This morning Mark Zuckerberg posted an announcement on Instagram about the end of META Fact Checks and changes to content censorship through META properties. The watch that he was wearing was a Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1 worth close to one million dollars. The Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1 is one of the few watches made by hand in almost its entirety.
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From the Editor: What is in Reality a Handmade Watch?
Many watches out there claim to be handmade but only a few can make that cut. The Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1 is one of them. With 95% of this timepiece —including the hairspring— made using only hand-operated tools and 6,000 hours of work —three years of man-hours—, the Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1 is in reality as handmade as a watch can get. A handmade watch requires to be made mostly by hand or utilizing processes that are hand operated, I’d say to at least 70%.
From the Editor: The Day I Had to Shoot a Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1 with an iPhone 11
As the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of WCL, I have countless stories of challenging watch photoshoots or photoshoots going wrong. What could be my worst nightmare as a watch photographer? That my lens would break inadvertently or that I would drop my camera right before the shoot? Well, neither of them. The worst and most unexpected thing to happen was to forget my camera’s memory cards 1,100 miles away right before meeting with Stephen Forsey in Mexico City.
Insider: Introducing the Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1. A Watch 95% Hand Made Using Hand-Operated Tools.
For the very first time we bring you live pictures before any other U.S. media outlet all taken with an iPhone 11 Pro Max straight from the SIAR 2019 in Mexico City. With 95% of this timepiece —including the hairspring— made using only hand-operated tools, one single timepiece requiring an extraordinary 6,000 hours work —equal to three years man-hours—,the new Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1 takes traditional watchmaking to a new unprecedented summit. Never before has a hand-made timepiece exhibited such a high level of workmanship and precision. This timepiece, unique in the history of watchmaking, is the fruit of a technical and human endeavor of epic proportions, enlisting extraordinary talents and setting the course for the future.
