Wednesday, August 4, 2021

KUDOKE – 2 Bauhinia Special Edition


KUDOKEHANDwerk KUDOKE – 2 Bauhinia Special Edition curated for A Watch Company 2021

Bauhinia Limited Edition

Bauhinia as symbol of the city of Hong Kong is a flower that blossoms in various different colors. Inspired by this orchid-like plant Stefan Kudoke and his retail partner, A Watch Company, present the KUDOKE 2 Bauhinia Limited Edition, a one-off exclusive 10 pieces limited edition for Hong Kong.

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Within the KUDOKE 2 Bauhinia Edition each timepiece features an iridescent Tahiti Mother of Pearl dial. This natural treasure combined with Kudoke handcraft & artistry make each watch unique in its details.


Depending on lighting conditions and intensity the different layers of the dark Mother of Pearl either reflect or transmit white light resulting in a shimmering canvas of green, purple, blue and bronze as mesmerizing frame for the  rotating domed Sky-disk at 12 o’clock indicating the hour of day or night.


The dark theme is continued at the hand finished caseback, where the floral relief engraving of the movement bridge as well as the balance cock with its infinity symbol are wrapped in a layer of black rhodium. 


Not to be missed is the small detail, this Edition owes its name to: the hand-engraving of the Bauhinia blossom just underneath the logo plate. 

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This special timepiece comes with a black shell cordovan as well as stone grey suede leather strap with pin buckle and is available at A Watch Company exclusively.

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Stefan Kudoke

„More than 15 years ago, I said to my wife, 'I have a crazy idea: I will manufacture my own wat-ches!'“ At that time, Stefan Kudoke was a student who already had finished his master-watchmaker's degree and had worked at renowned brands like Glashütte Original, Breguet, and Blancpain be-fore.

With the founding of his eponymous brand in 2008, Stefan pursued his dream full-time and made a name for himself as a creator of exceptionally artistic hand-skeletonized and hand-engraved timepieces among his KUNSTwerk collection. Of the emergence of his second collection, the HANDwerk line, Stefan explained, "After more than 10 years, I refined my skeletonizing skills to their utmost, and I found myself in a position where I wanted to develop my watchmaking skills further. To use old techniques and keep the practical know-how of traditional watchmaking alive has always been very important to me." And he brought this to fruition with the first two models of his new collection: KUDOKE 1 & 2.


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With his first own movement, Stefan has fulfilled his dream. Valuable lessons were drawn from the old masters, specifically those of the German-English traditional handcraft of precision watchma-king. "During the development of the Kaliber 1, I was inspired by the design of historical English pocket watches whose use of forms I incorporated into my movement. Ages ago I bought an old English pocket watch movement that lay unused in a drawer for a long time. One day it fell into my hands again, just as the idea of Kaliber 1 began to take shape."

As with his skeleton models, Stefan Kudoke sets great value upon the refinement of the watch components by hand. Be it the polishing of edges at bridges or steel parts, the engravings or the surface treatment of the wheel bridge using a special grinding technology – all steps during the finishing process are carried out by hand exclusively. This is how handcrafted pieces of art are created - in small volumes and with great care and attention to detail.


[Stefan Kudoke, master watchmaker]
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Technical Specifications

Collection: HANDwerk

Model: KUDOKE 2 Bauhinia  Exclusive Edition

Case
Stainless steel, 39 mm diameter, height: 10.7 mm
Sapphire glass on top and caseback
Water-resistant up to 5 atm
Onion crown
Movement
Kaliber 1-24H
, manual winding
Indication of hours, minutes and 24 hours at 12 o‘clock
Diameter 30 mm; height 5.05 mm
46 hours power reserve; 18 jewels
28,800 semi-oscillations per hour
White rhodium plated bridges traditionally finished by hand
Hand-grinding method to finish the movement bridge
Balance cock hand-hammered and engraved with infinity symbol
Polishing the edges by hand
Hand-applied snail-finish on the wheel
Hand-engraved yellow gold plated nameplate
Dial
Tahiti Mother of Pearl dial, frosted dial with two rhodinized chapter rings and logo plaque applied
24h-indication at 12 o‘clock with hand-engraved day & night disc
Hands: Polished infinity shaped hands
Strap
Graphite grey Alligator leather strap with signed stainless steel pin buckle

Limited Edition of only 10 pieces Exclusively curated for A Watch Company

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Press Release - 2021
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 A Watch Company
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Kontakt: Ev Kudoke
☎️ +49 35951 347261 
📭 ev@kudoke.eu
KUDOKE UHREN,
Inhaber Stefan Kudoke,
Wilthener Weg 17a, 01904 Weifa,
Germany
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