With Halloween this week, it seems like a perfectly fitting time to talk about skeletons. Skeleton watches, that is. These are incredible timepieces, wherein a watch’s movement is cut away and sculpted to offer open-worked magnificence. From gears to wheels, bridges and other parts, watchmakers spend hours upon hours slimming pieces to their tiniest possible size so that only the minimum metal is visible. The minimized metal movement is then placed between two sapphire crystals for amazing see-through beauty. Additionally, the intricacy of the movement parts — with engravings and finishings — is incomparable.
But revealing the movement in all its glory is no easy feat. Stripping away the metal can take days, even weeks. And there is an art to achieving the proper balance of tiny and thin, as well as strong and workable. Additionally, most brands that produce skeletonized movements also engrave the parts for ultimate beauty. That engraving can take hundreds of hours. For these reasons, these mechanical wonders often are created in limited numbers and sometimes have a waiting list. But the artistry of a skeleton watch is worth the wait — even though they do not have bare-bones pricing. Skeleton watches are also worth their price. They are art on the wrist. Stop in and see our selection of chiseled and artistically finished skeleton watches.
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