Good afternoon, Mr. Halter. Let me open by saying it’s a pleasure to be able to chat with you in this forum for all PuristS and your fans alike.
1) Mr. Halter, I’ll dive in by asking about your current perspective on your past, present and future. What, in your opinion, has been the highest point, for you as a
Master-Watchmaker, and what has been the lowest point thus far?
2) Mr. Halter, what has been your greatest challenge to date, within the realm of your current catalog of time-pieces, to take from the birth of an idea, to testing,
to production and then to market?
3) Mr. Halter, could you please describe your ideology as it applies to your amazing creations and your vision?
4) Mr. Halter, what are your views in the ethics debate regarding (restoration vs. conservation) and collectors who continually out-bid museums for important historical horological time-pieces? What, if any, is the collectors responsibility
To balance public (museums, preserving, conserving, educational, etc…) & private needs (collectors vault or private display)?
5) Mr. Halter there has been talk of an in-house movement, possibly coming from your atelier? Can you tell us, is there is such a surprise instore?
6) Mr. Halter whom are the current members of your elite team of fabricators?
7) What can the anxious collectors, connoisseurs of the world of fine time-pieces expect from you and your team in the next 5 years?
8) Mr. Halter, there are some skeptics, of which I am not one, that believe you are at an impasse with production problems and other issues…
for instance: prolonging the release of the Harry Winston/Vianney Halter collaboration the Opus 3. How would you respond to such a statement?
9) Mr. Halter, at your stage of horological fame what are some of the more ridiculous rumors you have heard regarding yourself and your work?
10) Mr. Halter, the case work on the Classic, Antiqua, Contemporaine, Vianney Halter Goldpfeil, and soon to come Trio (with new complication) are arguably the best finished cases in the world of horology. Would you share with the PuristS forum your favorite case to fabricate? Why it is your favorite case? And the sequence of events that take place in order to create this rare treasure from initial idea, planning, production techniques chronology, to the final assembled horological triumph.
11) Mr. Halter what advise would you offer to the new prospects being considered for membership into the Ahci?