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Louis Erard has dropped a second, limited edition entry into its artisan series, that focuses on offering traditionally high-end crafts at more accessible prices, with the Excellence Guilloché Main.
The guilloché Trompe l’oeil (or optical illusion) pattern on the dial is created at Swiss dial maker, Fehr, using a 100-year-old rose engine lathe, a machine controlled using hand and eye by an operator using with a series a cams, feeler, cranks and chisels, a craft which is a mixture of dexterity and experience.
Each of the 99 dials in the series are produced by the same artisan, helping them develop a vital rhythm when creating the unique pattern. As each one takes several hours to complete, engine-turned dials are traditionally used mainly at the higher end of the market by watchmakers such as Roger Smith.