Julien Haenny
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00:00Cold open — the workshop at six in the morning02:1802:18Introduction, and why this conversation took three years to arrange04:2706:45Where it all started — Kari's first bench10:0216:47Years at Parmigiani — on being twenty-five in Fleurier11:3828:25On finishing as a moral question09:4438:09Waiting lists, allocation, and the people we've said no to12:2150:30The 28 and the Masterpiece — what changed, and why10:081:00:38Succession, or: who does this after me13:521:14:30Fatherhood, apprentices, and the forty-year question09:181:23:48What the press never asks08:111:31:59Listener questions07:441:39:43Closing — leaving via the kitchen02:35Full transcript
Show transcript00:08
Rowan PryceSo, we're sitting at bench three — if I'm counting right — and there's a small seconds subdial on the mat in front of us. Is this something that's going out this week?
00:28
Kari VoutilainenThis one, yes. Probably Thursday. It has been on that bench since Monday morning, which is not unusual. The polishing takes the time it takes.
00:54
Rowan PryceYou don't have a buffer? A batch of ten you're working on at once?
01:02
Kari VoutilainenWe don't. We could. We have chosen not to. The reason is very simple — if the watchmaker has ten in the queue, the tenth one is always going to be slightly worse than the first one. It is a human thing. So we work on them one at a time, per person, and the pace is the pace.
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