Jewellery historian Vivienne Becker extolls the virtue and virtuosity of jewellery watches, the ultimate expression of the preciousness of time.
I have said it before, I know, but when it comes to watches and writing about them, it’s still beauty before brains for me. A year or so on from my stint as a judge at the prestigious GPHG, (Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, where I learnt so much) I still tend to drift off, into daydreams, during explanations of the intricacies of horological marvels.
Although I can say, with no small amount of pride, that I do now get that it’s all about absolute precision, balancing the vagaries of gravity, adjusting to time zones, tracking the moon phases, counting nano-seconds, measuring ocean depths, and so much more than I…
