-min.png)
DESCRIPTION
Throughout millennia, researchers and inventors strived to build a perpetual motion machine, a device that would continue to move indefinitely once started. Without any external source of power, it was believed that the machine itself would generate an unlimited amount of energy. It was only with the formulation of the law of conservation of energy in the middle of the 19th century that physics quashed the principle of perpetual motion. Nevertheless, people’s fascination for the concept remained unbroken.
Of course, the HAMATIC does not purport to be perpetual motion machine – after all, the first self-winding watch from Moritz Grossmann draws its kinetic energy from an external source. A pendulum-style hammer weight skilfully uses the energy generated through the wearer’s movements to transfer it via the ratchet wheel to the mainspring in the barrel, meaning that an external energy source makes the dream of infinite motion come true. It’s therefore safe to say that the HAMATIC is one of the most beautiful and complex examples of would-be perpetual motion.
HAMATIC Vintage
The new version of the HAMATIC in 750/000 white gold comes with a vintage style dial and is limited to 25 models worldwide. The dial has been given a new and exclusive finish. The surface was first painted in a black-anthracite colour. The mirror-polished background on a German silver base was then treated with a finish called ‘black or’, which created a shiny black surface.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Version
White gold Vintage
Movement
Manufacture calibre 106.0, automatically wound, adjusted in five position
No. of jewels
38, of which 3 in screwed gold chatons
No. of parts
312
Escapement
Lever escapement
Oscillator
Shock-resistant Grossmann balance with 4 inertia and 2 poising screws
Balance
Diameter: 10.0 mm, Frequency: 21,600 semi-oscillations per hour
Power reserve
72 hours when fully wound
Operating elements
Crown in 750/000 gold for winding the watch and setting the time
Functions
Hours and minutes, subsidiary seconds with stop seconds
Case
750/000 gold
Case Dimensions
Diameter: 41.0 mm, height: 11.35 mm
Movement dimensions
Diameter: 36.4 mm, height: 5.15 mm
Dial
‘black-or’ shiny black, white Roman numerals
Hands
Hand-crafted, polished steel
Crystal / display back
Sapphire crystal, antireflective coating on one side
Special Features
automatic winding with oscillating hammer, bidirectional click wheels, idler with pawl clicks, manual yoke winder, separately removable clutch winding mechanism, Grossmann balance, Grossmann manual winder with pusher for uncoupling the handsetting mode and restarting the movement, space saving and modified Glashütte stopwork with backlash, adjustment with Grossmann micrometer screw on a cantilevered balance cock, pillar movement with 2/3 plate and frame pillars in untreated German silver, 2/3 plate, balance cock and escape-wheel cock hand-engraved, broad horizontal Glashütte ribbing, 3-band snailing on the ratchet wheel, raised gold chatons with pan-head screws, separately removable clutch winder, stop seconds for handsetting
Strap
alligator leather
Strap color
Blue
Closer material
750/000 gold
Closer
Folding clasp, Pin buckle
Strap Length
Normal