製造商: Marc Brogsitter 年份: Circa 2008 型號: 2181 機芯編號: 6003 錶殼號碼: 003 材料: 18K white gold 機芯: Manual, cal 794T, 23 jewels 錶帶/ 錶鏈: Leather 錶扣: 18K white gold Brogsitter pin buckle 尺寸: 55mm length lug to lug and 32mm width 簽名: Case, dial, movement and buckle signed 配件: Accompanied by fitted box, certificate of origin, unstamped guarantee booklet, user manual and outer packaging
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It is with great exhilaration and pleasure that we offer for the very first time at auction a timepiece from Marc Brogsitter, a name that only the cognoscenti will recognize, a man who entered the watch market with critical applause in 2005. It was in a booth at Basel Watch Fair that Philippe Dufour grabbed many collectors by their hand telling them to follow him as he wanted to show them something “extraordinary”, and it was Brogsitter’s first prototypes. Marc Brogsitter was not a watchmaker but a collector with an intense passion for observatory movements and watches made in the 30s-50s. It is when giving his watches to German watchmaker Karsten Frässdorf for servicing that the duo decided to work together and create rectangular watches with rectangular movements highly inspired by the watches of the past.
The duo were joined by another watchmaker, Urs Gottscheu, whom like Frässdorf had worked at Gübelin under the genius of Richard Daners. The team decided to create the movements ground up and not work from pre-existing ebauches, the technical aspects were the responsibility of the watchmakers whilst Brogsitter impulsed the design. This resulted in two models (with 2 different cases each) one with a constant force escapement and the other a sublime tourbillon – the present example. Made in only 5 pieces in white gold – of which the present watch is number 3 - the watch features a large stepped case with incredible brushed and polished surfaces, a beautifully guilloché dial with bold indexes. The movement is mind boggling with its large 17mm (!) tourbillon cage, beautifully finished mirror polished tourbillon bridge and low beat frequency. Only a handful of watches were delivered until the trio decided to go their separate ways making the present watch not only incredibly rare but also a milestone in the history of independent watchmaking, a timepiece that brought together great passionate minds pushing the boundaries of watchmaking and re-defining the meaning of horology.