Sunday, July 15, 2012

NEUHAUS - Janus DoubleSpeed

 













NEUHAUS - JANUS DoubleSpeed Limited Edition



 




Manuel Neuhaus,

born in 1959 in Hamburg, Germany, he starts a ”regular“ school career, but decides to abandon high school during tenth grade and become a photographer instead.

After apprenticeship he works several years as a freelance painter and designer, but for all that earns his living during night shifts with one of Munich´s first graphic computers. Some years and two computer graphic companies later he decides to become self-employed in 1992.


























After long-term and up to this day very successful activity as a media designer, in 2007 he starts to become interested in watches and, very soon, also for their design and especially in watch face design. First concepts are drawn. In 2008 he visits the Basel World and as a result the idea of creating an own brand for a new watch line rises.

In January 2010, NEUHAUS Inventing Timepieces was launched. The company represents quality, innovation and unconventional solutions. Neuhaus: ”Before producing watches all about, we prefer not making any.“

Expect the unexpected...


NEUHAUS Logo
One of the mayor defining features of course is the NEUHAUS logo inside the watch. It is designed in a noble 3-D effect in shiny silver. The reversed N causes a petite aha-effect. Like this, the company already uses its logo the present its objectives.
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NEUHAUS Bracelets
Our bracelets are W I D E. We build large watches. It would look inexpedient if the watch was held by a skinny bracelet. We would use even larger bracelets, but then our clients could just purchase new ones with us. You can chose from several bracelets. Either a fine Milanaise stainless steel bracelet with logo engravement on its butterfly clasp, as well as an ageless classic black leather bracelet with stainless steel buckle. They are 24mm wide.


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Dial with running indication and night vision

JANUS DoubleSpeed´s top guideline is to keep watches suitable for every day´s use. It has an optimally designed face with easily legible numbers, coated with white superluminova colour which luminaires bluish in nightview..
There is also an additional ring with luminous indexing for quarter-, half- and complete hours. The ring is made of matt steel, the white colour can only be seen properly when really needed - in night vision. The watch ows its name to this ”two-faced“ visual appearance: JANUS.

If you take a look at a mono hand watch, you won´t realize if it is even working. This is why the DoubleSpeed disposes of an innovative running indication, which offers an exceptionally attractive solution for this problem.
(See also "Realtime")
Naturally the watch is waterproof until 5 ATM.
Both, the top and the reverse of the AR coated saphire glasses will provide you a longlasting reason to rejoice your pristine watch.

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Acceleration instead of deceleration

The Janus Double Speed is an innovative mono hand watch which runs at double speed, meaning that the indicator goes round the complete clockface in only six hours.

As a result, the available space indicating one hour, is doubled from 30 to 60 degrees. improving the preciseness of time reading drastically. Put into practise, this means virtually down-to-the-minute exact indication of time. In this sense, the Doublespeed is the most accurate mono handed watch in the world, that is to say the most exact readable.zeiger-uhr der Welt, nämlich die am genauesten ablesbare.
Like in real life, good things do not go cheap. The owner of the time piece not only needs to know if it is e.g. 7am or 7pm, like with any normal watch. But he will also need to differ between 7am or 1pm. The difference turns out to be only 6 hours. Nevertheless, most people probably are in the position to handle this technique.





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Design
A simple und functional appearance is beautiful all by itself - and a brilliant design is not the replacement but always the consequence of function.
According to this maxim, we design our NEUHAUS watches. A collection must be self-contained, coherent and consistent. We dislike overlapping brand designs, where all watches look the same.
Exceptions from this rule are the trademarks, that you‘ll find on each NEUHAUS.

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ETA UNITAS movement with modifications
Literally the grand classic amongst modern handwinding movements. 36,6 mm diameter, the perfect match for our large watch.
Why handwinding? Each morning you wind up your watch and put it on, it is like you had a chat with it, you feel its inner workings and sensitivities and creates a connection. What is more, with our crown the winding up will become one of your favourite activities.
Each movement is taken apart seperately and modified to DoubleSpeed. Therefore we manufacture completely new hands, connecting all new parts. Then we verify faultless functioning and put together all parts.


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High class Milanaise bracelet
This high grade Milanaise bracelet goes excellently with the design of the watch. It has a butterfly watch clasp, which the NEUHAUS label is engraved on. Alternatively we offer a black leather bracelet.

NEUHAUS quality and eclusivity 
Always at present - the quality of our watches, which we ensure cooperating only with the most renowned suppliers in Germany and Switzerland.

We consider it worth owning a beautiful high quality watch once in a life time rather than discarding twenty disposable watches.

Our watches will always be produced numbered and in small quantities or even strictly limited. In this way we guarantee our customers the damdest exclusivity and a first class  price-performance- ratio.



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Certificate
The back of each watch leaving our house has engraved the year of creation, a design model number as well as a continuous serial number which we memorise together with the name of our client. In addition, every watch is consigned with an authenticity certificate containing the same information.






Limited to - 99 pieces worldwide!
The Janus DoubleSpeed with black dial is limited to 99 pieces worldwide. Every watch is delivered with an engraved consecutive numbering and a certificate of authenticity.
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Technical details 

Movement
Mechanical pallet
Manual winding ETA 6498 (UNITAS)
Power reserve: 38 hours
Diameter: 36,6 mm
Clockwork alteration: hour hand runs
at double speed
17 ruby bearing jewels
18.000 alterations A/h
Refeinement 

Geneve Stripes
Blued screws

Casing
 Double-part stainless steel
Cover glass saphire glass AR-coated
Display back: saphire glass
Bottom case sixfold screwed
Water resistant until 5 ATM
Lug width: 24 mm
Diameter of case: 44 mm
Case hight: 10,7 mm
Weight without bracelet: 80 g
Bracelets

 Milanaise bracelet, stainless steel
Butterfly watch clasp with NEUHAUS engraving
Weight: 100 g
Leather bracelet, black
Pin buckle, stainless steel
Weight: 13 g

  Limited to 99 pieces worldwide
(per dial version)

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