Everyone has their own pets in watch collecting, but for me, the 605
link HU represents a kind of climax in the history of complicated
link watchmaking of the old school, as practiced in the Swiss-French idiom in the mid-20th century. It is a watch that exemplifies
link the apex of haute horlogerie and is as much a landmark, in its own way, as the Rolex Submariner (which was introduced in roughly the same period that the 605 HU cloisonne watches were being made).