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(u-s:b /Quinting) One of the most coveted watch brands, Quinting, has taken the watchmaking world by storm because of its innovative genius.

Mysterious clocks. The idea of realizing a transparent watch was born at the beginning of the 19th century. This objective was pursued by the most talented minds of the horology sector but the complete transparency was not achieved except for some clocks. At that time, Jean-Eugene Robert Houdin, the French clockmaker and performer widely considered the father of modern magic, made what we call today “mysterious” clock the dial of which made of glass was completely transparent. Without an explanation it was practically impossible to understand how this “mysterious” clock was functioning.
Later such fine brands as Cartier and LeCoultre experimented with this wonderful concept in clocks: devising a working movement that is made of glass or somehow see through. But up to now, nobody could make a completely transparent wrist-watch.

Watches became thinner and thinner and, by the adoption of skeleton models, whose mechanisms are worked with tremendous patience and accuracy, the target has been neared. Yet, the complete transparency of the wrist watch was not achieved, except for some models whose cases are made of a one-piece crystal, disclosing movements reduced to the essential or mounted in line. And up to now nobody succeeded in totally hiding the “pulsating heart” of a timekeeper to the view. Many specialists in the horology sector thought this would be an impossible undertaking.

How the first wrist watch in the world has been created? Nowadays the public has become much more sophisticated and it is not easy to amaze it, unless mystery is led to its extreme. This is the case of a recent chronograph created by Quinting. The prowess of this achievement is truly remarkable. What was already surprising in a clock becomes even more so in the confines of a small wristwatch. Quinting has assumed a place in history by conceptualizing and creating the first transparent wrist-watch which is unique worldwide.

Quinting, founded in 1993, was the brainchild of four Swiss engineers, who set out to create unique watches with hands that appear to float in space with no visible means of being turned. After seven years of development by economist and engineer, Pascal Berclaz, the transparent Quinting chronograph was launched. Quinting was able to produce the world’s first transparent watch because engineers were involved in its creation. They incorporated the time-honoured traditions of the watchmaking industry as well as engineering technology to ensure that the timepiece was unique. When the first transparent chronograph was produced it was welcomed with great success and honoured with the prestigious “Official Prize of the Revue des Montres in 1999”.

Thanks to Pascal Berclaz, the current CEO of Quinting, who could bring this watch’s concept to reality, the process of manufacturing was started in 2000. As soon as the piece was put into the market, it became so popular that the demand exceeds by two thousands pieces not only its potential output, but also the quantity Quinting really “intended” to produce. In fact, they decided to keep production at a low rate, as is suitable for high-quality items.

A transparent Quinting’s movement. The movement in sapphire that requires a high degree of precision and knowledge. The manufacturing process is a great challenge for the firm, which has had to overcome a number of advanced technical problems. With the exception of 7 parts, including the hands, all the components of the Quinting chronograph, numbering 230 and 26 sub-assemblies, are manufactured exclusively for this little marvel.
Essentially, each Quinting watch houses a patented sapphire movement that makes the watch transparent. If you study a complicated movement from a well- established brand, you will find that its movement is made from metal. The Quinting movement is made by superposing several thin-toothed discs of sapphire previously metallised and given an antireflection coating. This is a very complicated system of stationary and mobile sapphires. It must be immediately noted that such a watch could absolutely not be realized with an entirely “mechanical” movement, but it was certainly not easy to obtain it even by adopting an electronic solution that anyway has to use many sophisticated mechanical pieces. Therefore, summing up, this watch might be considered a mechanical one electronically driven. Inside the external rim of the case four motors are hidden from view. From these motors, the hands are driven by a system of mobile sapphire crystals. There are six transparent mobile sapphires – one each for the hours, minutes and seconds. Additionally, there are seven stationary sapphires which hold the assemblage together. The positioning of these glasses is extremely rigorous. The sapphire layers are placed at a distance of at least 0.08 to 0.1 millimetre.

The Quinting manufacture is one of a small circle of watchmakers producing their own movements. All the parts of the Quinting movement are assembled by hand at the manufacture situated in St. Blaise, near Neuchatel in Switzerland. The extremely delicate operation is performed in a dust free room to ensure the perfect transparency.

Working in sapphire is a very precise craft. It requires a delicate hand and 100 percent precision since, unlike metal, sapphire is a nonfusible and nonelastic material. This advanced technique requires a high degree of precision and knowledge, placing the Quinting watches among the most sophisticated and complex on the market.

Autor:  http://www.quinting-watches.com
Quinting vassylivetska@project.od.ua

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