Watchmaking Quotes

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

I sort of collect watches.

I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.

Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

I have always been a big fan of watches.

I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday.

I'm someone who loves watches.

I'm a watch guy - to me, they symbolize hard work and determination.

A round or a square product was easily made, except for an oval one, at that time when watch industry mainly relied on hand-made or semi-automatic equipments. It is like the printing and coat film of the mobile phone, which is difficult to realize counterpoint.

Music is art, and making watches is art, too.

Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge

I love Casio G-Shocks. My dream is to have watches in all colours. I also love gold watches. I'd like to have a diamond-studded gold watch some day.

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

I like watches.

In our eyes, the success of Franck Muller and Sincere is synonymous.

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.

I keep telling everybody with pride that my first-ever timepiece was a Cartier.

I really like watches and have about eight.