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OK, this is what you need to understand about Greubel Forsey. In the realm of ultra high-end watchmaking, it is largely unrivaled for three reasons. The first is that technically the watches express an incredible horological authenticity.

What do I mean by this? It’s simple. Everything that the geniuses who are Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have pursued — from inclined escapements and balance wheels to fast rotating tourbillon cages and multiple axis tourbillon cages with inclined balance wheels, to two inclined balance wheels with rates averaged by a differential mechanism, to constant force devices — are for one reason. That is to further the fundamental horological pursuit of accuracy in a wristwatch. This is exactly the same goal as all the greatest watchmakers of the

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