Horological Meandering

In June 2022, I happened to visit Vincent Deprez and I was so impressed by his work that I felt compelled to share his work on Deprez is a young and gifted artisan (only in his 30s) and was a prodigy who started working for Vacheron Constantin when he wa...  

Love the look, very clean. The case leaves some to be desired, but this tends to be common with new startups. Thanks for sharing

When you see how the back is joined to the main body, you'd be impressed. It's not a simple screw on case back. It's a case back that would be made with 100+ year old techniques, before screwed case backs were popular (which really are thanks to CNC machi... 

The shape overall gives me iwc Portuguese FA jones vibes. Lugs sorta simple. He needs to channel his inner VC for some lugs! Will be nice to see future offerings here

I really hope to meet him at some point and see his masterpiece

And then when you realize there's no big CNC machine, it's all made using small tools, no computerized big machines, that's when you think "oh my goodness, how does he do that?"

But I think the biggest one is the clutter. It's super cool to see the entire gear train, mainspring, balance, etc, but it becomes a bit much to look at. The actual dial on the Breguet is even smaller proportionally than the dial on this Deprez. Not to me... 

Yes. The Breguet La Tradition series often come with these tiny dials. They ought be a bit bigger.

Not for their hoarding wealth, dubious morality, or any of the usual stuff. He was just annoyed that despite having all that wealth, the vast majority of "0.1%ers" still manage to have awful taste 😂 Somebody needs to buy those La Traditions! And I agree, ...