It all started with a conversation in the office.An office thats full of people who are crazy about watches, what they are, and what they can do.The functional core of a watch is, of course, telling time as accurately as possible.The ultimate goal of any watchmaker is to build a watch that tells time perfectly.This was the case in the past when a watch served an essential purpose, but it also does so in the present, as watchmaking is founded on ancient principles that are still upheld, even in times of atomic clocks.Nowadays, a mechanical watch is both a functional and emotional object.Does the emotional element outweigh the functional one? Is the ancient quest for accuracy a noble one that still makes sense in 2022? Or is it a fool's errand? These questions lead me to ponder precision and what it means to me.Just a couple of days after the question arose at Fratello HQ, Rob Nudds came to the office in The Hague.Rob worked, as you might know, as a watchmaker at Omega.I asked him if it was still a watchmaker's ambition to build the most precise movement possible.He answered with a firm yes.From a watchmaker's perspective, building a movement that runs as accurately as possible is a way for a watchmaker to distinguish him- or herself.Rob told me it was almost like a competition in the manufacture to tune a movement close to perfection.And he also tuned the movement in his own watch to chronometer standards, a time-costly but doable feat.But the watchmaker Rob Nudds is not the person that wants to catch the train to Dresden.That Rob Nudds sets his watch a few minutes early to make sure he catches his train.