The Very First Philippe Dufour Simplicity To Be Sold At Auction Next Week (And The Second, And The Third)

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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