Starting on Saturday, the renewed Forbes Galleries in New York at 62 Fifth Avenue will host F.P. Journe’s Steel Time exhibition, featuring the largest historic collection of gunmetal watches – burnished steel – a remarkable display of 200 watches from the mid to late 19th century. Each piece is unique in a variety of styles and techniques, but all have echoed in the wristwatches produced today.
This magnificent collection, which will be on display from April 21st to September 15th, 2012, was previously exhibited in the salon of F.P.Journe’s Manufacture in Geneva, Switzerland and at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tokyo, Japan. It leaves the visitor with countless thoughts about the measurement of time and its evolution. It also helps understand why contemporary watchmakers like F.P.Journe continue to develop watch making as a science.


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