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Chronometric Masterpiece

Ferdinand Berthoud’s latest is a watch that is directly inspired by a famous marine clock creation of the master watchmaker himself, simply catalogued at the French Museum of Arts and Trades as the Number Six. The watchmaking prowess that he demonstrated with the Number Six is the very same timepiece that granted him the designation of Watchmaker to the King and Navy of France in 1770.

Of course, one of the first things

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