Renowned as the world's smallest manufacturer of luxury timepieces, Iceland-based JS Watch has been serving the needs of its Hong Kong fan base through the pages of this magazine for the last four years
To give you, our readers, an idea of the process that goes into crafting these handmade gems, this sequence of images shows from start to finish how one reader's model – the 1919 44mm black dial model with a black ostrich leather strap – was put together.
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