It is hard to pin down exactly who the greatest living watchmaker is. Is is Francois-Paul Journe with his masterful and innovative complications? Is it Ludwig Oeschslin and his simplification of complications? Or maybe it’s Roger Smith, with his turn towards the hand-made? A case could be made for all three of the men above, but any discussion of such a question would certainly be incomplete without a mention of the name “Philippe Dufour.” And for the first time, an example of his world-famous Simplicity will hit the auction block. Actually three of them will.
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