It’s been a long time since we last featured something from our mysterious white-gloved friend, so let’s take a look at the Manu Propria.
Part of Angular Momentums ‘Technical Timepiece’ collection, it is a 42mm piece in steel.
Behind the sapphire crystal is a black ‘basket’ style design, and behind that revolves hour and minute disks.
Movement is the old-made-new manual caliber FHF 96.
Our white-gloved friend from Angular Momentum popped up recently in Shanghai, China clutching a model entitled ‘Baby Tiger’.
It features .. yes, a picture of a baby tiger .. beautifully painted on the underside of the crystal.
Apparently this style of “inside the bottle” painting originated way back in the time of the Qing Dynasty.
Lovely jubbly!
Our white gloved friend from Angular Momentum returns grasping their latest – ‘Three Little Feathers’.
[Press Release] Angular Momentum has created and manufactured a timepiece with a dial completely made of “Urushi” Japan lacquer with three little feathers on black lacquer ground.Base dial in black high quality Japanese “Roiro Kuro Urushi” lacquer.
The process of making the base lacquer dial contains 12 layers of different lacquer qualities.
Every layer is applied with a brush and after a hardening process of 24 hours in the “furô”, a cabinet with constant temperature of 27°C and humidity of 68%, flattened by grinding.
The final coating is ground and mirror polished in various painstaking working steps.
The three feathers made in “takamaki” relief black Urushi and engraved,
After polishing a layer of transparent Urushi is rubbed into the engraved lines and cleaned with a special Japan paper, then dusted – as in the “chinkin” technique – one with yellow, one with red gold and one with platinum powder and again cleaned off with “washi” paper.
Finally a diamond is set in each little feather.
Two-body 1.4435NcU Staybrite case
Mirror polished, sapphire crystal
Hand-winding crown with cabochon onyx
Historical mechanical hand-winding movement caliber AS 1911, 11,5‘‘‘, 17 Jewels, 21‘600 A/h, power reserve 48h.
Case caliber 41.20 mm
Angular Momentum have produced these very cool Chinese Emperor pieces for the Salon Belles Montres International Luxury Watch Salon 2011; to be held in Shanghai from October 27th to 30th.
In various colours and sizes between 38mm and 39.5mm, each piece is unique.
They come in 18 carat solid gold, with a sapphire crystal and, of course, beautiful miniature paintings on each dial.
The movements are hand-wound NOS (new-old stock).
Sweet!
Angular Momentum’s white-gloved hero returns bearing an Artisan Falcon timepiece.
[Press Release] Angular Momentum has created an exceptional collection of Artisan Timepieces with „Verre Èglomisè“ miniature paintings of beautiful Falcons on the reverse of a 18.300 ct. Sapphire dial, placed in a 18 Kt. white gold case.
The movement a historical self-winding movement manufactured between 1950 and 1960. The crown decorated with a black cabochon diamond. The watch case can be determined by the customer in any size between 38.00 to 42.00 mm.
„There are no two identical Verre Èglomisé Timepieces in the world. Every Timepiece, created and hand made in our ateliers is unique and differs either in theme, size, material, form or function“.
Verre Eglomisé is a term used to describe the art of cold painting and gilding on the reverse of glass. The glass can be painted, gilded with gold, silver or metal leaf using a gelatine adhesive.
A beautiful mirror-like, reflective finish can be achieved, in which designs can be engraved or the leaf chemically treated to create special design effects. The technique dates back to the pre-Roman eras, but its name is derived from 18th century French decorator Jean-Baptise Glomy who is responsible for its popularity today.
In 2004, Angular Momentum has developed a technique of painting on the reverse of the sapphire crystal of timepieces.
Angular Momentum is the only company in the world applying this exclusive and rare art.
The mysterious white-gloved figure returns with another new model from Angular Momentum: the Classic RDS.
[Press Release] 12 years ago, Angular Momentum launched its first watch collection named “The Pioneers”. A unique aspect of that watch collection was that time was not displayed by hour and minute hands, but by a revolving hour-disk the size of the dial and a minute hand.
The Revolving-Hour-Disk is printed with a minute track and numbers for the 12 hours in conter-clockwise direction.
The Hour-Disk revolves around once every 12 hours. The hours are read at the 12 o’clock position and the minute hand shows the minutes in the traditional way.
This concept was called RDS and was registered as a technical Patent CH 696899 in 1997.
The new Classic RDS comes in a 36mm three-body 1.4435Ncu Staybrite stainless steel case with mirror polished finish, stainless steel back with hand engraved medallion with floral motive, a double curved sapphire crystal and polished hands.
Movement is a NOS hand-winding movement caliber FHF 96, beating at 18,000 vph and with a 48 hour power reserve.
[Press Release] Swiss watch brand Angular Momentum presents a new cushion shaped diving watch in a limited edition of 50 pieces.
Three-body 1.4435NCu Staybrite steel case with crown protectors, alternating polished and brushed, solid screwed on Staybrite back, counterclockwise rotating bezel with green ‘Email Lumineuse’ markers, screwed- in Staybrite crown with green ‘Email Lumineuse’ cabochon.
Pure, solid green Email Lumineuse dial, Staybrite hands with Email Lumineuse ‘Plique à Jour’, green for the minutes and blue for the hours, black structured rubber strap with Staybrite buckle, historical (new old stock) self-winding movement FHF 908, case caliber 43.70 mm, 20 ATM.
Limited Edition of 50 pieces.
It took Angular Momentum four months to complete an exceptional collection of eleven Artisan Timepieces with “Verre Èglomisè” miniature paintings of beautiful Arabian Horses on the reverse of the Sapphire crystal or dial, placed in 18 Kt. white gold cases.
The pieces are equipped with rare historical self-winding movements manufactured between 1950 and 1960.
The crown is decorated with a black cabochon diamond.
The watch case varies and can be requested by the customer in any size between 38.00 to 42.00 mm.
I have to say this isn’t to my personal taste but I can certainly appreciate the amazing workmanship and fine art qualities at play here.
Good stuff.
Angular Momentum have added three new traveler timepieces to its Technical Timepiece Collection: the America-Traveler, the Europa-Traveler and the Asia-Traveler (shame they can’t spell traveller correctly though ;-) ).
Hopefully the travellers using these watches don’t intend to go too far whilst wearing them as each model only covers 12 timezones, rather than the more standard 24.
Or you could simply buy all three I guess!
Model 1 is the AMERICA Traveler: a
Traveler timepiece for American travelers serving the 12 US-relevant (whatever that means) world destinations from GMT -10 to GMT +1. Serving Cities from Honolulu (GMT -10) to Paris (GMT +1).
Model 2 is the EUROPA Traveler: a Traveler timepiece for European travelers serving the 12 Europa-relevant world destinations from GMT -5 to GMT +6. Serving Cities from Mexico City (GMT -5) to Novosibirsk (GMT +6).
Model 3 is the ASIA Traveler: a Traveler timepiece for Asian travelers serving the 12 Asia-relevant world destinations from GMT 0 to GMT +11Serving Cities from the Azores (GMT 0) to Nouema (GMT +11).
The watches feature a Staybrite steel case measuring 42mm which is satin finished with polished bezel, sapphire crystal and cities coated on its reverse.
Movement is the hand-wind FHF caliber 96.
The Traveler Timepieces are delivered to the customer with their personal home timezone positioned at 12 o‘clock for an easy reading.
Just don’t go too far from home y’all!
A new model from Angular Momentum, this piece is named for its sterling silver dial of a Peony blossom and foliage.
The dial is repoussé (a pattern in relief made by hammering or pressing metal from the reverse side), chased and hand-engraved in high relief in sterling silver, gold accents and finished in rhodium.
The Peony is 41 mm in diameter in a polished stainless steel case, spade hands, sapphire crystal glass, 8.00 mm hand- winding crown with Onyx cabochon and timepiece fitted with an ultra-flat hand-winding movement.
