For my money, when the Germans got them right, their fences are the sexiest, particularly like in the gun above where the deep cut carves into the fences and then sweeps out to form the sideclip.

These fences are elegant but get lost in what may be one of the few engraving patterns that could make Tony Galazan blush:


A little subtler (and $90k cheaper):


Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.