Welcome to the Scottish Watches Podcast Episode 610! In today’s show, we’ll tell you about our side quest to Louis Vuitton’s manufacture while we were in Geneva. The most interactive factory tour we’ve been on where we got to try the various crafts like black polishing and enamel painting, plus seeing their skeleton automatons do some interesting things in various positions.

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We’re also bringing you the news of Girard Perregaux piece unique for the ELA foundation, which takes Rikki a step closer to his first GP. Venezianico can’t stop producing affordable marvels, now introducing their integrated bracelet Arsenale. Zodiac goes pre-SeaWolf with the reissue of the 36mm ref.691 Mechanical plus now is the time to sell your watches!

 Girard Perregaux Laureato 42 mm Eternity ELA.

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Thanks for the tips you guys gave me about where to go while I was on holiday in Paris.  In return, here is a brief rundown of what I did/thought about the few places I managed to visit while I was there.  Hope you enjoy!

During my short trip to Paris, I visited two locations.  One was the Breguet boutique and museum, the other was the Musée des Arts et Métiers.  

The breguet museum is indeed significantly smaller than the Musée Metier.  However, the breguet company has spend a significant amount of capital acquiring timepieces with hard to parallel provenance.  Unfortunately (I didn’t know this before I casually strolled into the boutique),  if you want to see the breguet museum, you need to make an appointment.  If you do make an appointment, you get a 1 on 1 tour of the upper floors of the boutique where all the timepieces are kept.  Fortunately for me, one of the employees took me on a much abbreviated tour (about 10 minutes) of the collection, and they had a variety of watches and wall clocks owned by various members of the Bonaparte family, other European royalty, as well as some historic tool clocks, such as naval clocks used for navigation.  I didn’t take any photos while I was there, but I did enjoy seeing the original time pieces and then seeing how the heritage of those designs were then carried through to the modern day collection.

In comparison, the Musée Metier had a much larger collection, though it should be noted the Metier really is a much larger museum focused on technology and engineering, not just horology.  If you do go, absolutely spend the 5€ on the little audio tour guide, it had a lot more information than was included on the collection placards.

They have a really cool collection of navigation tool, weights and measures, as well as a comprehensive progression of timekeeping technology from water clocks and sundials/nocturns up through modern watches and digital clocks.  I tried to take photos in a marginally systematic manner, so many of the images include the collection id number and the description placard.  Though there is probably more information that I missed, considering I don’t actually read or speak french.  My photos are here:

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There are also some old bicycles, cars, and airplanes included in the collection.  One very cool part of the exhibit was the Foucault Pendulum on the first floor.  For those unaware, it is a large pendulum swaying above a table with indicator markings inscribed.  As the earth rotates, the apparent motion is observed by the pendulum slowly changing its motion relative to the earth.

One other location in Paris I had explored briefly was the Samaritan luxury department store.  Not nearly as exciting or nerdy, but they have a whole floor dedicated to luxury watch brands with several very bored looking employees milling about the floor.  It is inside a rather lovely old building:

All the best,

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