{"id":3764,"date":"2015-03-17T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:24:04","slug":"four-days-inside-the-rolex-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/four-days-inside-the-rolex-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Days Inside the Rolex Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Clymer from watch blog Hondinkee:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In this special HODINKEE feature of Inside The Manufacture, I will recount a four day experience that completely changed my perspective on the world&#8217;s most important watch maker \u2013 the time that I got to spend inside all four of Rolex&#8217;s actual production facilities in Switzerland.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a fantastically-written piece, and the pictures. Oh the pictures! So good.<\/p>\n<p>It strikes me that Apple&#8217;s getting into a market where their obsession with detail-oriented design is the norm, not the exception. Also, they&#8217;re executing this attention to detail at scale; building millions of watches where traditional hand-crafted watches are made in <em>much<\/em> lower quantities, for much higher prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benjamin Clymer from watch blog Hondinkee: In this special HODINKEE feature of Inside The Manufacture, I will recount&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1075,1074],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}