Greubel Forsey's tagline is "the art of invention," and its iconoclastic architecture straddles the intersection of sculpture and engineering. But it's a very thin line on which to balance. While the brand's timepieces do have an avant-garde visual flair, they're always tempered by chronograph function, creating a gorgeous yet restrained tension between visual beauty and wearing purpose.
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I was about two years into my watch collecting journey at that point, and it was by far the most Sinn watches I had ever seen. I felt a bit overwhelmed. It turns out that dozens of watches filled with inert gas link don't link make link the link most welcoming of watch meet-ups. Sensing my unease, I assume, the baby-faced distributor waved me over to show off what had arrived in his latest shipment from Sinn headquarters in Frankfurt.