The "Watchmakers - The Masters of Art Horology" traveling exhibition will be opening this week in Rome.
This exhibition concieved by Claudio Proietti of the Maxima Gallery in Rome will be showing watches of many of todays most important independent watchmakers along with George Daniels.
The watchmakers being shown are:
Hajime Asaoka
Ludovic Ballouard
De Bethune
Christophe Claret
George
Daniels
Laurent Ferrier
Romain Gauthier
Vianney Halter
Christian
Klings
Daniel Roth
Roger Smith
Kari Voutilainen
Philippe Dufour.
Note the participation of several watchmakers who are not often exhibited such as Christian Klings and Daniel Roth.
The dates of this internationally traveling exhibition will be:
ROME - MAXXI the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Via Guido Reni, 4A - April 6th to 15th
NEW YORK - Phillips NY Gallery, 450, Park Avenue - April 26th to 30th
HONK KONG - Phillips at the Mandarin Oriental, 5, Connaught Road Central - May 24th to 28th
LONDON - Phillips HQ Gallery, 30, Berkeley Square - June 19th to 26th
I would encourage everyone with the possibility to visit this exhibition to do so to manifest interest in independent watchmaking and the future of watchmaking as an art.