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Heritage Watch Manufacturer - Does anyone know what happened to this company ?Movement Designed by Karsten Fraessdorf & I think Eric Giroud was involved in overall design?.
dropped off the face of the earth
It is a shame because the watch is beautiful but there is nothing about them online other than a few reviews from 2012. Wonder what happened to the company. BTW, very interesting movement.
You have made a good point, its hard to transform a concept into a consistent quality, profitable production. Best Will [nt]
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Too bad...
These were very nice watches with movements by Karsten Frässdorf.
The last I heard they where ramping up production... and then there was nothing more.
I have no idea what happened.
Don
Thanks Don, I have heard say that his movements are too sophisticated for commercially viable production - but personally, I don't know what that really means, given the complexity of many commercially produced watches.. [nt]
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Same fate as soo many projects...
where Karsten Frässdorf was involved, sadly.
Kind regards,
Magnus
I take it he has great ideas but...
All fields suffer from designers and engineers who are unable to see a project through to the finish line. Sometimes its personality, sometimes they tweak and never finish and sometimes their ideas can't be reasonably rolled out. Too bad, a watch that I would have loved to own.
An Interesting article on the latest venture by Karsten Fräßdorf
See this linked article:
This message has been edited by cazalea on 2019-02-25 07:00:52
Thanks Magnus, it's almost like he needs to stop at concept / prototype stage and hand over. [nt]
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The owners of HWM did not want to start production, until...
they sold an x number of watches that would justify the costs of starting the production. Unfortunately they never got enough sales (no surprise for a new brand with zero track record) and the entire project died.