Previously, I posted some memories part 1: click here
Here is part 2.....
LUCeum
Lunar One
1860 L.U. Chopard watch
Gold Gold Gold! I can't live without gold.........
Very few true 'manufactures' actually smelt their own gold for the cases......Chopard and Rolex.
Hot Hot Hot!
There you are -- four kilos of abso-bloody-lutely wonderful gold!
Lets add it to the pile....
Swarf and machining 'waste'.....er...NOT. Will be worth a bob or two when recycled.
Patrick showing the spring-bar for the lugs of a 2010 novelty watch
It is their 150th Anniversary......oooh the stuff I could talk about....but they would have to shoot me. And all Swiss men are in the armed forces part-time...with guns!
Cheaper swarf and machining waste
Still, a few tons of waste metal will be valuable...remember Green Footprint.
Each year, the graduates of Chopard Watchmaking School sign the poster in all languages of their native coiuntries. I saw Asian languages too.
The Bee-Man himself. This is the chap who engraves 42 bees (or NOT) on the case backs of the top-end LUC watches. His range is 41 - 45 bees, with a mode of 42.
Thanks for watch-ing,
MTF