NEW LOUIS BOLLE LUXURY Watch RARE gold CRESCENT

Louis Bolle Gents Automatic Retrograde Power Reserve Black Leather Strap/Black Dial

Enjoy exquisite style and functionality as you gaze upon this incredible automatic design with a visible balance window

The attraction doesn’t end there, as the elaborate mechanisms within are displayed through the exhibition window on the back of the stainless steel case, displaying the bridges & rotating rotor within.

Automatic HS2091M movement w/ 20 jewels

42mm x 14mm gold tone stainless steel case
Combination date & moon phase window
Sweep seconds dial
Gold tone alpha hands

Sapphire-coated top crystal

Exhibition back w/ Côtes de Gèneve bridges & rotor

Water resistant up to 3 ATM

190mm x 18mm genuine stitched leather strap

No Ordinary rustic farming environment was the 1730 birthplace of Jean-Louis Bolle. Farming was an ongoing enterprise to be sure, but within a stone’s throw of where Bolle had breathed his first breath, and no doubt furrowed his share of fields, he also apprenticed for three years learning the art and craft he would master ahead of his peers. These peers happened to be family in the form of cousins and friends he’d known most of his life. At his own cost, and with tools he provided himself, Bolle would excel in a place described as a mechanical workshop, a place whose door he had run past without a thought hundreds of times as a boy, the interior of which was described as a “laboratory of experimental physics” where he worked as a young man.

About this time in the Eighteenth Century dozens of such shops existed as family businesses throughout the Swiss countryside, most numerously found in Saint-Gervais. Such enterprises had proudly dated back 150 years and would continue carrying forward as long as skills, technology and bloodlines would allow. Though Geneva hummed as the heart and soul of Earth’s watch-making universe, no watchmaker nor their laborers in that city could well supply themselves with all components and movements for the many timepieces built there. For those supplies they relied on makers from the outlying villages.

Raised in a farming community, Jean-Louis Bolle understood the law of the harvest. Not only does one reap what one sews, one is given a bit of soil and seed and tools for only so long. One must not make excuses, one must do the absolute best work possible given the resources available. The seasons will not be patient, they will continue to change whether or not you plant or harvest while the seed spoils or the crops fail.

All of this was as simple as night and day to Jean-Louis Bolle who incorporated this simple wisdom into a master business plan.

Considered a master watchmaker after a mere three years apprenticeship, Bolle sought a worthy partner in Abram Dubois and the two established a firm for creating rough movements. Promptly they began turning out components and tools for neighboring watchmakers, building the company, and establishing themselves, still very young in the business. Within two years, their firm began working with watchmakers who had reputable trade with high-end clients in Paris. From there, the clientele expanded connections across the seas: London, New York and on and on.

From humble beginnings, success built upon success, from chambered apprenticeship to international renown. Jean-Louis Bolle was a watchmaker of honest craftsmanship. And so today, we proudly offer these timepieces inspired by the spirit of this master watchmaker, an individual whose heart and soul grew from the furrows and terraces of Alpine farmland. His was an influence that runs humbly and quietly through all time. We now measure time with these pieces of technology harvested from the seeds of his artistry.

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