Breguet: Guilloche Dials explained by Jeff Kingston
Jeff Kingston visits the guilloche dial workshop at Breguet in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland.
Dial making is one of watchmaking greatest specialties in the history of watchmaking and guilloche dials are a specialty within that specialty. To watch it being practiced, is to take yourself back 200 years in time, because the methods and the machines being used have their routes back that far. It was Abraham Louis Breguet himself and his workshops in Paris two centuries ago, who introduced guilloche dials to watches. The guilloche dial room at Breguet has been described as a manufacture inside the manufacture. The machines are as manual as it gets. All of the work is done by hand. Enjoy this video and learn more about the making of guilloche dials.
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i would love to spend a day at the Breguet factory just watching these craftsmen at work. I’m in awe. there’s another vid of a woman at the factory winding a spring my hand using two tweezers and a microscope that blew my mind
Jeff Kingston explains the Art of Guilloche' in a precise manner. Alluding to the Breguet factory, with 200 year old Rose Engines, gives this Art a sense of History, and Depth...
Simply stunning dial and craftsmanship! Tradition.
Magnificent hand-work, which makes every Masterpiece!😍👌❤️👍
Nice video, thanks for sharing!
I suspect there would be a market for pre-made guilloche watch dial blanks for small watchmakers to purchase.
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Breguet didn't introduce guilloche to watches, but he did make them popular.
I used to do quite a bit of metal working on a lathe. I’d love to mess with a rose engine lathe some time. Apparently, rose engine lathes haven’t been made for several decades now and parts for them are hard to come by.
@thejasonrk
6 жыл бұрын
there are well made modern machines that are designed like the old ones. you can also build your own, many watch makers will make their own tools as well. check out Lindow and ornementalroseengine dot com
@jumboJetPilot
6 жыл бұрын
jas kay Awesome! I’ll go check your website out.
@georginafarmer338
4 жыл бұрын
jason kitchen is p pop pop
@georginafarmer338
4 жыл бұрын
I’m not a good k
"those bits of gold are saved" gee wiz
So Breguet has finally broken free from outsourcing their guilloche dial works to Metalem?
@oxysoxos
5 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with giving certain things to specialized professionals. Several watchmanufacturers have their dials made by Metalem.
Why such a process could not be done by machines or robots? Would be way easier and less expensive over time.
@andrewpearce2562
3 жыл бұрын
Watchmaking is all about the artisan art. If you want the most effective time-teller, buy a $10 Casio.
why don't they cnc it these days :)
@omar10213245
Жыл бұрын
why don't YOU cnc it?
1:42 made me laugh out loud. The narrator says "... for one man to do the entire dial" and a woman immediately turns around to glare at him