Does China have haute horological long standing makers
justpen
Given that the first recorded escarpments were invented and used in China, and the enormity of the continual Chinese history of clock making, I would like to ask if China has any;
* Long standing watch making houses that are still in production and
* If they have a heritage equal to, or even possibly longer than the German makers, or the French horologists that fled to Switzerland during the Revolution?
* Who are they, and
* Any photos of any of their fine pieces.
Kindest regards,
Jack
This message has been edited by MTF on 2009-05-25 20:20:03
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MTF May 24th, 2009-05:44
4 No-s No No No and ....er......No. Sorry, Jack. No continuity. No modern innovation. No haute horlogerie in-country right now. For various reasons: political, ideological and practical. But as Dr Cologni mentioned...maybe in a few decades click here Dr Franco C...
justpen May 24th, 2009-07:30
Is there then, a Chinese maker of crappy watches that has been in business for 200 years? Hi MTF, Thanks for your reply. I think..... although I am not sure..... but I think that your answer..... is in the negative? I can not understand, and can not handle ambiguity, I need you to be more specific But apart from that, I read your reference to ...
MTF May 24th, 2009-11:37
The keywords are "long time"...... Jack, "Love you long time".....? The answer to your exact question is "No"... no chinese watch making company today has been in business for 200 years. There must be watch manufacturing history in China for a century or more because Bovet used to make wat...
justpen May 24th, 2009-17:41
Thanks MTF.... Thanks MTF, So what you are saying is that the oldest continous watch making company is The Shanghai Watch company and ti only goes back to 1955. That is actually amazing that a culture so continuous could have a vacuum of such a commodity. I can understa...
MTF May 25th, 2009-05:21
The real BIG BANG watch in China..... Jack, I read somewhere that rare handmade 1956 Shanghai prototypes of the Heping (Peace) and Dong Fang Hong (East is Red) models are now sought after by collectors.They were "similar" to a Swiss movement. Rumour has it that only 12 of the first 100 pieces...
justpen May 25th, 2009-05:43
Does that mean the Hublot Big Bang I like your Big Bang joke.... does that mean the Hublot Big Bang is a CCG When you finish with China, I will start on India Many thanks for the info... at an error factor of 120 seconds I can see why the European watches did well. May be candles were not ...
BDLJ May 25th, 2009-16:28
Nearly everyone imports watches... ...for the military. Where did Italy get it's watches from, they have a fine industrial history. Where did England get (a lot) their WWW watches from? The Swiss dominated mass-manufacture watches for export, so why would China not import them. No differen...
G99 May 25th, 2009-12:59
the beijing watch company are doing some nice pieces Z3 had some lovely enamelled dial watches by them with 18 jewel handwind movements and gold cases. dont know when they started, Jon will know. in a little defence of the chinese watch industry, the Sea-gull ST19 is actually a pretty good hand wind chrono,...
mrsnak May 25th, 2009-19:45
Seagull has been around since 1955 And is producing some solid movements today. This 2504 automatic is in the new Timex. I have one. It keeps to +- 5 seconds a day....
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