Today, we get back to that second video.
Being called by its name with a hand on the shoulder and a complicit look, that’s what we were impressed of. Raphael knows each and one of his employees and he knew how to create a special bond with all of them. An interdependence exists.
Doors open and close, along with the oscillating noise of the machines, giving us a glimpse of files and boxes of components moving from one department to another. Illuminated by the light of their workbench, some have their nose fixed on what’s in their hands, absorbed by the material they manipulate and transform. Each move has been done a million times, even a billion times.
They are men and women with great experience, which is put in good use in the product you wear on your wrist. When we wear a Formex, it’s faces and savoir-faire that we see.
At the end of the corridor, behind the left door, are the polishers. They either make the piece smooth, matt or shinny.
One of them, with his fingers full of polishing paste and in front of our eyes full of stars, stops and explains to us his task. He made us realize the multiple steps he has to perform for a simple buckle or a steel strap.