Special – Swiss Watch Makers https://swisswatchland.com Professional Watch Repair Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:34:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://swisswatchland.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-New-Swiss-Watchmakers-Logo-Watch-Repair-32x32.jpg Special – Swiss Watch Makers https://swisswatchland.com 32 32 The Celestial https://swisswatchland.com/2014/02/08/the-celestial/ Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:54:00 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3253 Today will be the first Saturday blog I’ve ever done, to start off I would like to recommend WatchFacts.com
Watch Facts is the carfax of the watch industry they certify that a timepiece you have bought has not been stolen and of course if its all original.
Ok so lets start this off my beloved watch lovers.
Today I will be speaking about another timepiece I dream to have.
It is a Patek Philippe Grand complication
Quick fact Patek Philippe made the first wrist watch in 1868
The grand complication was the celestial particularly ref 6102
A dream upon the stars, yes indeed this timepiece is.
This timepiece is a start gazer to say it can be looked at just like the beautiful night sky.
Patek Philippe uses their 240 mechanical movement on this timepiece.
Illustrating the hours and minutes of solar time
a beautiful sky chart with the phases as well as the orbit of the moon.
It gives you the time of the meridian passage of Sirius and moon.
And a hand for your date.
Composed of 315 components 45 jewels
with a diameter of 44 mm
It has power reserve of 38-48 hours and produces 21,600 vph
Of course the name Patek Philippe is respecting in the watch industry but they always seem to take simplicity and complication one step closer.
This timepiece is truly something that shines but without all the aesthetics other watchmakers use
Patek Philippe instead uses a beautiful dial with outstanding functions to capture the attention of anyone just how the full moon catches your eye in the night sky.
Truly exceptional.
I truly admire Patek Philippes work and especially this timepiece.
I truly do believe they try to simplify the complicated and make it into something magnificent.
They use a shiny navy alligator strap with square scales that goes perfectly with the color scheme of the timepiece.
I’m short on time today since it is my birthday so I’ll had to make this one short.
Remember I will gladly accept any of my dream watches as a gift.
]]> Cartier Vice President had an Accident!   https://swisswatchland.com/2014/02/05/cartier-vice-president-had-an-accident/ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:53:56 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3266
It’s mid week and I thought I should write about a ladies watch for a change.
I don’t believe I’ve ever reviewed a ladies watch on this blog up to date.
I’ve choosen to write about the Cartier Crash
Why? Well because I found it strange that I haven’t written about a ladies watch yet so I decided to write about a watch I found strange.
With a price tag of about $70,000 that could have been spent on the car that instead hit the watch.
This watch comes in a 18K pink gold or white gold case set with brilliant-cut diamonds, beaded crown set with a brilliant-cut diamond, silvered opaline dial , blued-steel sword-shaped hands, 18K pink gold bracelet or white gold and if that isn’t enough there’s one with diamonds, wrist size: 170 mm, mechanical Manufacture movement with manual winding, caliber 8970 MC, Case dimensions: 38.5 mm x 23.1 mm. Thickness: 8.8mm.
Cartier themselves don’t have much to say about the latest crash timepiece, I mean who could this watch is.. well strange. But anyhow this is what they said.

Cartier:”Created in 1967 in the heart of Swinging London, the Crash watch captures the incredible energy of the city at that time. With its asymmetrical dial, it revolutionized the esthetic codes of watchmaking history. Consistently released in a very limited series, this legendary piece carries the prestige of its rare nature.”

Ok so ladies and gentlemen the history for this timepiece is even weirder. The story goes that a Vice president from the Cartier offices in London, was involved in a fatal car crash. A fire ensued and the occupant along with his watch was caught up in the flames, furthering along the fatality and “melting” the watch on his wrist, a Cartier Bagnoire Alongee, which is shaped like an elongated oval. The watch being melted and mangled took on the shape of a surrealistic watch from a Dali painting. The powers that be at Cartier, found this “watch design” actually inspiring, and decided to introduce is as a new design, and as a tribute to their fallen colleague. Thus the “Crash” watch was born.( in Great Britain the slang for a car accident is “crash”)
A few decades after its creation the Cartier Crash became a limited edition timepiece the latest crash model only has 267 limited watches. Odd number of course.
Cartier is known for making beautiful artistic timepieces and indeed this is an artistic timepiece but I still find it strange.
So Cartier took their destroyed Bagnoire Alongee and simply launched it as something new and called it artistic. But it has seem to have caught on and sold well since it’s launch in 1967 once it was turned into a limited edition in 1991 it truly caught on with Cartier collectors.
]]> Tag Heuer Watch To Time The Flash   https://swisswatchland.com/2014/02/03/tag-heuer-watch-to-time-the-flash/ Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:56:56 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3268
Tag Heuer has two watches that seemed to be made to time how fast  DC hero Flash goes around the earth.
These two models are the Mikrogirder 2000 and Mikrogirder 10000.
These two watches set a new standard for chronograph watches.
I will be talking about the Mikrogirder 10000
These watches carry 3 chronograph readers. At 3 o’clock it has a 1/100th of a second reader, at 12 it has your basic seconds chronograph and then it has a blue central 5/10,000th of a second.
The watch has an Anthracite and Silver dial with a visible linear oscillator, black arabic numerals and hand-applied “10000” at 12. Luminescent markers on the hour and minute hands and the chronograph hands at 3 and 12 are solid rose gold, the logo is also solid rose gold.
This timepiece has a movement with 339 components with 28,800 vibrations an hour and 7,200,000 vibrations with the chronograph feature on.
42 hours of power reserve and 3 minutes for the chronograph.
3The case has a diameter of 45 mm and is made of Black titanium carbide.

Tag-Heuer:

“In early 2012, TAG Heuer’s award-winning team of engineers and watch masters made a radical decision: to start from a blank page, forgetting the hairspring and the balance wheel to repeat, using mechanistic theory, Christian Huygens’ extraordinary accomplishment of 1657— the total reinvention of mechanical watch regulation. The MIKROGIRDER represents a complete departure from the conventional, 3-centuries-old Christiaan Huygens system, which today still reigns over the mechanical watch industry. Instead of a spiral shape in a classical hairspring, it uses a coupling blade/girder and excitatory blade/girder system working with a linear oscillator.
The Mikrogirder system vibrates isochronously at a very small angle, as opposed to a traditional watch, which vibrates at an angle of up to 320 degrees. The advantages are numerous. In a classic spiral hairspring system, the effect of gravity due to mass is a dominant issue. With the MIKROGIRDER, the problem no longer exists. There is no loss of amplitude and the movement’s frequency can be modulated on a very large spectrum of frequency without overburdening the power supply.
The result is a significant increase in precision (division of time) and performance (frequency accuracy and stability). The MIKROGIRDER energy performance will enable TAG Heuer chronographs to attain ultra-high frequencies never before dreamed possible.”

 
 Now I had to search the web to show you just how the 5/10,000th of a second of a feature looks like.
 Flash is known for being fast but it takes him about 1/10th of a second to revolve around the earth by that time this watch would have gone around its dial twice. Which means it revolves around the dial every 1/20th of a second.
]]> JLC Counters Gravity Affects, SIHH Jaeger-LeCoultre https://swisswatchland.com/2014/01/30/jlc-counters-gravity-affects-sihh-jaeger-lecoultre/ Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:59:58 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3272 SIHH is one of my favorite watch events. My last few post have been about watches released at the SIHH  This next post will be about.. yes.. another.. watch released at the SIHH. Don’t worry guys I’ll review watches that come in to us later. But come on SIHH releases some of the most magnificent watches one can lay their eyes on.
But today I’ll be covering 2 Jaeger-LeCoultre. We’ll start with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon
The Spherotourbillon is part of the Duometre line, a line in which all watches use the Dual Wing concept this concept to put simply uses two power sources one for your time keeping and the other for your regulation and complication needs. This watch will be sold in very limited quantities, 75 in platinum and an unknown amount of rose gold but it’ll be limited as well as stated by Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO.
Ok so lets explain why there is a Dual Wing concept.
In a watch when you use its features a certain amount of power is used to support them, this can affect your normal features.
Let me show another world example imagine you’re on your computer it has say 8 GB and you have your platform and start up programs that use up say 3 GB (That’s a lot for just a platform and startup programs I know) then you open a video editing program that uses 4.5 GB you’ll notice that your operation on your basic platform might slow down, this is essentially the same for watches.
To resolve this they gave the complication and regulation its own power source so it won’t affect the normal time keeping of the timepiece.
Seeing the image above of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon. You can see there are two mainspring sections one labeled Hours/Minutes the other labeled Regulator. Separating the power source assures high accuracy . But just to take it a step further in accuracy they used a dual-axis, dual cage tourbillon on a 20° incline. The fact that it uses two axis means the tourbillon can counteract gravity in a large magnitude of positions. To make this watch even more exact they’ve added a flyback seconds button at 2 o’clock which resets your seconds without stopping the watch.
 The Watch has a 382 movement which consist of 460 parts with a 50 hour power reserve.
Jaeger-LeCoultre says the following about their timepiece

“An authentic revolution in the field of Grande Complication models, the Duomètre Sphérotourbillon, stemming from almost 180 years of history and invention unique to Jaeger-LeCoultre, is equipped withan unprecedented multi-axis tourbillon. In addition to the axis of its carriage, the Sphérotourbillon has a second axis inclined at 20° and thereby freeing it from the effects of gravity in all positions. The revolutionary `Dual-Wing` concept featured in Calibre 382 once again paves the way for an original function and makes this exceptional model the first tourbillon watch that is precisely adjustable thanks to the small seconds flyback system.”

  • The watch is beautiful and unique.
  • On the dial you will find two power reserve indicators.
  • A Date feature around the hour and minute indicator
  • A second indicator as well as a dual time feature.
  • Of course your able to see the beautiful tourbillon on the face of the watch.
  • Look below to see the The Rose Gold Model and White Gold Model as well as a special model that seems to have a night sky dial which I loved.

 

 

]]> You can now carry a miniature planetarium on your wrist https://swisswatchland.com/2014/01/29/you-can-now-carry-a-miniature-planetarium-on-your-wrist/ Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:03:11 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3274 As the title suggest you can no carry a miniature planerarium on your wrist
thanks to Van Cleef & Arpels
This watch is so beautiful so mesmerizing so majestic.
The Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight Planétarium Poetic Complication. This SIHH realese features the representation of movement of 6 planets around the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all beautifully displayed on the dial. The movement is self winding and contains 396 components
The shooting star circulates the watch every 24 hours and is used as an hour marker.
The bezel allows you to select your own lucky day (If you can wear this beauty you’re already lucky)
Using the position of the you can find out the day and month as well.
The case back is decorated with such grace its hard to imagine how much detail and time this timepiece took to make, the oscillating weight itself is decorated with a night sky.
The Watch case is 44 mm and made of rose gold and has a leather strap with a folding buckle.

The planets have the following movements and are made of the following materials.

  • Mercury: Rotates around the dial every approximately 88 days and is made of serpentine
  • Venus: Rotates around the dial every approximately 224 days and is made of chloromelanite
  • Earth: Rotates around the dial every approximately 365 days and is made of turquoise
  • Mars: Rotates around the dial every approximately 687 days and is made of red jasper
  • Jupiter: Rotates around the dial in almost 12 years  and is made of blue agate
  • Saturn: Rotates around the dial in over 29 years and is made of sugilite
  • It is true to the actual planets revolution around the sun which is truly extraordinaire.
The Blue star dial goes perfectly with the rose gold casing of the watch.
The selected gems are perfect for their corresponding planets and are easy on the eyes.
The day, month and year can be set using two push buttons and viewed through two apertures on the dial.
Truly a magnificent timepiece that can be admired by everyone not only watch lovers.
]]> Watch Repairs https://swisswatchland.com/2014/01/15/watch-repairs/ Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:01:06 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3298 Today I’ll be sharing a few repairs with you one that I fell in love with

A nice Rolex and its Date indicator that is in for service. You can see it with its date indicator removed below it also shows the beautiful black dial.
As we continue you can see more and more of the Rolex parts, I honestly enjoy just seeing every little part and envisioning  how when all put together each part works with one another to keep accurate time and show you your date all in a classy style.
  The next repair displayed below is an IWC that I fell in love with. To be specific I fell in love with the dial.The way the hour indicators are shown is simply mesmerizing indicating your year and month on it/perpetual calendar. 7 day Power Reserve and of course the moon phase that is very flashy
If you’d like to send in your watch to us for a repair simply go to our site SwissWatchLand.com, fill out the form and send us your timepiece we will maintain contact with you throughout the process.
]]> Unique piece https://swisswatchland.com/2014/01/14/unique-piece/ Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:04:19 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3300

Enjoy this video that we found very entertaining and interesting. This is a really amazing design and very intricate. A beautiful work of art.

]]> Thank you all let the Holidays begin early https://swisswatchland.com/2013/10/31/thank-you-all-let-the-holidays-begin-early/ Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:30:06 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3319
As the the final Quarter and holiday season Swiss Watchmakers is sought out by many people to revive their timepieces. 
In the past few years Swiss Watchmakers took the business to an online level.
We thought there are many people who are unsatisfied with amateur watch makers so lets offer them the top of the line work.
The idea came to fruition slowly as we were a bit privatized only serving dealers, jewelers, and collectors.
Many people didn’t know about us.
But now we are known throughout the United States not to mention in Switzerland (We were already known in Switzerland prior to our online launch).
Normal everyday people could now get the best possible service.
This would save the time and money.
You can get the same Service from Rolex and Omega as us but they’re turnaround time isn’t the greatest.
Rolex and Omega also exchanged everything on your timepiece. Everything.
So if you have a new looking crystal they would still change it and charge you.
So we decided we’ll offer Full Service plus parts needed to make the timepiece function perfectly,
but we decided that we would offer aesthetic parts and let the client decide if they want them or not.
Now back to the reason as to why I’m writing this.
As our online business has grown in the past years we have a very high demand on repairs.
So I’m going to make an offer to have a bit more space to breath.
Most people send in their time piece 3-4 weeks before the New Year.
This causes us to have an over abundant amount of repairs.
So I am offering a 10% Discount (Promotion Code: Holiday10) for all Holiday repairs that are sent in early November.
This is to help us serve you better and is also a Thank you for choosing Swiss Watchmakers.
It has truly been a pleasure to grow with new clients and have many heart warming experiences with many of you.
From returning a 60 year old to a grand father who thought the timepiece was irreparable, which we actually had the opportunity to skype his son while he returned the watch  to his grandfather.
A truly touching moment.
To birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, or many other special occasions.
 

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]]> HUBLOT Chronograph Speed Cycle Split Second Counter https://swisswatchland.com/2013/10/30/hublot-chronograph-speed-cycle-split-second-counter/ Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:31:52 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3321

So we had this beautiful timepiece come in.

This Hublot has a split second counter as you can see and it looks very appealing. I personally could stare at the counter for extended periods of time and be entertained, pondering as to how fast the movement must be moving how exact every click and clack in the timepiece must be to make it move at such accurate speeds.

Swiss Watchmakers offers the highest level of watch repair services. We take great price in our work and offer reviews on our clients time pieces.

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Quartz movements starting at $200
Automatic and Mechanical movements $369

Chronograph’s starting at $449

 

4 week turnover

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