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>>9846098
>>9846324
Well, almost. They are "hand finished" and not completely btw.

Black polishing one single bridge can take a full day, geneva striping a medium sized plate wolud take even a week,and that's before anglage, perlage, engraved writing, dusting...

Also, you have to account material reasearch, caliber developping, degree of complication in the movement, prime material waste, etc...

Just a very, very few watchmakers go into a total hand made process; it's extremely slow and fatigating.

They are so expensive because there is no other way to achive that kind of finishing but under the pacient hands of a true artist and this fellas are dedicated to produce an almost perfect excersice of unchallenged and beautiful engineering.

>Pic related, the unbelievable amount of work put on the swan-neck regulator and hand engraved balance wheel's bridge on my Lange.

Both pieces are less than 6mm long and the engraver spends lmost a whole work day to make the engraving, barely visible in my bad taken pic; this means he makes aroun 25 per month. You do the math.