard to tell him that I wanted to collaborate on a creation, I mentioned that I really liked the double balance-spring, the Moser fumé dials and the Concept watch series. Edouard immediately told me that he would let me borrow these features, but on condition that he…

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Entire nations forced under lockdown, airlines teetering on the brink of collapse, fistfights erupting over rolls of toilet paper … Coronavirus has rocked the planet and God knows what life will be like when ‘normality’ resumes. It’s unlikely to be normal as we knew it, that’s for sure. In such desperate times, it may seem crass to speculate on what COV-19 will do to the watch market. But as a website that views life through a watch-centric lens, we’re unapologetically going right there. If nothing else, a little glimmer of a silver lining may be just what you need right now. Here’s one thing we all know: any punter looking to buy a steel sports watch by Rolex, Patek Philippe or Audemars Piguet that is not regularly spending heavy with a retailer faces a grim waiting list (for example, this guy had to wait two years for his 5711. And he was a lucky one). But will the pandemic make it easier for you to buy a similarly in-demand timepiece by removing one of the hungriest buying markets? Right now, many luxury watch boutiques are eerily quiet. That’s because the investment bank Jefferies estimates that Chinese buyers accounted for 40…

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