The Naked Watchmaker

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Part 3, Files. A photo study from 1991 by Willy Abplanalp and text by Gil Baillod...

Files

The morning is in friendship, in kinship, in affections with all the tools, but if one wants to speak about intimate relationships, then no doubt that the file is the most pampered.

It is flexible in the hand, soft on the material, Tucked in the hollow of a hand it takes support, it preserves all freedom of movement in the fingers, which guides it on the hills, the plain or the valleys of the matter like a caressing hand visit the landscapes of a body.

The files of the watchmaker and the jeweller are the finest of this immense family. They take all the most subtle convex and concave oblong, flat or triangular forms, as knives, rat's tail, pointed or square.

When the file finishes her life so much used she moves to other functions. Its sharp steel makes excellent chisel, engravers, parting and other tools, changing hands and jobs, it changes course.


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