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Originally Posted by jag32
Read this history on Dubuis. 14 years as a Patek watchmaker crafting grand complications. Absolutely unbelievable pedigree and gives me strong confidence in buying a Dubuis.
Mr Dubuis began his watchmaking career during the golden age of Swiss watchmaking, starting at Longines in the late 1950s. Most of the nine years Mr Dubuis spent at the Saint-Imier watchmaker renowned for its chronographs were in its after-sales department where he worked on repairs. He then moved to Geneva to work for Patek Philippe as a constructor and watchmaker in the high complications workshop. This was a particularly formative time according to an interview he gave to your correspondent in 2012, with the quality and finesse of Patek Philippe watches shaping his philosophy of watchmaking.
After 14 years at the pedigreed Geneva watchmaker, he left in 1980 to set up a small workshop where he repaired watches and clocks for collectors, auction houses and watch brands. According to Mr Dubuis, in the late 1980s he starting working on his first complication, a perpetual calendar module with retrograde displays. And then in the early 1990s Mr Dubuis, the modest, subtle watchmaker, met Carlos Dias, who later became the swaggering impresario of the Roger Dubuis brand. Together they set up Société Genevoise des Montres (SOGEM) in 1995, a striking second act for Mr Dubuis, who was already 57 years old.
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There is no question that Dubuis was a great watchmaker, but, sadly, he is as much involved with the brand today as A L Breguet is involved with his. What he did isn't particularly relevant, in a practical sense, to the brand today.
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Originally Posted by jag32
Obviously none, however in the 2008-2010 timeframe there was a scandal at FM where they were caught using Russian made movements in their Casablanca line. This was catastrophic to the FM reputation and they have never been able to recover.
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Ah. So in your eyes the history of the brand, or what they did or didn't do in the past, is really what makes one brand better or worse then another, not what they are actually producing today? It's kind of a one strike and you're out system then? That's tough love if I've ever seen it
