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Weebly doesn't do BBCode, so I have to link directly now...

https://www.amchpr.com/trip-5---april-23-2018-part-2-shandong-liaocheng-zhong-tai-watch.html

But this is the newest installment of the AMCHPR China Tour 2018, featuring one day: May 23. I re-visited PTS Resources partner Shandong Liaocheng Zhong Tai Watch Co., Ltd, and tooled around in the Liaocheng "Old Town" district.

There's lots of watch related info, and maybe even a few questions answered, lotsa photos, a few videos, and, after the Old Town, a couple of very normal Liaocheng street views.

You guys are first to see this. I'm waiting on a bit more information I might add on Monday before I put this out more generally, but it's the weekend and I hope you like it.

The new information has been added:

More watch movement photos, more factory photos and new information (the info I was waiting for) on the designer of China's very first "open-heart" movement and many more patented Chinese movement designs, Mr. Li Chenguang. The "open-heart" has since become staple design in the Chinese watch industry.

Hope you enjoy...

Worth it just for the photos, but lots of info packed into the site. Great post, AT.

Some incredible photos. Always amazes me that you are THE Westerner with access to the Chinese watch industry. Such a different culture.

biglove wrote:Some incredible photos. Always amazes me that you are THE Westerner with access to the Chinese watch industry. Such a different culture.

Thank you for your kind compliment, but...

You're amazed?!?!?!?

I'm still astonished, every single day, at what I've been fortunate enough to experience and share. I look back on the photos and articles and I can hardly believe it myself even after living it.

Going back perhaps a hundred years ago--the blink of an eye in recorded history--much of our combined knowledge of various subjects came to us in this way. Learned people, with an intense interest in a small niche subject, would do the legwork and research into their subject, and then publish their findings, with little or no financial reward, for the edification of others with similar interests.

In terms of Chinese horology and its understanding in the West, there is no finer gentleman scholar than our own A-T. He wishes to learn more about Chinese horology, so he goes to China and learns about it, publishes his findings, and we are all the richer for it.

conjurer wrote:Going back perhaps a hundred years ago--the blink of an eye in recorded history--much of our combined knowledge of various subjects came to us in this way. Learned people, with an intense interest in a small niche subject, would do the legwork and research into their subject, and then publish their findings, with little or no financial reward, for the edification of others with similar interests.

In terms of Chinese horology and its understanding in the West, there is no finer gentleman scholar than our own A-T. He wishes to learn more about Chinese horology, so he goes to China and learns about it, publishes his findings, and we are all the richer for it.

Exactly that^^^ Like DaVinci and freakin' anatomy.

I knew diddly squat about Chinese watch manufacturing other than I was largely disinterested until you started posting about your travels and I started hanging out on occasion at AMCHPR. The site is more awesome every time I see it. Noticed the screen saver photography this time around- I recognized a couple from posts but saw some really spectacular pics I never saw before- truly great stuff, AT.

Temerity, 3F, Conjurer...many thanks for your generous comments. No one is as supportive of my madness as you folks here at Watchlords, and you all keep me going.

I'm very grateful.

I'm going to be adding some more photos to the Desktop Backgrounds section, and I'm happy you enjoy that stuff, 3F.