In 2007 the managing director of Pierre DeRoche Pierre Dubois found in his friend’s antique shop an interesting movement that used to power a pocket watch of the 19th century. He bought the watch and brought it to his father. From the very beginning the watchmakers were certain that it was a LeCoultre movement, but they couldn’t prove their guess. The only clue in the investigation of the movement’s story was the patent number 8172 on the main plate. In the Swiss federal register this number corresponded to a “new watch with a crown�. The patent was given on May 5, 1894, to some Noma Robert-Vaelti, a watchmaker from La Chaux-de-Fonds. But neither reputable historians of horology nor specialists from the watch museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds knew this watchmaker.

The watchmakers from Pierre DeRoche decided that the story of the movement is as follows: at the end of the 19th century the movements by LeCoultre were sold to many renowned brands, but unknown watchmakers could buy them too – like for example the mysterious Noma Robert-Vaelti. He improved the movement he had bought and patented it. Later the watchmakers managed to find the small seal of LeCoultre – a tiny engraving on the movement.

Pierre Dubois decided to present the old movement with a new life. The result of his work is the new Pierre DeRoche Grand Cliff TNT BelCanto powered by the unique antique movement carried to perfection in the workshops of the company. The watchmakers from Pierre DeRoche not only re-assembled the movement but also decorated it with Cotes de Genève. In total the company produced only three copies of the watch: with antique movement, with repeater and quarter-of-an-hour gong and with chronograph.

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Mika Rissanen, the watchmaker specializing in design and creation of complicated movements, has designed a new revolutionary watch system for the Rudis Sylva brand.

The new movement boasts two tooth balance wheels that are operated by one escapement mechanism. The wheels are connected with each other and guarantee the same amplitude. With innovative technicity, this design can boast a more accurate setting capacity than a conventional tourbillon, thanks in particular to the asymmetric deployment of the mainsprings in all positions, hence the name “Harmonious Oscillator“. This world first with two toothed balances exhibits a resonance effect from the first oscillations. The tourbillons run inside a cage with pure but stylised decorations.

The uniqueness of the new Rudis Sylva movement is enhanced by the perfect shape that houses the timepiece’s heart: the case is crafted from gold or platinum. The case back is decorated with an enamel image of the sundial. This dial is a reproduction of that adorning the wall of the “Les Rosées” farm, in the village of Les Bois, formerly known as Rudis Sylva.

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The famous jewellery and watchmaking house of Cartier proudly presents a new collection of watches equipped with a self-winding movement that was fully designed and assembled in the company’s manufactories.

The timepieces from the new Cartier collection are housed by stainless steel cases with insertions of 18K gold. The diameter of the case is 42 mm.

The watches are powered by the in-house movement calibre 1904PSMC based on 27 jewels. The movement provides 48 hours of power reserve. One can see the movement through the transparent back case.

The new Cartier collection of watches is notable for the small seconds placed at the lower part of the dial, the date aperture for three days and a big hour marker for 12 o’clock.

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Many amateurs and connoisseurs know much about mechanical watches. But how well do they know the process of creation of a timepiece? Try to answer the questions of our little test to find out whether you are a real expert on watchmaking.

1. In order to polish the barrel or any other oversized detail that is difficult to fix with a usual collet one should use:
a. candle
b. primus stove
c. file
d. flashlight

2. These strange objects have been used by watchmakers for several centuries. Watchmakers use them if:
a. he needs to pin the wheel to the axis
b. he needs to wind the watch
c. he needs to make the small parts of the movement wet
d. the client is being rude

3. The watchmakers are supposed to invent:
a. the turning machine
b. continuous milling machine
c. pair of compasses
d. microscope

4. Millionometer is the instrument that watchmakers use to measure the parts with accuracy up to 1/1000 of a millimetre. It was invented by:
a. Abraham Louis Breguet
b. Charles Antoine LeCoultre
c. Jean Jacques Blancpain
d. Ivan Kulibin

5. This device was used for:
a. putting the decorative pattern on the crown
b. screws thread
c. chronograph buttons production
d. making dinner

6. The device in the picture is:
a. vernier callipers
b. razors for balance adjusting
�. vice clamp for final paddle adjustment
d. clamp for hands straightening

7. To set the small machines in motion a watchmaker often used this device:
a. bow
b. blind
c. sabre

8. In 1819 the Swiss company Lienhard built the first:
a. movement assembly automatic line
b. drilling machine
c. gear-cutting machine
d. guilloche machine

9. The device in the case was used to polish the tips of the axes. Its name was borrowed from German and sounds as:
a. weltzwerk
b. axinstrument
c. zapf-machine
d. polirenwaffe

Key to the test: 1.d; 2.b; 3.b; 4.b; 5b; 6.b; 7.a; 8.d; 9.c

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The watchmaking company Armin Strom has made one more step n the way to independence and uniqueness having presented its first in-house movement ARM09 (ArminReserveMarche09).

The representatives of the manufactory say that Armin Strom will produce manually wound movements providing 8-days power reserve. The first watch equipped with the ne movement will be presented by the company at the BaselWorld next year.

The Armin Strom movement is notable for the main spring double barrel made of special copper alloy and golden crutch wheel. The movement comprises 146 components and measures 36.6 mm in diameter and 6.2 mm in height.

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