Chapter 48 Inheritors of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Before sending the auctioned Vacheron Constantin Mask 2008 series collector's watch to the Q&D watch studio for consignment, the more than 50 million yuan that had been raised was compensated to the workers' families at a ratio of 1:1 by the insurance company.

In the end, there is a gap of 2.3 million left, and the buy, buy, buy and promise will be as soon as possible.

The "big brother who took the lead" who took the lead in making trouble before and forced Maimaimai to press his fingerprints took the lead in accepting the compensation plan for Maimaimai.

Although this person is not highly educated, because of his good ability, he gradually began to become a foreman on the construction site, calling his expression brothers out to work on the construction site together.

In the accident of the collapse of Mai's new building, two brothers he called out were killed and one was injured.

If he didn't take the lead in making trouble, he wouldn't be able to explain to his parents and fellow villagers at home.

Whether it's because he's embarrassed about forcing Maimaimai into the hospital before, or because of his status as a foreman.

After Maimaimai came up with 53.4 million yuan in compensation, the "leading brother" chose to believe that Maimaimai had sold assets in order to raise compensation.

He agreed to pay his family the compensation they deserved for two deaths and one injury.

Maimaimai wrote a letter of guarantee to the "leading brother", promising to solve the final 2.3 million compensation within two weeks.

Maimaimai's reputation has returned to its high point thanks to the efforts of Maimaimai to help fulfill his verbal promise in the video.

More and more people are no longer pointing the finger at the couple, but are beginning to care about where they have gone, whether they are alive or have had an accident.

I feel that all my efforts are worth it.

Two weeks is certainly more than enough to process a set of limited Vacheron Constantin watches that have been auctioned off in the United States.

In order to achieve the final promise as soon as possible, the first thing I thought of was the Q&D watch studio that I used to frequent.

As far as Maimaimai knows, there are only two who have repaired watches and become inheritors of intangible cultural heritage.

One is Wang Jin, a clock master who repairs cultural relics in the Forbidden City.

The other is Jin Qiang, the watchmaker of Q&D Studio. (Note)

Compared with brand-name bags, watches retain their value much better.

Many rich people who seem to be forever beautiful, when they are short of money, have done the thing of "buying watches for a living".

Because of this, studios that repair expensive watches often have people selling watches on consignment.

From the perspective of studio income, it is definitely much easier to sell a second-hand watch than to repair it to make money, especially for some luxury and value-preserving watches, the difference between one in and one out reaches tens of millions, which is also a common thing.

This is also why, Jin Da, the son of Jin Qiang's grandfather, a master of skills, is not interested in clock maintenance at all, and only wants to be a watch merchant.

Although he did not inherit his father's mantle, with his watchmaker father's magical watch repair skills, and learned from his father about the appreciation of different clocks, Jinda's second-hand watch business was very successful, and he immigrated to Switzerland early.

The merchant Jin Da did not inherit the idea of repairing the watch and cultivating the mantle of his father, who was the inheritor of the non-genetic inheritance.

The old man did not force his son.

It is not wrong for a son to like to be a businessman, and he would prefer to be a businessman rather than a craftsman.

After all, watch maintenance is a very boring thing for the average person.

Every day, I sit quietly for at least ten hours at a time.

If you don't really like it, it's impossible to stick to it.

The old man is relatively indifferent to money, and he only loves the matter of repairing watches all his life, and has done this thing to the extreme.

Grandpa Jin Qiang, who is over the age of old, has some relationship with Maimaimai.

The old man's final work before going to his Swiss son to retire in the "golden basin" was to help buy and repair an antique clock.

When Maimaimai first went to the old man to repair the antique clock, he was only twelve years old, and he had just begun to learn to draw systematically.

That year, she saw a mid-19th-century French Rococo style European gilt gemstone sunflower basket clock in the collection of the Palace Museum, and her eyes lit up instantly.

On the flower basket made of sterling silver, there are gilded flowers and branches and leaves, the stamens made of sapphire are very eye-catching, and lifelike butterflies and insects are embellished.

The love is overflowing, and I want to draw this clock with a paintbrush.

It's a pity that this clock was withdrawn on the same day, and I didn't have time to paint it.

It is impossible to take the things in the Forbidden City home and study them slowly, so I was depressed for a while.

A few months later, in the collection of the Czech Art Museum, Mai Haiyang saw a lot in the same style as the gilded sunflower clock that Mai Mai saw in the Palace Museum.

The Czech Art Museum did not consider the bell to be a treasure, because it felt that the small flower basket clock, which was only 32 centimeters high, was no longer suitable for exhibition, so it directly put it up for auction to supplement the museum's operating deficit.

There is a problem with the basket clock at the Museum of Czech Art, but the problem is not the clock itself, but the fact that the museum has always treated the clock as a work of art, not a clock.

With a history of nearly 200 years, and the lack of maintenance, when I bought this clock back from the ocean, the condition was already very average, and the time telling function had long ceased to exist.

There is no way to endure her "love clock", she was born exactly the same as the one in the Palace Museum, the one in the Palace Museum is still dazzling, but this one of hers has become a "defective product" that has been eliminated and disliked.

At the beginning, Maimaimai hoped to go to the Forbidden City to find Wang Jin, a national-level clock restoration master, but before leaving, he heard that there was also a master like this in the city where he lived, and he repaired watches and became an intangible inheritor.

I don't believe it, how can the folk craftsmen be compared with the restoration masters of the Forbidden City?

I continued to ask someone to find Master Wang Jin.

But at that time, the documentary "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" had not even started planning, and the head of the clock restoration team in the Forbidden City had not yet become an Internet celebrity.

The buying boss had no choice but to suppress the doubts in his heart and find a local master Jin Qiang to cultivate.

Worried that there would be no one in the city where he lived who could restore the function of an antique clock, he spent three days in the studio by himself.

Looking at the old man Jin Qiang with a magnifying glass, holding four breaks, one part at a time, repairing the old as before, not only repaired the chiming function of her gilt flower basket clock, but also used clay and wind balls and a lot of tools that could not be named to make the gilt and gemstone flower basket clock in disrepair look new, compared with the same model exhibited in the Forbidden City, it was not bad.

After that, whenever there is a problem with the collection of antique watches, as small as the time for the newly bought watch to need maintenance, they will come to the non-genetic inheritor of Q&D Studio.

The old man looked at the old man who showed his enthusiasm for clock maintenance at a young age, and then looked at his son, his enthusiasm for clocks was only limited to whether they were sold second-hand.

Compared with the two, Jin Qiang can't wait to treat Maimaimai as his own granddaughter.

After the old man retired to Switzerland to live in his old age, Maimaimai, as a special treasure of his own watch collection, has never come to this Qiangda "watch sales shop" that no longer has the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage and does not have the spirit of craftsmanship.