George Daniels - Putting on a show at the Baselworld Fair (49/85)
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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Science & Technology
To listen to more of George Daniels’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzkr4WCsqrhvkOpA-pLIGmS English watch-maker George Daniels (1926-2011) was most famous for creating the co-axial escarpment and could make a complete watch by hand. In his lifetime, he received many awards, including the rarely-given Gold Medal of the Clockmakers' Company of London. [Listener: Roger Smith; date recorded: 2003] TRANSCRIPT: I was still going to the Basel Fair and indeed, my last visit there was at the direct request of the directors of the fair who, fearing flagging gates wanted a tame monkey to put on an exhibition for them. And so they invited me to go out, all expenses paid, and put on a show, hand watchmaking, because that was the coming fashion. I did that and all those people who weren't interested in the co-axial saw all the watches that were there and there was all my books and all my movements and all my watches, and it was a hell of a big show really for one man to put on. But it didn't do what I wanted with Patek Philippe.
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