Creating a Lang & Heyne Timepiece
Step by step, by the hands of well-trained and passionate watchmaker, Lang & Heyne timepieces are made in Dresden to preserve traditional watchmaking craftsmanship. From hand-engraving, silver grinding, to polishing and burning of hands, the pocket watch inspired brand is capable of 95% in-house production.
Hand-engraving
The mix of precise and strict geometrical mechanics and the harmonic outlines and light reflections create a unique timepiece. Lang & Heyne master engraver, Matthias Köhler, makes every effort to fulfill all the desired motives in a splendid way.
Those stunning engravings are only possible if done manually. The interaction of light and shadows, gloss and matt surfaces bring a unique effect to those masterfully crafted engravings.
Silver Grinding
A mixture of salt and silver.
A rediscovered and enhanced method used in the 18th and 19th century: Silver Grinding.
The mixture of salt and silver is applied to the brass parts of the movement using a stiff-bristle brush.
The plates, bridges and balance cocks are going to be provided with a unique gold-plated cover.
No other technology can achieve the same result.
Through the time consuming process of silver grinding, the result is a surface that has a grain like fine leather.
Hand-polishing
Lang & Heyne carefully prepares all flat surfaces.
All the edges are bevelled and polished.
The balance in the Lang & Heyne Design is provided with a mainspring, of course with a breguet overcoil, to achieve a harmonic oscillation.
Lang & Heyne wants the screws to be of the same high quality as the other parts of the watch. The screws are done on a lathe under a microscope or manufactured from raw components.
The screws will be polished and partly flame-blued in the finest shades of violet: Lang & Heyne specialists manufacture only 12 to 15 screws per day.
Precise control of temperature to burn hands to blue.
The tip of hands pointing down to indicate the exact minute.
After all the hard work, we can celebrate the birth of a model: the first tick-tock of the new watch.
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