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...a young watchmaker named Richard Habring devised a deceptively simple solution for his employer, IWC Schaffhausen. Habring’s Doppelchronograph (German for “double chronograph”) suddenly made this complication easier to build and more accessible to watch buyers by making use of the ubiquitous and inexpensive Valjoux 7750 as its base. IWC filed for the patent on this invention and enjoyed liberal use of it for the past twenty years in their well-known Pilot Doppelchronograph, as well as versions of the Portuguese Chronograph, the iconic Da Vinci (which received its tenth hand with its tenth birthday in 1995) and most recently, a titanium Ingenieur Doppelchronograph. Not to mention the Il Destriero Scafusia – still to this day the most complicated serially produced wristwatch ever.
Last month (март 2012) , the patent on IWC’s simplified Doppelchronograph finally expired, and Richard Habring is no longer in Schaffhausen. After a prolific run at the company, which saw him develop not only the Doppelchronograph, but also the legendary Aquatimer Deep One, Habring left in 1996. After some years serving the LMH Group, the conglomerate which owned IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre and A. Lange & Söhne before they were bought by Richemont, his wife Maria Kristina had the idea to settle in Austria http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/2012/4/...-who-inve.html |
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лубочное творчество что взять )))
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Хабринг делает очень умные, очень приятные, очень оригинальные, весьма доступные но довольно страшные часы )
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У большинства дешевых независимых корпуса убогие. И циферы простоваты.
Такое ощущение, что банку жестяную кольцами нарезали. Но это издержки цены :) |
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