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In late March of this year, the watch world was promised something new. Not simply a new collection or an update to a classic model – a huge number of which were to come from many of the world s best maisons during the week-long Watches & Wonders showcase a fortnight later – but an innovation by a Swiss watchmaker that was described as having the potential to turn the world of watch mechanics on its head.
The watchmaker in question is Frederique Constant – a brand set up by Peter and Aletta Stas in Geneva in 1988 and named after each of their great-grandparents, with the aim of selling accessibly priced Swiss-made watches, often made with in-house movements, and with a progressive approach to both mechanics and design. And the watch is the Slimline Monolithic Manufacture: far from merely an updated design, it features a new and incredibly high-tech movement, the FC-810, which all but tears up the rulebook on mechanical watchmaking. Or so it claims.
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