Ferrier’s Fine Finish: The Journey of Laurent Ferrier
Laurent Ferrier grew up in a kind of watch paradise. As a boy returning after school to his family?s apartment in Geneva, he came face to face with exquisite timepieces every day. His father restored and repaired complicated watches and clocks in a workshop directly across from Vacheron Constantin.
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The family?s apartment was above the workshop; to reach it, Ferrier traversed the shop, passing his father at his bench, surrounded by the rare treasures he was fixing. Ferrier?s maternal and paternal grandfathers had also been watchmakers. Both nature and nurture, it seemed, dictated that young Ferrier become an avid watch lover.
He didn?t. ?I was not that passionate about watches,? Ferrier, 69, recalled matter-of-factly one recent afternoon in the Plan-les-Ouates headquarters of the watch company he founded. He did study watchmaking, at the Geneva Watchmaking School, and did extraordinarily well there: after graduating he got a job in the movement-prototype department of Patek Philippe. But he entered watchmaking chiefly for the sake of family tradition, he says. So where did the young man?s passion really lie" ?I was more interested in cars than watches,? Ferrier says. So interested that he left Patek after a relatively short stint to take a job in the car industry. Three years later, Patek hired him back to head up a new technical department devoted to the so-called ?appearance parts? of the watch: the case, dial, hands, etc. Patek Philippe?s then owner...
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