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It should sit well on his wrist. But it would also have to exist outside his own imagination and, as he soon discovered, it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>So he made it himself. And in 2004, he founded Van der Gang Watches.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that Wybe Van der Gang had no background or training in design, no knowledge of watchmaking. It was how he\u2019d always done things.<\/p>\n<p>As a boy, Mr. van der Gang, whose father owned a company that made slot machines, amused himself by taking things apart: \u201cVacuum cleaners,\u201d he recalled recently in his offices in Dokkum, a small city near the northernmost edge of the Netherlands. \u201cSteam irons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/23\/style\/watches-wybe-van-der-gang-netherlands.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more via New York Times&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 23, 2018 &#8211; DOKKUM, the Netherlands \u2014 When Wybe Van der Gang was looking for a new watch, he knew exactly what he wanted: It should have extraordinary aesthetics, with a clean-milled case. It should sit well on his wrist. 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