Oscillon – Handmade Fundamentum Edition

OSCILLON Watch – Handmade Fundamentum Unique Concept Watch Edition  2022

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With the Fundamentum model, the name says it all. What makes the Fundamentum of Swiss Made? It lies in the precision, the finishing and the Hand Made. 

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What this really means can only be understood by those who tackle these goals with the old machines and tools.  

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The unique concept of the Fundamentum timepiece is, that in the manufacturing process of the timepiece only involves manually operated machines and all components are manufactured inhouse in our own workshop (exceptions are crystal, jewels, and gaskets)

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Classic materials such as nickel silver, brass and steel take countless hours to achieve their functional form and aesthetic perfection. The watchmaker's hand and eye act as conductor, leading the orchestra of manually operated machines and tools. What emerges is a concert of bevelled and polished nickel silver bridges, polished steel parts, curved wheels, and an oscillating balance. The technical plan and tradition set the direction. 

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The savoir faire and the passion of Oscillon's watchmakers determine the result. Oscillon and the Fundamentum model represent our ambition to continue the craft and tradition. We do not count the hours of manufacture; we focus on the years that the watch will tell the time to the future owner.

 Dial

The very purpose of a watch is to tell the time. So something as precious as time deserves an appropriate stage on which to perform, meaning the dial and hands. 

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Our dials only reveal their full splendour when closely examined. Relief structures emerge on machines that should have retired aeons ago, giving depth to the dial and endowing it with a special lustre.

Circular satin finish

High-quality work must be both functional and appealing, which is why the creation of decorated surfaces and polished bevels are an important stage of the work. Circular or sunray shaped brushings are created on wheels. 

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Creating the necessary custom made holders and tools, as well as setting up the machine takes more time than the decoration itself. A perfect result can only be ensured with the greatest care and the most accurate preliminary work. 

Boring out holes

The main plate is the base of the movement, to which all the ruby bearings and screws are fixed. The wheels and pinions may be perfect but if the axial distances are wrong, it’s all in vain. The distance between the holes of the bearings must therefore be correct to a thousandth of a millimeter and absolutely perpendicular to the surface. One hole after another is produced on a jig boring machine. 

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With the escapement and regulator, holes are additionally bored out on a centering lathe so that upper and lower bearings end up exactly on an axle. The machine does nothing by itself. Only the hand of the watchmaker is responsible for a perfect result. This stage of the work requires great concentration and perseverance.

Turning the pinion

The hardened rough pinions can now be given their final shape. The shoulder to which the wheel is to be fixed emerges on a hand-driven lathe along with the pivots that later turn in ruby bearings. In this process, quality resides entirely in the hands of the watchmaker, who gives the hand graver its shape and guides it by turning. 

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If a required dimension is undershot, the pinion is unusable. This work is the most time-consuming and hardest stage on the way to achieving a ready pinion.

Milling the pinion

For the tensioned spring to get its energy to the regulator – the watch’s actual clock – the movement needs to transfer this energy. The movement consists of steel pinions to which filigree wheels made of brass are fixed. 

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The wheels and pinions are toothed on a century-old machine whose use demands substantial expertise and experience. If both are present, the emerging tooth profiles are absolutely on a par with those produced using the latest techniques.

Balancer

The balance wheel is the heart of the watch. It’s where the precision that the watch keeps is determined. Integrating the balance spring and shaping the Breguet terminal curve require the greatest possible concentration and enormous skill. Incorrectly balancing the balancing wheel will adversely affect the clock’s precision. 

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Because only the simplest tools are used, the difference between good and very good resides at all times in the watchmaker’s hands.

Crossing out wheels

The pinion has to be turned and the wheel has to have spokes fitted. The wheels should have the smallest possible moment of inertia so that they can be accelerated quickly and not hit the pinion leaves when decelerating. The basic shape comes into being on a pantograph. A lot of filing is needed and a huge amount of patience required to achieve the final shape. 

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The technically necessary elements are then followed by the finishing touches in the form of esthetical decorations. The spokes are provided with fine, polished chamfers. It is with this stage of the work that we pay tribute to all the watchmakers who have brought this beautiful craft to perfection over the past few centuries.

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Pure unadulterated watchmaking tradition

We make Swiss watches the way they did a century ago. Each of our machines represents a piece of Swiss watchmaking history, making the manufacture of every watch a journey back in time. We consciously adopt this long and painstaking approach since quality cannot be hurried. 

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Dominique Buser

We believe that this investment of time results in something of lasting value. We manufacture our watches on-site, in our workshop – from A to Z. We take the time needed to make our passion and skill perceptible in the smallest detail of every component.

Lasting value

We work with patience and all our work is lovingly handcrafted, with just five watches leaving our workshop every year. As all the parts of our watches are made on old manually operated machines and finished by skilled watchmakers, no two watches are exactly alike. 

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Cyrano Devanthey

 

Each creator puts a bit of himself into each timepiece. This passion and the professional pride of a handful of specialists are apparent in every watch and results in an object of lasting value.

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TECHNICAL DATA  

Collection:  Handmade

Model:  Fundamentum

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Movement
Manual-winding mechanical
Frequency: 18.000 variations / hours
Power reserve: 45 h
Functions
Hours, Minutes, Seconds
Case
Material Steel
Size:   ø 38 mm
Thickness:   9.7 mm
Water resistance: 50 m
Dial  
Ruthenium coated handmade dial with silver pad printed numerals. 
Relief structures finish with pattern
Bracelet
Leather
Buckle  Pin buckle

 🔴 Price incl. VAT  161'550 CHF 💰

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Contact Information
Oscillon
Heinrich Wehrli-Strasse 7
5033 Buchs AG
SWITZERLAND
info@oscillon.swiss
+41 56 282 22 30

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