Openwork is the highest pursuit of watchmaking art, what is "hollow"? How to achieve such a high-end watchmaking process? We elaborate. The most shallow sense of the hollow: the so-called hollow is "paper-cut", the two arts are common: the molding pattern, the extra part of the pattern should be removed, skill to be skilled, finished without a trace of excess cumbersome, Are all slightest thing. So, you see the hollow table, mostly the entire dial all the components are exposed in front of you. Watchmaking master to ordinary movement as the foundation, the first need to use the hollow part of the hole into a small hole, remove excess metal, and then use a carving knife to trim all edges into a 45 ° angle bevel and the movement of carved into different patterns . In this extremely beautiful process, they must also minimize the obstacles that see the underlying movement. Therefore, the production of hollow table is a very difficult process, not one of the watch types that everyone can be. How to be hollow? Meticulous work Although engraving itself is only a purely aesthetic process, but compared with the solid movement, engraving movement every process is more complicated. . It takes an average of two months to conceive and mold two processes in order to achieve the clever balance between openwork art and practical functions, and hand decoration, chamfering and carving can take quite a long time. All of these operations require smart workmanship and full patience. Since the beginning of the brand's creation almost 260 years ago, the first engraved balance wheel plywood Vacheron Constantin has been outstanding in engraving arts, 2260 SQ movement completely followed the history of this hand-made tradition. The unique laminated structure creates more space for the surface finish, so the handicraft has more space to display. Compared with the solid movement, each 2260 SQ movement chamfering and manual decoration time increased by 10 hours, engraving time increased by 40 hours.