Independents

I am super excited to be able to share with everyone a few pictures from my adventures in acquiring a Gronefeld One Hertz. 

First and foremost I have to preface this by saying that the Gronefeld brothers are two of the most friendly, gracious, and professional people in the watch industry that I have had the pleasure of meeting. From the very personal correspondences to the attention to detail and frequent status updates, you can really see how much they care about their customers and their products. This kind of experience is why I've been so into watches from independent watchmakers lately..!

I contacted them one late night while surfing on the web and came upon some detailed pictures of the One Hertz Dune (RG edition). I had heard about the One Hertz before but had never seen such detailed pictures of the beautiful and unique movement and once I did, I was immediately hooked... (and so I lost another couple hours of sleep researching it) 

After I read about the many intriguing and unique ways that they designed and structured their movement and about very interesting combination of functions (deadbeat seconds, crown function selector/indicator) I knew that I had to try to acquire one... Only white metal watches work for me, so I didn't have high hopes, knowing that the Stainless Steel was a limited edition of 12, however, after reading about the success of a fellow Purist (optionc) in getting one (http://www.watchprosite.com/?show=forumpostf.classic&fi=16π=4594958&ti=708183&s=0) I decided I'd try to contact them and I'm sure glad I tried!

Imagine my surprise when within hours I got an email back from Bart telling me that they were in the middle of producing their final SS pieces and that I could be allocated one of them!  I felt really bad because it appeared that they were on vacation at the time and they had taken so much time to respond to me with such friendliness and detail!

Since then, over the last few months they've kept me frequently updated on the progress of making the watch (including many detailed pictures), and I have now gotten approval from them to share some pictures here...

I can hardly wait to see the final piece in person because it's so rare that I've never had the chance to handle it in the metal before I had ordered it!

Thanks again to the Gronefeld brothers!

C

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