Brooklyn Watches - recycling old movements for new watches

[asf]

Pretty cool video about a man who mostly takes 6497 based movements and transform them into new watches. Some might say its a travesty to murder these pocket watches, but I think its a sweet idea!

[atomic_doug]

Yeah, it is a travesty. It's not like Switzerland (and China) don't churn out scores of 6497's every hour of every day. The only reason to take the old movements is so the hipster who ends up buying one can say that it's "vintage" without being 100% disingenuous.

My local watchmaker (he prefers clockmaker, though he does both) once gave me a thirty minute lecture/rant on how putting pocket watch movements in wristwatches is just laziness on the part of the designer. (He's not too impressed with Panerai, to say the least.) "A wristwatch should be small and thin. The case should be made to fit the movement."