There was a recent 1916 video with the new GF CEO Michel Nydegger on the company's watchmaking, vision, and future:
A few salient points which I noted from the video:
- GF is going to produce only 200 watches going forward, because if increase beyond 200, the finishing will not be of the same quality. The original intent to increase production to 500 has been scrapped;
- The increase in manfacture space to cater to the increase of production to 500 has been shelved accordingly;
- Of the present 135 staff, 20 are hand-finishers, 20 are in R&D, 9 are in Handmade department;
- GF has done a lot of tourbillon in the past 2 decades and the intent is to focus on "other inventions" GF has not explored before;
- Handmade 2 will be capped at 3 per year;
- GF will have new initiatives for "GF Family" (existing collectors) like bringing watch-making bench to travel to their locations for servicing and strap change, and to have priority allocation for GF Family;
- the focus in the future is to reduce the diameter of their watches significantly.