Independents

Hi everyone,

My name is Etienne Deschamps and I am the co-founder of AkriviA.

First of all, I would like to say thank you to Don Corson for his article! It was a real pleasure to meet Don and present him the prototype of our first watch as well as talking and discovering his own creations!

Secondly, I wanted to give you some more details about the Saturn. It's true, the principle of the movement has already been seen in other brands. We have choosen to launch our first watch using the basis of a known movement which works well and has really good performances. From that point, if you look closer to the movement, you'll discover that we have worked together MHC to change many parts of the movement. AkriviA's Chronograph Tourbillon has a new tourbillon cage and a new escapement wheel. The chronograph wheels have a news design sign by AkriviA. If you look at the back of the movement, you see our 3/4 plate barrel bridge which makes the movement stronger and helps it to be less sensitive to shocks.

We have made changes to numerous components of the movements. The finishing of the movement are really high. We do all of them by hand. As an example, we have 36 inward angles. 10 of them are on the tourbillon cage. All our steel components of the movement are mirror polished. All the engravings have been done by hand by our engraver. We have done all of that because we wanted to show our vision and our love for the fine watchmaking.

The design of the watch is a two years work with a talented designer to express our vision of watchmaking. We want to establish our design as the identity of the brand for our next creations.

I hope I have got the chance to explain a bit more what we are doing and what we want to do in the year coming.

Don't hesitate to give me feedbacks about the Saturn or ask me any questions about our watch and company.

Best regards,

Etienne

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