Why buy a manufacture focused on making mechanical watches at a time when everyone told him this industry was dead?
There is a beautiful symbiosis between a man and his mechanical watch.
Then why do people buy the expensive mechanical watches?
Two years later the production was extended to mechanical watches, which quickly became the main business of the company.
It also had a low number of moving parts (51) compared to about 91 for mechanical watches.
A jewel in a mechanical watch is a small, shaped piece of a hard mineral.
Self-winding mechanical watches have long been around, but they stopped when at rest.
One reason is that demand has emerged for mechanical watches.
"They are mechanical watches and need to be wound by hand," he said.
This makes the 'ticking' sound characteristic of all mechanical watches.