It all started with our hand, stone and wood. And still these tools are essential to watchmaking.
The lapping plates are great resources for polishing accessible flat parts of the watch, but for more intricate parts we usually get back to our origins and to the use of wood and stone.
These tools can be used to achieve a high polish on these intricate places. The properties of the pegwood shine here: it can easily be shaped to reach hard places, is firm enough to maintain shape and soft enough not to scratch the metal and carry the diamond paste.
The last part of this puzzle is our human hand—the driver of it all. It is able to feel the whole process and adapt; it becomes a ritual. Slow and steady the movement flows, the part gets closer to what was envisioned.
All of this takes time—the wood needed time to grow, diamond to form, technique to be refined and each stroke needs its own moment. This time is what allows each piece to speak. It is how it earns its story.
RA.Gracioli