WatchProSite|Market|Digest
WatchProSite|Market|Digest

Independents

A new Austrian watchmaker?

 

The other day one of my colleagues surprised me during dinner claiming to have met an Austrian watch maker. While I immediately assumed it meant an encounter with the Habrings, this turned out not to have been the case.

Instead she was speaking of Montre Exacte and their new Vierteluhr (from Waldviertel), with an in-house movement and a surprising complication - a jumping quarter minute counter.


From: http://montre-exacte.at/clock/205/0/39837

As far as I understood orders are being taken and there is lots of scope for personalisation (perhaps not in the ochs & junior variety but much more than usually). Here is a picture of a basic model but AFAIK, this is still a pre-production prototype.


From: https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/ko_kr/about_us/success/case_study.cfm?Component=221530&ComponentTemplate=1481

Curious to learn more about it - perhaps some of our Austrian members / moderators have more details to share? smile

  login to reply
28 Comments view entire thread 

Agreed on the design...

 
By: KMII : August 25th, 2016-13:42
But not sure if this is close to the final product or just something to show how the movement should operate. As said, curious to find out more

Hence my picture arrangement ;)

 
By: KMII : August 25th, 2016-20:18
Agree fully with you on the relative merits of the two.

Corrected response posted for Phil - sorry for the trouble

 
By: anonymous09 : August 25th, 2016-22:05
1st: Have read the operational description... …and arrived at a clear, concise conclusion €““€™€™– it’s the daftest idea I’ve probably ever come across for a mechanical watch! Here’s the deal…the central seconds hand doesn’t move round the dial in the con... 

That quarter jumping thingy is a reference to the location of the manufacture...

 
By: Ornatus-Mundi : August 26th, 2016-01:24
which is the Austrian area of 'Waldviertel' ('forest quarter'), from which the mental jump (pun intended) to all this quarter stuff is a very small one. Magnus

Oh that language issue...

 
By: Ornatus-Mundi : August 26th, 2016-01:44
I will never understand why an Austrian firm would give themselves a French company name and then use watch designation which only work in Austria, not even in the entire German speaking area... Magnus

Have read the operational description

 
By: anonymous09 : August 25th, 2016-18:51
NB - my post came up scrambled on the site. the correct answer is below.

Expertise?

 
By: anonymous09 : August 26th, 2016-08:58
I believe you're confusing me with someone who knows their arse from their elbow. Must be some other Phil that you're thinking about... ...  

Well, I cant think of anything dafter...

 
By: anonymous09 : August 25th, 2016-20:26
than a central seconds hand being used as a 90 degree retrograde, and a sub-dial that requires mathematics, all in order to convey what time it is. Isn't that the point of a simple 3-hander? Hours, minutes, seconds“ bang, job done!

Where it's from...

 
By: KMII : August 25th, 2016-20:29
Telling time by the second is not a real concern - a quarter minute is adequate And the retrograde seconds hand tells you it\'s running

If we’re not going to worry about time to the second, then all we need is a two-hander and...

 
By: anonymous09 : August 26th, 2016-02:33
…an open heart dial to view the balance wheel in motion – if we’re worried about whether the watch is running or not. The fact that the watch runs at a slow 18k vph, with a central seconds hand, means it’ll look as jittery as hell – there’s a reason that ... 

ME ViertelUhr: What I have seen so far is the (empty) case & a escapement wheel cock...

 
By: Ornatus-Mundi : August 26th, 2016-06:50
which was in late June 2016 when, according to Montre Exacte, the ' ViertelUhr ' watch was only 2 weeks to presentation ... The 'Vierteluhr' (quarter watch) is meant as a homage to the 4 quarters which constitute the brand's homeland of the Austrian provi...  

More than helps!

 
By: KMII : August 26th, 2016-07:36
I was already happy with your previous comments but this one answers all of the questions - including the history of the founder. Thank you so much for the clarifications!

'Cider Quarter', you say...?

 
By: anonymous09 : August 26th, 2016-08:46
...sod the watch, tell me more! And don't scrimp on the details. Still think the watch is daft, but maybe if Christian plies me with enough cider, I'll start to come around to his way of thinking. ...  

Maybe we need to make a Purist trip to the place :)

 
By: KMII : August 26th, 2016-08:53
Even if we return without watches, one does not go hungry or thirsty in that place