Ed the Grocer (modérateur)
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Paris,
27/04/11, 10:00
 

Hentschel Hamburg Botschafter ? (Général)

J'ai reçu la newsletter de Hentschel, mais comme c'est en allemand je n'y comprends rien. J'ai été quand même capable de cliquer sur le lien, et je suis arrivé à ceci :

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Bon, j'ai pu déduire que ce devait être une édition limitée en bronze, avec toujours un Anton Schild 1130 dedans, mais qui me parait assez retravaillé.

Si des bilingues veulent en dire plus, ce sera avec plaisir.

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Ed the Grocer ancienne maison l'Epicier

Herakles
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Penn Ar Bed,
28/04/11, 06:49
(Modifié par Herakles
le 28/04/11, 07:04)


@ Ed the Grocer (modérateur)
 

Hentschel Hamburg Botschafter ?

Bonjour,

Le site est également présenté en Anglais, voir petit drapeau sur la gauche : En Anglais

Eight differents trades are needed to produce a good mechanical watch. To give you an insight into our work the following explanation will be relating to the above listed parts of a watch. If this becomes too technical for you, please skip the respective part.

For our current H1 and H2 handwound watches we employ the legendary historic A.Schild AS1130 calibre movement.

1130 mit Goldchatons This movement has quite a long history: At the beginning of the thirties the German Wehrmacht made an international call for tender. The task was to develop the best possible movement for a military watch, a so called “Einsatzzeitmesser”. The movement should have a large diameter so that the balance and gears could be quite big and thereby more durable. It should be robust and low-maintanance friendly so that it could last many years in military-, police- and firebrigade-services. Apart from this, the movement should hold the time precisely and dependably, even under exposure. There were a lot of extensive tests waiting for the manufacturers and in 1932 only the caliber AS1130 was accepted. The movement was used by the German forces in world war II and hence was called the “Wehrmachtskaliber”.

Another noteworthyness is, that the call for tender was repeated in regular intervals and was complicated with additional tests. But the “Wehrmachtskaliber” AS1130 scored first place everytime right into the sixties! In the early thirties curved bridges, a screwed balancewheel and steel hairsprings were customary. Officers watches were equiped with a swans neck regulator as an extra. More technical modifications were to follow: From the early fifties on the shape of the cocks and bridges was changing constantly and the screwed balance gave way to the selfcompensating monometallic balance. Furthermore the shock protected balance became standard. But even 35 years of constant development were to no avail and in the seventies this true classic of watchmaking was superseded by the quartz watch.

The movement in our current H1-MEDIUM hand wound wristwatch has an interesting history as well. Like the Wehrmachtskaliber the ETA900 was developed in the early thirties and has an off-centre small seconds indication.

However, for the legendary call for tenders it’s diameter was too small. It’s from a small batch of prototypes, which were never used in production watches. As a matter of fact it’s technical features were first established decades later by other manufacturers. This makes the ETA900 a true rarety!

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Non scholae sed vitae discimus ...

FranZois

hayingen, Moselle,
28/04/11, 16:55

@ Herakles
 

Hentschel Hamburg Botschafter ?

Ah, une montre faite de vis de navires en bronze , on en a déja parlé quelques fois mais je ne sais plus ou, en tout cas ce sont des pièces plutôt rares et exclusives ces Hentschel.
franz

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