Hands-On The Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Capitole 'Waves' In Rose Gold

This is really watchmaking as art, as was the original pocket watch There was a period prior to the general adoption of technology necessary for watches to be real precision timekeepers during which watchmakers competed with each other in making portable timekeepers of the highest possible amusement value, as to-the-second daily accuracy was something of a crapshoot As watches became more precise, they also became less and less ornamental, but there's an undeniable, horological joie de vivre in watches like the Perrin Frères pocket watch and many of its contemporaries, that became something of an endangered species as the age of the precision watch wore on through the mid-to-late 19th century. Source