The project “Chronometer: the birth of Watch”

Famous watchmakers Robert Grebel, Stephen Forsey and Philip Dufour represent a new joint project "chronometer: the birth of Watch." It is aimed primarily at multiplication, preservation and transfer of expertise in watch making for future generations. Stephen Forsey, Robert Grebel and Philip Dufour have been united by total passion for timekeeping and convergence of views on this art.
Three masters agreed that today practice and some of the techniques of this hand watch making are in decline, losing, and gradually more and more being replaced by industrial technology. Masters could not remain indifferent to this and so they decided to implement the project. Its essence is to highlight the process of creating a watch from the time of development, and sketch to the finished chronometer. The project "Chronometer: the birth of Watch" will unfold in two directions: first techniques will be selected to create watches that require conservation as a legacy. The second step is the transfer of these techniques to a talented and young artist to embody and perpetuate them in a chronometer. For the second phase the organizers have chosen a French watchmaker named Michel Boulanger. He is a graduate of the repair of watches, as well as a teacher of the Paris School of chronometric art.
Boulanger has goal to make some unique pieces of wristwatch Haute Horlogerie by hand. In this of course, he will be supported by three organizers of the project. But this all does not end: then Boulanger should become not just a bearer of this skill, but must deliver it to the next heir.
Wrist watches Haute Horlogerie, born by this project, will be the best embodiment of the present techniques of chronometric excellence. These watches will have a tourbillon and three - hands mechanism with manual winding - a kind of combination of modern technology and tradition. Through the implementation of this unique project, Robert Grebel, Stephen Forsey and Philip Dufour expect not only to preserve the tradition of watch making, but also to share them with a greater number of colleagues.
For the public within the project "Chronometer: the birth of Watch" will be released on a series of 3D movies, which will be presented in detail all the techniques of watch making. It is planned to carry out training in the form of games. This is the most effective way to save this human art for future generations, because the media form of information today is increasingly gaining popularity. Also, the development of the project can be monitored on a special blog. Finally, the world round trip for a personal meeting with all the judges of the World.