Philippe Dufour's time-only statement piece, introduced in 2000 to demonstrate what uncompromising hand-finishing looks like without a single complication to hide behind. Roughly 200 examples were made in total before production wound down in the mid-2010s, and the Simplicity is now the watch the independent-watchmaking trade uses as its benchmark for hand-applied anglage and polishing.
top-luxuryneo-vintagePhilippe Dufour in-house, manual-wind -- three-hand, 18,000bph, 60h PR; entirely hand-made and hand-finished by Dufour alone; anglage and polishing held as the industry's highest reference standard; fewer than 200 total produced since 200037mm2000–present
