The vintage machines that make our dial art come to life.  Traditional watchmaking and craftsmanship are the two keywords that drive us here at our Norwich workshop. The latter term is today often used as not more than embellishment, but with us, it is an ethos, along with the wish to deliver a bespoke experience far removed from mass-produced wristwear. Big-brand cachet has more meaning than ever, but at Garrick Watchmakers, since our inception in 2013, you, the watch buyer, are our focus. And we pride ourselves on the time-honoured skills of British watchmakers; in fact, being part of the current UK resurgence is thanks to you. Today, we want to invite you into the fascinating world of our in-house dial, finishing with the help of our workshop's enigmatic rose engine lathes and straight-line engines. You might have heard the term and equated it to our intricate dial patterns, a time-consuming task performed on these vintage, mechanical members of the Garrick family.  The latest additions to the Garrick workshop are two rose engine lathes that, on arrival, were stripped down, and a full-blown restoration took place, requiring hours of labour-intensive work akin to restoring a vintage race car. A rose engine lathe is a specialized lathe, a geometric one. The device creates what is known as Guillochè, a term for the mesmerizing, engraved patterns on a watch dial or rotor. The rose engine lathe can produce patterns similar to that of a Spirograph on a metal surface, something no other ornamental lathe can manage. Two of our recently acquired rose engine lathes are at work in our workshop after lengthy rebuilds. These vintage machines are a historic, hard-working part of our Norwich workshop and turned dials for the famed watchmaker Derek Pratt. The decoration produced by a rose engine lathe is traditionally called guillochè and can create flower patterns and symmetrical, multi-lobed geometrical patterns. Its poetic name comes from the rosettes used to create the pat