Chapter 50: What Are You Looking for Me?
On the first floor of Q&D's studio, there are several watch repair stations, which are not much different from traditional watch repair centers if you do not consider the second-hand watch display and sales area, which occupies 90% of the entire floor.
The style of the second and first floors of the studio is completely different, and on the left is the exhibition area of the old man's collection of 5,000 clocks.
With such a large collection, it is impossible to display them all, so the clocks in the exhibition area are often replaced.
The old man will want to do the same as an exhibition, showing different themes.
Unlike Bumaimai, who is only keen on collecting European antique watches, the old man also collects a whole timeline of watch history that represents the development of Chinese clocks and watches and the complete industrial chain.
From the "precision clocks" of the Song Dynasty to the modern and contemporary national theme clocks with unique socialist characteristics.
This collection of timepieces with national characteristics is unique in the world.
The old man originally had no idea of going to Switzerland to retire, but his son Jinda persuaded him that after he went, he could make the old man's collection of clocks and watches into a traveling exhibition.
Let Europeans, who claim to be the birthplace of modern precision clocks, understand that the ancestor of modern clocks and watches is the automatic time-telling robot that brought together top craftsmen with the power of the country during the Song Zhezong period - known as China's fifth largest invention of the water transport instrument elephant platform.
The old man was moved when he heard it.
On the right side of the second floor, there is an open work area with a large wooden workbench, which is different from the space needed to be used to repair the large clock and the sales table.
When the old man himself sat in the J&D studio, he mostly repaired the clocks and watches of complications in the open work area on the second floor.
Because the work area is open and the repair is a sophisticated instrument, the old man does not want anyone to disturb him.
But as long as he buys and buys, the old man will stop what he is doing and ask: "Little girl, what good things did you bring to me this time?"
Climb up the circular staircase on the first floor of the studio.
Following the angle of the staircase, when you can see the open workspace on the second floor, people arrive before they can make a sound:
"Grandpa Jin, why don't you tell me when you return to China, I accidentally broke the English miniature figure enamel pocket watch in 1790 last year, and I went to Beijing to find someone to repair it. ”
"I was disgraced and sent to Beijing. You also know that at that time, European figures enamel pocket watches, but anything with a little artistic value, were mannequins. The first time I came to the door and asked someone to help me fix it, I took such a special category. It makes people think that I have some unusual horological collecting habits. Say I'm a little girl, and I've traveled thousands of miles to repair a ......"
While talking, the buyer went to the second floor.
Just like every time I came to the Johnda studio before, I bought and bought to share a little story between myself and the clock with the old man.
The old man doesn't like to be disturbed when he is working, but whenever he doesn't hear a slightly coquettish complaint about the clock, he will beckon him to go to the work area and sit beside him after completing the process he is doing.
Buy, buy, sit at the best angle and appreciate the old man's craftsman art.
The old man is repairing while listening to the story of the buyer and the buyer.
The open workspace on the second floor is still the same as before, with only one person working intently wearing a magnifying glass for repairing clocks and watches.
Only this time, the buyer was about to walk to the work area, and the old man still ignored her.
Hearing the sound of buying, buying, buying, not to mention asking, he didn't even raise his head, and just continued his work.
Maimaimai just wanted to continue to call "Jin Ye ......", but before the second master could say it, he paused.
At this moment, sitting behind the workbench of Grandpa Jin Qiang's non-genetic inheritor, the person who repaired the antique clock was full of black hair.
Because I brought a magnifying glass, and I lowered my head, I couldn't see my appearance at all.
But this upright posture made Maimaimaimai understand for the first time the true meaning of the three words "sitting like a clock".
Until this second, Maimaimai had always thought that "sitting like a clock" was an ugly state.
Sitting like a bell, whether it is a small bell in a temple, or a straight pendulum clock without a waist, or a round clock with a belly as big as a dial, it is a manifestation of a bad figure, and it will not be a beautiful gesture.
Knowing this second, buying, buying, buying, and understanding that the most important thing about "sitting like a clock" is a state of mind rather than a form.
The young man in front of him was quiet and quiet.
It was as if even breathing was still, and it seemed to be one with the antique clock he was repairing.
In one person, the temperament of a bell was found, and the fact that this made Mai Mai Mai a little shaky.
She felt that she must have made the wrong line in her head.
After shaking his head, Mai Mai Mai remembered the purpose of his coming up, walked a few steps closer, and spoke again: "I'm here to find the old man." ”
After ten seconds of silence, the bell repairer finally put down the No. 5 antimagnetic tweezers in his hand: "There is no old man here. I am working. ”
Calm and waveless sound, no emotions, no ups and downs, no heads up.
But with a breath full of alienation, he directly issued an "eviction order".
"I'm sorry to disturb your work, but just now the clerk said that the boss is upstairs, and I have an urgent matter to find the inheritor. "It's the first time I've felt such a powerful aura.
This aura is beyond the reach of even when she is still the boss.
Xu is because he has never encountered such an aura, and he feels a magnetism that attracts him to the center of this aura.
BuybuybuybuyA few more steps forward.
"Do not enter the work area. The cold voice sounded again.
I was rarely rejected before, but at the moment, I didn't pay attention to the rejection itself, I just thought it sounded good.
"I know it's not for idlers here, and I didn't mean to come in and disturb your work. But it's not the first time I've been here, I've used to come here a lot to watch old men fiddling with these shareholder clocks. I know where to go, where to sit and watch, so that it doesn't interfere with your work. "Walk to the back of the workbench.
The act of buying, buying, buying, and finally making the person who sits and the clock become one puts down the antimagnetic tweezers in his hand.
"What are you looking for me?" the person who spoke was still wearing a magnifying glass, and did not turn his head, but just turned his back to Mai Mai Mai.
The cold, detached but highly magnetic voice came from the front of Mai Mai Mai, the incongruous attributes blended together, but it was surprisingly good.