Horological Meandering

Fancy expressing your own aesthetic creativity on a timepiece while still retaining the full warranty and factory service support? What appears to be a recognised customer desire for haute horlogerie timepieces is now also available a market segment below...  

I can write a lot but here where the avrg good taste is the highest per capita I don t need ,look at the pix,experience the shock then pls close yr browser and relax .i know internet treasures auch dark corners too.

Actually i consider the people here have very fine taste for watches so i shouldn t explain why those bamford items are so awful.

Those painted hands & over the spindles on the 146 are rather poor, and the original factory starburst blue dial so much better. TBH I wonder why Zenith see such workmanship as a valuable collaboration? I had a quick try on the customisation website - and... 

I have handled a few Bamford pieces but have never looked at them up close or with a loupe... you pictures really pick up all the details. Its a shame to be honest... I love the concept, but if a product rolls out which is not up to the Zenith star then i... 

is being made. I am assuming that Bamford are doing this work after the watch has been made ? Are they customising a completed watch or taking unfinished dials and hands and then adding them customised ? It looks and feels aftermarket to me.

Yours is a revealing look at the new products, and I hope it spurs Zenith and Bamford to revisit their standards for a consumer-phase product. Truthfully, the program should be structured like Alpina's system with BMW whereby Alpina, the customizer, creat...