About
Welcome to our website, dedicated to a last century high fidelity to time specialist.
This site is a unique display of the collection legacy of PPN, an old school watchmaker from the last century, a fine mechanics and precision to time specialist.
His unique collection of thousands of Branded items was left aside for 30 years, before eventually being re-discovered in 2024 !
This trove was made up since 1939 and up to early nineties.
His will would have been that all those parts would be used in their destination purpose, as in renovation or restauration works on their original watches and movements.
Some of his tools or rare parts would end up in museums or open collections to share with every mechanical watch enthusiasts.
Many books, parts, and manuals were already distributed by his widow, to close colleagues and friends, as well as a large quantity of his daily used items and main tools.
What remains today is nonetheless a unique serie of time pieces, and souvenirs.
Our intention is not to sell "on-line" but to allow watchmakers, collectors, specialists, experts, and all enthusiasts to eventually find the vintage piece they are looking for.
Progressively all of his legacy will be set on display here, but it's a huge task to achieve, so it will take a few month or years to complete.
All your expertise is welcome, if you can help identify any part on the site, or correct any wrong description, date or reference. Please feel free to mention any remark.
More About Pierre ( PPN )
Trained in Geneva, at the headquarter of the R. brand for decades, he acquired a exceptional specialty at fine tuning all models of R. watches.
He also gained an incredible experience fixing watches of the family and relatives for more than 6 decades, not all R. branded, but also from all the market models, including the most prestigious ones.
During his trainings, not only did he met all developers and brand technicians, but also all the other watchmakers of the brand, coming in Geneva for training from all countries where R. was developing its commercial and technical network.
Thanks to his wife, found of meeting exceptional people, and luckily very multilingual, he could meet with people from around the world and travel to so many places, thanks to an exchange policy, set up by Mrs Rosalyn Carter, ones first lady in the USA.
One thing leading to another, he became known in some circles, as the "watchmaker of the kings", as he regularly repaired and maintained royal family watches from different countries, sometime crossing the globe to bring him theirs to fix.
After
For some 25 years at the end of his R. career, he trained a bunch of young watchmakers of the brand, as much in R. Brussels as in Geneva.
About Pierre
During the second World War, in his 20's, he was a courageous civilian resistance fighter during the german occupation, watching & attacking trains, and spying & sabotaging at the airports around Brussels. Some items from his collection are still proofs of his reckless actions ( Luftwaffe Stuka pilot helmet left )
As he was fluent in German language, passionate about aircrafs, engines, precision, he could meet up for a coffee with pilots & officers, in mess of their bases, in order to grab information about their crews and missions. Some papers ( aussweiss, spy reports,..), german magazines, medals, weapons, bits & pieces are rare collectibles from that period left over, witnessing his comitment to freedom. ( aluminium Luftwaffe spoon 1943 below)
