Lang & Heyne. Making of a dial.
Pure enamel art. Making of a dial. Lang & Heyne. Homage to Kirchturmuhr Glashütte (watchtower clock in Glashütte). Ltd. to 5 pcs. Movement L&H Cal. VI, handwound. ...
Wonderful artisanal skills!
Do you know the material of the base plate? It probably needs to withstand 800 degrees or so
Based on the photos, I would guess a high karat gold. The enamel and gold is polished to a final thickness/finish. Fantastic post!! Thanks, John.
Confirmed 18KT solid gold. The technique is called Champleve. They have a section on their website. They did a different design in blue enamel on silver dial and a red enamel on a gold dial.
Isn't the enamel supposed to be fired at high temperature?
How does gold withstand this? curious
Oops I need to get back to my physics class
I thought it was much lower than that. They need to make sure their oven is set quite precisely though, the margin of error is not huge. From a technical perspective, this dial is crazy good
Fantastic post!! thanks for sharing these amazing pics!
I love Lang and Heyne and hope to buy one of their pieces in my future as they are just so cool!!
Amazing dial, and cool to see the process....
Fantastic workmanship. Thanks for sharing this. Darren
