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S01E12: The Renaud & Papi Diaspora: Greubel Forsey, the Grönefelds, and the French Sleeping Giant Almost Nobody Talks About
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It’s the late 1990s. Le Locle, Switzerland. A small workshop in a town most Americans
couldn’t find on a map.
Inside that workshop, working on grand complications... minute repeaters, tourbillons,
perpetual calendars... there are a handful of young watchmakers sitting at adjacent
benches. Some are in their twenties. Some are in their thirties. Most of them are broke. Not
one of them is famous.
In about twenty years, the watches built by the people in that one workshop will sell for the
price of a house. The price of three houses. The price of an apartment building.
And almost every brand you’d consider the names of modern independent watchmaking...
almost every single one... will trace its origin to that single room.
Keywords: Renaud & Papi, Patek, Rolex, Greubel Forsey, the Grönefelds, Pequignet