Video – Swiss Watch Makers

Franck Muller – Making a Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar

Nicolas Scatena — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:25:58 +0000

Franck Muller watches have always been known as the most complicated and finest timepieces in the world. Thanks to its strong in-house capabilities in numerous fields of Haute Horlogerie, this young company rapidly became one of the best Swiss horlogerie brands. Today, Franck Muller focuses in on combining boldness and and creativity with the fine watches manufactured.

In the video below, the Tourbillion Perpetual Calendar is shown how it is basically made and manufactured entirely in-house. It begins with hundreds of technical sheets for each and every single component which is later manufactured, being delicately decorated and perfected before being incorporated into this exceptional movement.

Tag Heuer Watch To Time The Flash

Nicolas Scatena — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:56:56 +0000

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.

Speake-Marin

Nicolas Scatena — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:13:40 +0000

This watch came to us a while ago but I had a few images of the watch and I wanted to share it with you.
It’s a Speake-Marin

Simple and eye opening.
I can’t show you the completed watch as it has been sent out.

Swiss Watchmakers has been serving fine time pieces since 2000

Here you can see the Speake-Marin dissembled.
Speake-Marin is just as old as our company being established in 2000 by Peter Speake-Marin. A very talented watchmaker that has collaborated with Harry Winston to produce the Excenter Tourbillion

Pay great attention to its design as its very different from most time pieces. It has a simple movement and yet it has an eye opening design.

This watch comes with a simple hour minute marker on a small dial that has what I would call high visibility, no abstractions no diamonds shining so bright you can’t tell the time. Simple and right to the point.

This time piece comes equipped with a power reserve indicator. This time piece has an amazing 110 hours of power reserve.

I love the hands on the back for the power reserve indicator. It has a snake way look to it and it looks great it would be nice to have the hands as hour minute indicators but I still enjoy the original hands.

Swiss Watchmakers is licensed and certified by Omega and Rolex equipped with all the right equipment including many other brands.
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Ulysse Nardin Sonata

Nicolas Scatena — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:14:48 +0000

Today a Ulysse Nardin Sonata was being re-cased and examined. This being one of my all time favorite watches of all time I had to get a few quick snaps.

Automatic, Dual Time Zone, Alarm, Date.

This Watch is extraordinaire.

It has a very distinct look. With big tear shaped hands and alarm timer (It tells you how long until your alarm sounds perfect for everyone who has to count how many hours they can squeeze in of sleep or something actually productive).

This watch is worth around $45,000 USD
Came in to be polished and examined and oh was it examined! I stared at the watch and just starred at it. Could it be the tear drop hands or the stunning white gold case, maybe it was the alarm and its lovely melody.

But this watch had me fall in love. This time piece is what you can call an all in one time piece. It’s an automatic movement which indicated the Date is also a Dual time zone with an alarm! Did I mention the alarm has a count down? Not only that but Ulysse Nardin sure knows a thing or two about fashion the look of the watch is bold, outspoken, different yet with a classic look to it. I’ll let you enjoy the rest of pictures and don’t forget to like us on facebook!

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