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The quality of his work depends on the care he puts into this operation: creating areas of shade is only possible with an impeccably polished cutting surface. It takes years of practice to learn to write on gold, steel, or platinum with the burin.
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This centuries-old art had disappeared for over a generation when one of the Manufacture’s watchmakers resolved to rediscover its secrets in 1994. Nonetheless, it took several years before the first pictorial works could once again adorn the Reverso, as enameling is quite simply where painting meets alchemy. One value sums up this art: patience. The three enamel miniaturists now working in the Manufacture have mastered all the traditional techniques: grand feu, champlevé, translucent, and cloisonné. Still driven by the same thirst for new discoveries, they have recently developed an exclusive process, which gives the subject extraordinary depth. Just slightly tilting a miniature under any source of light will reveal a range of color variations and open up completely unsuspected perspectives and nuances.
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This centuries-old art had disappeared for over a generation when one of the Manufacture’s watchmakers resolved to rediscover its secrets in 1994. Nonetheless, it took several years before the first pictorial works could once again adorn the Reverso, as enameling is quite simply where painting meets alchemy. One value sums up this art: patience. The three enamel miniaturists now working in the Manufacture have mastered all the traditional techniques: grand feu, champlevé, translucent, and cloisonné. Still driven by the same thirst for new discoveries, they have recently developed an exclusive process, which gives the subject extraordinary depth. Just slightly tilting a miniature under any source of light will reveal a range of color variations and open up completely unsuspected perspectives and nuances.
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This centuries-old art had disappeared for over a generation when one of the Manufacture’s watchmakers resolved to rediscover its secrets in 1994. Nonetheless, it took several years before the first pictorial works could once again adorn the Reverso, as enameling is quite simply where painting meets alchemy. One value sums up this art: patience. The three enamel miniaturists now working in the Manufacture have mastered all the traditional techniques: grand feu, champlevé, translucent, and cloisonné. Still driven by the same thirst for new discoveries, they have recently developed an exclusive process, which gives the subject extraordinary depth. Just slightly tilting a miniature under any source of light will reveal a range of color variations and open up completely unsuspected perspectives and nuances.
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