Discovery
Michel Perchin now
offers elegant watches.
BY GARY GIRDVAINIS
THE WRITE TIME
HEN PAT PINKSTON
RECENTLY CONTACTED ME, I
thought he was calling to
inform me about for a part II redux on
his Michel Perchin line of fine writing
instruments. Having previously
published Stylus, I knew that Michel
Perchin was known for its luxurious
writing instruments that embodied
precious metals, enamels and
champlevé artistry.
So I was not really all that surprised to
discover that the new Michel Perchin
design is elegant timepiece.
Crafted in massive solid white gold
with diamond-embedded corners and a
champlevé dial that would make a
Faberge artist jealous, the Michel
Perchin timepieces are an accurate
evolution of the Michel Perchin style and
a welcome addition to the original
namesake.
In conversation with Pinkston, I
expressed my appreciation of the
historic techniques of champlevé grand
feu enamel as well as the aqueous ice
blue tonal qualities of the finished time-
piece. Clearly the aesthetic is
horological eye-candy that keeps
drawing you back for another look.
While I do appreciate the rare beauty
of the watch, I was kind of under-
whelmed with the original plan to use a
somewhat pedestrian mechanism
beneath such an elegant drapery. I
mean if you’re going to go all-out with a
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68 | INTERNATIONAL WATCH | FALL 2019
Each watch is
powered by an
automatic Vaucher
movement.