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Christian Klings Timepiece - The Lead Up and the Watch

I’m told my Christian Klings timepiece is now complete and all that remains is for Christian to regulate and ensure everything is functioning as it should before releasing it to one excited customer.  I’ll post some wrist scans when I receive it, but for the time being, here are some photographs which Christian graciously agreed to photograph during the course of building this watch.  I enjoyed receiving each and every one of these, as it really personalized the experience.

Hope you enjoy.

Darren

Original mock – up (obviously done by hand, as tends to be the case with everything Christian does)

Original base movement, with the first bit of modification to add the power reserve (note, the movement started as an AS 1130)

Movement and moon-phase disc after more significant work on it

Movement deconstructed (original parts created by Christian are on the left, with parts modified / finished by Christian on the right)

Case, crown and buckle, all created by hand.

Dial side coming along.

Dial side coming along further.

Finished Movement.

And finally, the other side of the timepiece.

Finally, as I thought these explanations might be of interest (and in response to various questions I’ve had e-mailed to me over the past week), below are Christian’s words rather than mine as I would undoubtedly twist and/or botch at least one of these concepts in trying to paraphrase:

“All of my watches have certain feature of design and construction, what makes them different (unique).

Design and some technical details:

Dial:  The blue is a high quality silk, which is resistant to light.  The material is melted onto the dial plate.  The texture looks like guillochee, it has a soft appearance.  I used the backside of the material.  It looks more mellow.

Winding indicator:    The mechanism  is fitted on top of the ratchet wheel. (large winding wheel).  The planetary gears go through the mainspring arbor.  One wheel is connected to a tube, which goes through the screw and mainspring arbor.  Through the tube goes another arbor connected to the second winding wheel.  This construction does not take additional space.  Also the winding wheels can be seen on top of the ratchet wheel.

(free sprung) Balance with regulation screws.”

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