An interesting discovery - Dufour and the V4?
I recently received my copy of "The Hands of TIme", a book celebrating the 25th anniversary of the AHCI. It is a wonderful "shopping guide". It has little tidbits about each of the members and a wonderful display of their work. Under each member's picture...
The concept for the V4 was created by Jean-Marc Ruchonnet
who is behind the Cabestan (or one of the people behind it, depending on your source). He then asked Dufour for his comments, which were apparently positive. TAG Heuer then picked it up and Dufour helped them realise the working watch somewhere along its ...
Ahh but there lies the mystery. What was Dufour's role I can only
surmise that it is on the technological side as the finishing of the watch is not "Dufourian". I am kind of surprised by this. I would have thought that many of the more "classical" masters would not be in favor of the belt driven movement. It is fascinat...
I believe later on he was roped in to help make it work
in the 3 or 4 years between concept and delivery TAG Heuer sought his help to make it work. I don't think the exact details were ever revealed. - SJX
He got called at the last minute before Basel at its launch because
the thing wouldn't work reliably. Other highly regarded independents around these here parts had tried and couldn't get it to work. Above has been posted more than a few times in the past years. See, Mitch, what you miss when you don't check in everyday a...
Thanks, Mitch!
Sounds like an interesting book. I am looking forward to learning more about the Daniels/Smith collaboration. What's been revealed thus far is quite intriguing. The Dufour-V4 connection (I think) has been mentioned somewhere here in one of the posts about...
Hi Daos - yes the Daniels/Smith project is going to be something special.
I do know that it will be a one off movement designed by Daniels. What is interesting is that the Millenium watch was based off an ETA movement with the co-axial added in. This is going to be a ground up movement. It will be certainly something special to...
when the V4 prototype was shown at Basel a few years back...
The story floating around was that Dufour had been pulled into the project rather last minute to get it running. And it was barely running reportedly; with something like 9 or 10 hours power reserve. Whether that story was exactly true or to what extent h...
It is known to me...
As I was directly impacted by that little maneuver, as I've written before in various threads on the subject. :-( TM
Why don't we give an assignment to Don?
Don, the moderator, shall interview Dufour to get the real story out. No more surmise or ... in future. Regards Ling