S01E12: The Renaud & Papi Diaspora: Greubel Forsey, the Grönefelds, and the French Sleeping Giant Almost Nobody Talks About

It’s the late 1990s. Le Locle, Switzerland. A small workshop in a town most Americans

couldn’t find on a map.

Inside that workshop, working on grand complications... minute repeaters, tourbillons,

perpetual calendars... there are a handful of young watchmakers sitting at adjacent

benches. Some are in their twenties. Some are in their thirties. Most of them are broke. Not

one of them is famous.

In about twenty years, the watches built by the people in that one workshop will sell for the

price of a house. The price of three houses. The price of an apartment building.

And almost every brand…

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