In February 1993 René Quinting came up with the idea of designing a watch that was completely see-through from the dial to the back – a fascinating idea that has occupied the greatest minds in the watchmaking profession for more than 100 years. So it was that a succession of finely crafted skeleton-watches was born, each one with a mechanism more transparent than the last, edging ever closer to this grand goal. None, however, achieved total movement transparency