The real challenges for a clockmaker are the grand complications. With a great deal of passion, enthusiasm and a good deal of patience, clockmaking highlights are created that can undoubtedly be described as luxury.
The new “Eternity Mk1” table clock from the Matthias Naeschke manufactory is part of the outstanding tradition of these complicated timepieces. It is once again proof of the craftsmanship and the striving for absolute quality and reliability of the experienced clockmakers.
The movement is built purely by hand by a single clockmaker. It takes several months before the highly polished, gold-plated movement can be assembled from hundreds of individual parts and brought to life. The smallest wheels and pinions are set in motion. Complicated levers and precise gear changes have to be brought into harmonious interaction and occur at the right time. It is these many details that require the clockmaker’s absolute concentration and many years of experience.
No fewer than seven different complications are combined in this double-faced table clock in a very small space. In addition to the local time, the clock has a half-hour striking movement and a world time display. A perpetual calendar and a calendar week display have also been integrated. Furthermore, it has a power reserve display for the movement and striking mechanism as well as an adjustable second time zone.
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