The Piercing Saw

"To saw" is to insist until patience is broken.

The jeweller's hacksaw, which the watchmaker uses only occasionally, is a tool of fracture.

It separates abruptly, cutting material irreparably. But when the thin blade, stretched on the bow, meddles on the bridge of a movement to leave no mark on the piece of a watch, just to leave a shadow of metal between the rubies, then the piercing saw is an act of poetry. It is true that a skeleton watch is a delicate metal poem where space and time unite in the transparency of the movement.

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