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The Bracelets
The Chick-Lip! watches come with a custom handmade leather strap from Wrist Watch Me. They are all stamped with the inscription “Real men wear 33 mm” and “Chick-Lip Benoit TVH”.
Unusually, there are no female owners’ of the Chick-Lip watches. I cannot understand this and I find it unforgivable, and I’ve told Benoit so.
Illustrations And Documents
Every watch comes with a hand-drawn individual illustration showing a characteristic aspect of its owner and an explanation of how each watch is made.
Every Chick-Lip! watch comes with a “Certificate of Nonauthenticity” signed by the character Snow the Hen, stamp-sealed by Benoit and signed by petitesecondes.
My moral of the story
The Chick-Lip! watch project caught my attention in a special way. As an enthusiast for watchmaking decades, I am very lucky to see the most amazing and beautiful watches and the most stunning and spectacular clocks. I have seen all-time classics, unique pieces, pieces of a lifetime, fancy creations, mass production watches, limited editions, one-trick ponies, and clocks or watches that reflect a very personal concern of one person, a special passion, or a form of obsession.
Usually, such pieces are incredibly expensive, rare, or are awarded by lotteries, or tight internet windows of opportunity, or they are given (more or less) always to the same group of people. As far as I see it, many limited, customized, handmade, or rare watches end up in the hands of the wrong person as you can see when they quickly end up on sales platforms for high(er) prices.
As far as I can judge, the Chick Lip! project and its 23 watches, it is best perceived as popular art, micromechanical art, and a combination of several artful processes and steps. What I like the most is that the Chick-Lip! watches are not offered at wild price.
To date, none of the watches have appeared on sales platforms, so they have been allocated to the right collectors rather than flippers and traders. The watches are in the hands of passionate collectors and friends who are connected to each other and are obviously the right owners of a watch from this limited and very special series.
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