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The Art of Enamelling at Lange & Söhne

 
 By: foversta : November 24th, 2014-11:55
As you know, the Lange One Tourbillon Handwerkskunst features a stunning black enamel dial. During the event organized in Dresden, Romy Zimmermann was preparing the specific powder used to create the dial. Lange published a few days ago pictures which des...  

Looks like...

 
 By: Ares501 - Mr Green : November 24th, 2014-12:45
this is very meticulous and hard working process and it also looks like some text is missing :) Between picture 6 & 7 there are surely some important steps + is the dial of Lange one cut out before or after enameling to reveal tourbillon? Sincerely Da... 

I like when such craftmanship is used from time to time

 
 By: Mark in Paris : November 24th, 2014-13:37
and remain rare as well. The result must be beautiful, with maybe a little shade of blue from some angle ? Thanks for sharing Fx. Cheers, Mark

"The more enamel layers are applied, the darker the final surface appears."

 
 By: small-luxury-world : November 24th, 2014-14:58
Any idea how many layers are needed here in this case? Looking forward to see it (the watch, not the process) "live" some time soon. Hopefully! Thanks, FX! Oliver

Awesome post Fx...............

 
 By: TonyR : November 24th, 2014-15:31
Thanks for sharing, such a beautiful watch. There are 20 very lucky people out there! Tony

Very cool! [nt]

 
 By: smartbot : November 24th, 2014-16:26

I finally saw the beautiful black enamel on this watch last night!

 
 By: jrwong23 (aka watchthebin) : November 26th, 2014-19:13
Thanks for the wonderful post Fx! Good read and great pics to show the hard work involved in enameling. I will post some live pics of the watch soon :) cheers robin

Thanks for sharing.

 
 By: ianny : November 29th, 2014-07:58
I saw the watch in the metal. The dial is exquisite but it's not easy to photograph it. But I thought your pic came pretty close. Regards, Ian

very cool pictures

 
 By: mjnoumoff : December 1st, 2014-10:40
and explanation of the enamel creation process...thanks for sharing!!