Thursday, June 2, 2022

GoS watch – Northern lights for Ukraine Edition

 

GoS watchNorthern lights for Ukraine – Artpiece Unique Edition 2022

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GoS Norrsken UA 1/1

The watch community quickly came together to arrange support for Ukraine in various ways and a blue-yellow Rolex work of art by the watch connoisseur and editor Balazs Ferenczi was an early and elegant example. 

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The Northern lights for Ukraine project started in the first days of March 2022 after a discussion between Patrik Sjögren from GoS and the artist Sunflowerman (Matthew Miller).

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The GoS Norrsken northern lights watch was selected as a basis for the project with the blue and yellow dial created by Balazs as the main inspiration. Matthew immediately began the demanding procedure of replicating the watch design by hand while Patrik worked out a method to create a two-tone guilloche dial.  

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Sunflowerman with his interpretation of Northern lights for Ukrain

Patrik selected a special dial for the project - a guilloche dial that has been through a lot in the GoS workshop, with microscopic battle-scars as evidence. After many attempts, he was finally able to apply the northern-light blue tone with a clean and horizontal line across the irregular guilloche pattern. 

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The yellow tone was then created by gold plating the other half of the dial. Mathew finished the art-piece with his trademark Sunflowerman color-wash technique in the colors of the Ukranian flag. 

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The art-piece and watch were both finalized just three weeks after the project was started thanks to hard work and support by movement manufacturer Schwarz Etienne who provided the movement with its special engraving.

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The set will be auctioned as a combined lot during Sotheby´s Important Watches: Part II” with bidding opening on April 27th in Geneva.

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We hope that the lot that we named Northern lights for Ukraine will generate great interest and a good result as all proceeds will be provided to Red Cross Ukraine.
 
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About GoS

GoS Watches, is based in Sweden and was founded by bladesmith Johan Gustafsson and watchmaker Patrik Sjögren back in 2007. The firm celebrates its Scandinavian origins, taking inspiration from local nature and the history of the region.

The in-house expertise in patternwelded steel, also known as Damascus steel, combined with Sjögren’s skills at ‘the bench’ has attracted admirers from around the globe, especially from horophiles with a predilection for independent watchmaking.

The brand has established itself as the "King of damascus steel in Horology" while also incorporating other traditional and artistic handcraft info the time pieces. Northern lights has been a reoccurring source of inspiration for GoS and was re-interpreted during 2020 to be introduced with the Norrsken model in March 2021. This timepiece captures the appearance of swirling lights dancing across northern skies to emulate this natural phenomenon. The watch draws upon the expertise of various artisans and features a hand-cut guilloché dial and a micro-rotor movement. A handblown index ring, formed of Swedish crystal, allows an extraordinary degree of luminescence to pass through its clear surface, flooding the dial with vivid bright blue tones.

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About Sunflowerman

Sunflowerman is a renowned fashion artist and has fashioned an identity all his own. After growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he lived in London, Milan, Paris, and New York, inspiring him to revive the lost art of men’s fashion illustration in a signature style. Sunflowerman works with clients around the globe creating unique content for brands and illustrating personalized portraits for businesses and individuals.

In 2014, he initiated a project where he would illustrate one watch submitted to him through social media and then show it to the world. The results were compelling and the watch community was excited to see what watch he would depict each day. Sunflowerman has since then released a book showing the product of this work and continues to have a high demand of watch illustrations from watch connoisseurs while working in Sundance Square, the heart of Fort Worth, TX.

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Technical Specifications

Model:  Norrsken UA 1/1

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Handmade in Sweden with a Swiss made movement

 
Functions
     Hours, Minutes Seconds
     Small second at 6h:00 in the shape of the GoS triskele
 Movement
     ASE200 movement by Schwarz Etienne with GoS micro-rotor in handfinished damascus steel and heat blued to match the the dial.
     GoS triskele and "Slava Ukraini" in four languages engraved on click wheel
     21,600 vibrations/hour
     86 h power reserve
     Stop-seconds mechanism
     33 jewels – 199 parts
     30.40mm x 5.25mm
 Case
     41.5mm x 12.1mm (8mm at edge)
     Stainless steel with Stainless damascus steel bezel
     Sapphire crystals front and caseback – Front crystal domed with double sided anti-reflective coating
     Transparent crystal gaskets in new Swiss-developed material
     5ATM water resistance (50m)
     Crown with double gaskets and GoS internal impact protection
 Dial
     Silver dial with handcut guilloché by master Jochen Benzinger - machined and finished by Patrik Sjögren
     Hour index recesses filled with midnight blue Badgerite, developed by James Thompson and Swiss SuperLuminova
     Transparent index ring in Swedish Crystal - individually handmade by master glass artisan Mikael Kenlind
    Solid ring of Badgerite applied round the Crystal index ring.
Hands
    GoS viking spearhead – Rhodium plated
    GoS triskele small seconds hand
Strap
    Polished Salmon leather – blue/black – Made in Stockholm, Sweden
    Tapered 21mm to 20mm with rounded padding
    Pin buckle in stainless damascus steel with GoS triskele logo

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Presentation box

     Individually handcrafted presentation box in Swedish crystal, handmade by glass artisan Mikael Kenlind
     Handcrafted wooden box with vertical opening to protect and showcase the inner presentation box in Swedish crystal

🔰Limited Edition - Exclusively one Unique piece  

Availability: One of a kind set and sold for CHF 15,120.00 sold at Sotheby's April 27th.

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Patrik Sjögren
+46 (0) 737 266211

Email: patrik.sjogren@goswatches.com
Org: 556871-5865
VAT: SE556871586501
Bankgiro (SE): 616-1798
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Gustafsson & Sjögren
Kindagatan 60
58247 Linköping
Sweden
Email: info@goswatches.com

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