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The Painstaking Art of Luxury Watchmaking

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The Swiss watch brand Arnold & Son builds all its own movements and tools in-house and from scratch. Each timepiece is a painstaking work of art that takes hours to come to life.

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Video by Zach Goldstein, Brian Schildhorn

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20 Comments

@luismontenegro3195 9 years ago

When I was younger I always wondered why my dad liked so much watches.
Now I understand.

@Verthias 8 years ago

The quality control methods they use are astounding.

@andrewc1036 6 years ago

Imagine how people did this 200 YEARS AGO

@brandysigmon9066 7 years ago

You see all of the state -of-the-art tools and machines , now think of making these watches with more simple tools like they used 150 years ago . Watchmaking has always required great skills.

@kaunas888 8 years ago

This is as honest and transparent a video of how a high end watch is actually made. Basically it is made industrially, and then hand finished with electric tools, and finally extensively tested. But, no it is not made by a 5th generation Swiss Master Craftsman high in the Swiss Alps painstakingly hand crafting every component like they did 200 years ago.

@abuilyaas2018 5 years ago

This is just simply phenomenal, micro engineering at its finest

@Chowmeister 9 years ago

I'd get sacked in 1hour lol

@hartantohartanto3460 9 years ago

this thing is more cool when being made than being used, it's like a high stake jigsaw puzzle

@Gio-nl7eg 9 years ago

Never heard of this brand but after watching this I'm extremely impressed they look incredible

@ayushpathania583 2 years ago

seriously true form of art. People nowdays are buying sneakers over these pure artmenship

@pero9254 8 years ago

Even crazier to think of all the complications that some watches have. Like the IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Calender, which keeps track of the time, day, date, month, and year, and has a power reserve and moon phase. Not to mention it accounts for months that have 30 or 31 days, and accounts for leap years, all done mechanically. Or the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Grand Complication which has all of that and a split second chronograph, all for the low price of roughly $700,000.

@pheeshankar4731 7 years ago

INSANE JUST INSANE ...QUALITY.. PRECISION.. JUST BEAUTIFUL...WOW !!!!...MUCH RESPECT !!!👍🇨🇦🇬🇧✌

@rajeshgodara6467 8 years ago

i will surely buy one when I get job , this kind of complex art and science make me proud that I have five fingers.

@kingk2405 5 years ago

Love companies with a unique goal : trying to deliver the best.
Quality not quantity.

@operasinger2126 7 years ago

Amazing. Something that small, delicate and complex can be accurate in time.

@SpikeShroom 8 years ago

I thought this was gonna be some bullshit cash grab video, but this is actually a respectable process (unlike that "high end" speaker assembly video). It actually takes a lot of time, effort and nice materials to build these. Is it worth $30,000 for one of these? Probably not that much. But it's impressive nonetheless.

@MartianDanTheMartianMan 9 years ago

very cool. I love how all the precision workers are licking their lips when they work, haha.

@cesarango01 2 years ago

Still one of the most amazing crafts I have seen.

@tecnoprofet 1 year ago

I'll never be able to afford such an expense. But I have full admiration and respect for the people behind such a project. Precision, engineering, patience.