It had run through its initial funding without delivering a product to the watchmaker or Sony.
"You never talked to the watchmaker before--his world was one-foot square, " says Joseph C.
Adam earned a free trip to France, courtesy of the watchmaker, by winning a national clay-court tournament last month in Delray Beach.
Two certificates are offered at the NAIOSW: the Watch Encasing Technician Certificate which requires 640 hours of training over four months, and the Watchmaker Certificate which requires 3, 000 hours over two years.
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Aligned against the watchmaker are retailers and free-flow-of-information types like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who say Omega is using a law designed to control creative works to control the U.S. prices of manufactured products.
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Journe works out of a converted gas lamp factory on the rue de l'Arquebuse in Geneva--he's the only watchmaker in the city center.
"At some point, mathematics stops and the nose takes over, " explains the master watchmaker.
Potter is the only American watchmaker ever accepted as an equal by the great Genevan horologists, some of whom even considered Potter their superior, because of his flawless workmanship.
The brand also brought a watchmaker who gave demonstrations for the guests.
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To celebrate the opening, Vacheron is hosting a month-long American Heritage event at its new store, on Madison Avenue and 64th Street. (The store is the latest entry in what is becoming a veritable row-house of watchmaker shops along the avenue.) The Heritage event will put on public display notable historical watches and acquisition narratives from their owners.
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Still, ask five enthusiasts what the term "independent watchmaker" means and you'll get five different answers.
Yet the Daniels legacy is about more than a rags-to-riches story, his position as the pre-eminent watchmaker of his time and an ingenious inventor.
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The two-year Watchmaker program provides advanced education and training.
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Two things attracted him to the brand: it claimed to be Switzerland's oldest watchmaker and it had missed out on the technological revolution of quartz timers powered by batteries.
The Swiss luxury jewelry and watchmaker, founded in 1860, rose to fame in recent decades with a number of high-profile ventures including its partnership with Cannes Film Festival, where it uses the red carpet to display its works.
The RM 008 chronograph tourbillon (a stopwatch) was so complicated that only one master watchmaker, Fernand Simao, had the skills to put it together.
In this country the key task for a certified watchmaker is to maintain fine mechanical watches.
Constructed by London watchmaker John Jefferys, the watch turns out to be Harrison's breakthrough timepiece.
Nike the sneaker maker has made a mostly successful transition to Nike the clothing, sports equipment and watchmaker.
So it came as a surprise to connoisseurs recently when Patek Philippe, a smart Swiss watchmaker, announced that the company was testing silicon inside some of its luxury watches.
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Master watchmaker Richard Mille, who won the award in 2007, wryly suggested they give it to Journe automatically.
That's what watchmaker Jonathan Dillon told his family in the late 19th century.
"A watchmaker must be passionate, " says the youngest of the bunch, Candaux, 32, who may also be the most conservative.
Smithsonian officials invited a group of journalists to bear witness as a master watchmaker carefully opened Lincoln's watch to the inner workings.
It is the result of a collaboration of famed jeweler Harry Winston and watchmaker Greubel Forsey.
The decision upholds the right of manufacturers in this case, Swiss watchmaker Omega to use copyright laws to prevent U.S. retailers from selling goods they obtained overseas.
Philippe Dufour stands high up in the watchmaking pantheon, not as a brand, but an independent master watchmaker--just himself, an assistant or two, and a few machine and hand tools that would be instantly recognizable to a watchmaker 200 years ago.
The auction's highlight: a silver compteur militaire, made by famed French watchmaker Breguet in 1822, that belonged to Alexander I , emperor of Russia, and later, his nephew Constantine Nicholaievich .
Of the other 30 members, 16 named Daniels far more mentions than any other watchmaker.
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