The Hour — Issue XIV
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Philippe Dufour's Simplicity: The Case for Perfection at the Expense of Everything Else
There are perhaps three hundred Simplicity watches in existence. Philippe Dufour made each of them by hand. This fact alone is insufficient to explain what they are.
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The Patek Philippe 5270P: A Perpetual Calendar Chronograph for People Who Find Perpetual Calendar Chronographs Insufficient
The reference 5270 in platinum is the fullest expression of Patek's grand complication philosophy. It is also, at CHF 195,000, the most persuasive argument that some things cannot be priced rationally.
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A. Lange & Söhne's Datograph Is Still the Standard. Everything Else Is Catching Up.
Twenty-six years after its introduction, the Datograph Up/Down remains the most persuasive argument that German watchmaking operates by different rules entirely.