Why Finishing Matters For a PurchaseMovement finishing is a work of precision craftsmanship. The hours required to bring a movement to a high standard of hand-finishing cannot be shortchanged or shortcutted: you cannot create mirror anglage with a machine and produce the same result. Finishing quality is, in a reliable way, a proxy for the overall standard of a movement's construction. A manufacture that finishes well tends to build well. The attention required for one reflects the culture that produces the other.