A century-old painting classic inherits the legend of Revue Thommen 150?
Time, stating history in a silent way; Human beings embody time with exquisite skills. The invention of the timer enables human beings to track the track of time; The development of watch technology has created a hundred schools of thought in today's watch industry. Pioneers of watchmaking take tradition as the warp, ingenious thinking as the weft, and combine exquisite craftsmanship to portray a treasure on the wrist and become a classic that spans time. Today, there are still many followers who adhere to the same idea and continue to create and continue the historical legend of clocks and watches with the help of innovative thinking. Among them, soman, who has been honed for 150 years, not only witnessed the development history of watchmaking industry, but also wrote his own brilliant page with traditional tempering. ?
Enthusiasm breeds new life?
The origin of Soman watches can be traced back to 1853, and the founder Gedeon Thommen set up a factory in the remote town of Waldenburg in southern Switzerland. At that time, Soman Watch Factory mainly produced pocket watches and wristwatches, and assembled all watches with homemade movements and parts, which was a completely independent watchmaking factory. From this historical background, Gedeon Thommen has laid a solid foundation for the self-made movement ability and watchmaking technology of Soman watches from the very beginning. ?
On the other hand, the industrial revolution in the19th century has already begun, and the invention of the steam engine indirectly pushed the railway industry into a new era. Gedeon Thommen In view of the decisive position of transportation in the future, Gedeon Thommen built a private railway in the small town of Waldenburg and owned his own train as a means of transportation between Waldenburg and the outside world. This move not only connects Soman watches with the entire Swiss watch market, but also brings prosperity prospects to the town. ?
New thinking creates a new bureau?
At the end of 19, the completeness and convenience of railway transportation completely changed the mode of human transportation, and the barrier between distance and time was greatly shortened. Gedeon Thommen In view of the increasing population and frequency of trains, the accuracy and convenience of the watch's timing function is relatively important. Therefore, in 1885, the first jumping pocket watch-gt1885 saltarello was invented in order to facilitate passengers to keep the time consistent with the train. The time-jumping device of this pocket watch is located in the center of the dial, with a minute-jumping indicator below, and a small second hand device at 6 o'clock. The launch of GT 1885 Saltarello completely subverts the traditional way of reading time, and its unique creativity confirms Gedeon Thommen's traditional innovative watchmaking spirit. Later, in 1952, GT 1885 jump watch series was introduced, which extended this unique idea to watches. ?
In addition to constantly pursuing breakthroughs in watchmaking technology and creativity, Soman Watch also applies its self-made movement ability to different fields. Around 1920, soman began to produce aviation instruments across the aviation field. 1936, soman formally established the aviation instrument manufacturing department, devoted to the research and development and manufacturing of instruments for aircraft cabins. With the consistent excellent technology, Soman Watch has quickly opened up its own sky in the aviation field and become one of the internationally renowned aviation instrument manufacturers. It has not only been recognized by the civil aviation industry, but also favored by the European aerospace technology research and development company "Perspective Concept" and was invited to participate in the development plan of "Phantom 2000-5" pilot's anti-gravity flight suit "G-Suit" and flight table, which will become the standard equipment of several North Atlantic Treaty Organization air forces in the future. ?
Strength makes classics?
From the small town independent watchmaking factory in Waldenburg to today's watch and aviation instrument production headquarters, Soman watches have repeatedly innovated with the spirit of pioneers by constantly challenging themselves. Although Soman Watch underwent a brief reconstruction at the end of the 20th century, Growana took over Soman Watch on 200 1 and officially returned to the mechanical timepiece market as a professional brand image of self-made movement. At the end of 2003, Soman Swiss Watch Factory also completed the expansion project and brought a variety and complete series of watches to watch fans. Over the years, soman watches have produced many well-known classic works, which are still treasured in the hearts of watch fans. For example, Soman's most famous three heavenly kings watches-alarm clock watch, happy hollowed-out watch and airspeed flying watch-have all become the rocks for Soman to stand on the altar of watches. ?
The alarm clock, known as the "presidential watch", was introduced by Soman in 1947. It is the first mass-produced watch with alarm clock function in the world, and it successfully simulates the loud cry of crickets. Immediately after its launch, it was hailed as the most perfect creation in this century and was well known by many American presidents, such as Eisenhower, Truman, Nixon and former US President Bill Clinton, who all chose Soman. 1968, Soman launched the classic Happy Series with strong strength and innovative style, which presented the elegant texture of the watch through exquisite carving skills, and cooperated with Soman's homemade GT54 movement, which showed the strength of both internal and external repair and established a new definition for contemporary classics. 199 1 year, after years of experience in making aviation instruments, soman extended this professional knowledge to the design and manufacture of flight tables, and launched a series of airspeed flight tables. By combining professional aviation technology with exquisite watchmaking skills, Soman's two professional technologies are presented to the extreme, thus establishing a pioneer position in the field of aviation flight tables. ?
After 150 years of tempering, from the initial creation of 19 century to the world-famous at the end of the 20th century, Soman watches have always adhered to the concept of "watchmaking tradition, scientific and technological performance", which has been best confirmed in every Soman watch. It is believed that at the new beginning of the 2 1 century, Soman will continue to shine between fine traditions and brand-new technologies, and continue to create the handed down classics of Soman watches. ?
Soman's three original self-made movements, solid technology to create high C/P value?
Since the establishment of 1853, Soman Watch has always adhered to its unique brand characteristics and spirit, and has never gone with the flow. Especially in today's fierce brand competition and the trend of group merger, Soman Watch is one of the few independent watchmakers in Switzerland. It has the business orientation of medium-priced mechanical watches, but it has the self-made movement ability that only advanced and complex watches can have. It is really commendable, so it has long been a medium-priced brand with high C/P value among countless watch brands. ?
At present, Soman's products not only use general movements purchased from ETA, AS, UNITAS and other movement factories, but also use self-made movements developed and produced by Soman. Although in the 1960' s, most watch brands had their own movement production lines and were capable of producing this basic movement, the movement manufacturers varied from factory to factory. Most low-priced brands will not have enough capital and labor, and the movement produced is not only unsatisfactory in function, but also better than the blank in polishing quality. Although Soman has always been positioned as a medium-priced mechanical watch, it has exceeded the standard in the self-made movement, such as making bearings for moving parts with high-quality gems, using saddle bridge plates instead of pins for positioning and limiting, or beautifully polishing. It can be seen that Soman's quality requirements for self-made movements are no less than those of other advanced movement manufacturers. ?
These self-made movements are mainly divided into three categories: the first category is the basic movement GT 44 for men's watches and the automatic movement GT 54, both of which were developed by Soman in 1968, and there are also hollowed-out versions, which are assembled in Open Heart's hollowed-out pocket watch and hollowed-out watch respectively; In addition, Soman developed two extended models based on GT 54 in 1996: GT 55 with small second hand at 6 o'clock and GT 56 with small second hand and date hand at 6 o'clock. The second category is 1965 Soman's manual basic movement for women's watches, including large three-needle GT 1 1, small two-needle GT 12 at 6 o'clock and two-needle hollowed-out version GT 14, which are assembled on Soman's various women's watches. In addition to the above seven basic movements, the GT 82 manual movement classified as a special style specialty was introduced by Soman in 1952, and modified according to the classic time-hopping pocket watch movement GT 1885 of1885, and assembled into a commemorative watch model GT 1885. ?
Among all the homemade movements, GT 82 should be regarded as the most classic and memorable movement. This improved time-jumping movement originated from ancient GT 1885. In design, GT 82 retains the three-piece bridge design in which the winding system, the traveling gear train and the balance wheel mechanism are fixed respectively, faithfully presenting the stable and simple style of the early antique movement; However, the original jump time display was changed to the ordinary hour hand and minute hand display, and the small second hand at 6 o'clock was retained. Although it sacrifices the time-hopping function of reading interest, this movement can be matched with more diversified watch designs in the future, and its collection value is extremely high, which makes people look forward to the extended models designed by Soman based on GT 82 in the future. ?
The GT 54 automatic movement introduced by Soman in 1968 can be said to be the self-winding version of the GT 44 manual movement introduced in the same year. Like the manual movement of GT 44, it belongs to the basic movement of men's watches, and this time we used to demonstrate the hollow version of GT 54, which was assembled in the Open Heart series. We show Soman's concern about the quality of the homemade movement in many details: the exquisite polishing and positioning constraint mechanism can only be possessed by an advanced movement like Maziqiao. Judging from the sculptor's exquisite degree or overall aesthetic feeling, Soman's hollowing-out movement is above the standard at the price of 30,000 ~ 50,000, showing an introverted but not grandiose temperament. ?
Soman introduced the GT 1 1 manual movement in 1965. At the same time, it also introduced a three-legged model and a hollowed-out version. The GT 14 shown here is a 2-pin hollowed-out manual movement assembled in Open Heart series women's watches. Like GT 54, GT 14 pays great attention to many details. Especially under the cover of the automatic winding mechanism, this hand-made women's watch movement improves the perspective of the hollow part and has better relative visual effect. ?
Airspeed /x- series (ND 4 1mm)?
Having accumulated many years' experience in making aviation instruments, Soman Watch launched a series of airspeed flight watches at 199 1. By combining professional aviation technology with exquisite watchmaking skills, Soman's two professional technologies are presented to the extreme, thus establishing a pioneer position in the field of aviation flight tables. Now it is favored by the European aerospace technology research and development company "perspective concept" and invited to participate in the development plan of "Phantom 2000-5" pilot's anti-gravity flight suit "G-Suit" and flight table, which will become the standard equipment of air forces of several North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries in the future.