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Sergio Galanti is a Swiss-based independent writer specialising in the luxury watch industry, and an advisor to private collectors and investors. He is the editor of WatchDossier (watchdossier.ch), a publication exploring the cultural and philosophical undercurrents of contemporary horology, and the author of Against the Grain: A Cultural History of Swiss Independent Watchmaking.

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What the Telemeter Measures

The outermost scale on Angelus’s new triple-function instrument was built to measure approaching danger. Fifty examples exist. None will ever measure anything. I occupy the highest ground. On the Instrument de Mesures I am the telemeter, the outermost ring,...

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How Much of the World a Wrist Can Hold

This text is written as a parable. The watch at its centre is the Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication by Vacheron Constantin. The conditions under which its indications become fully legible are real rather than exaggerated. What follows is not a review, but a reflective exercise in use, scale, and expectation—an attempt to read a mechanical object on its own terms rather than our own. The watch arrived with the quiet...

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