Hommage

You hear it before you see it. Three hammers strike tuned gongs inside the case — hours, quarter-hours, minutes — and the sound was developed with the Fraunhofer Institute because striking through platinum is one of the hardest acoustic problems in watchmaking. Over 550 components. Caliber 800, hand-wound, built on the architecture of the Cal. 617. Gold-plated 3/4 plate. Gear train fully mirror-polished. The very first project in the new Glashütte manufactory — unveiled the day the workshop opened, May 12, 2011. 25 pieces total: 20 in rose gold, 5 in platinum. The first minute repeater ever developed in-house in Germany for a wristwatch.