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The Large Pod watch was, if I look at it now, perhaps the most modern and pure form that I'd ever made until that point, Newson said. "It's devoid of any sort of decorative embellishment. Despite the size, it's a very rational link kind link of object. In many ways, it was a precursor to a lot of the other things I did, not just subsequent watches that I designed. It really was the genesis of a link lot of ideas."

A plumassière nowadays works only with feathers from farms. Still to find perfect matches you have to go through a lot of feathers Bulgari says around 500 for each watch. This is another link parallel link to horological gem-setting in jewelry making you can end link up discarding some 50 of a stone by cut weight in order to get a good match in shape and physical dimensions but the loss in high-quality horological gem-setting can be as high as 90.