GARRICK – S4 Timepiece 42mm Edition

GARRICK – S4 Timepiece 42mm Limited Edition 2021

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The Garrick S4 is the latest creation from the British firm. It encompasses much hand-craftsmanship, manifest with its elaborate dial and yet, despite its impressive in-house content and high-quotient of hand-craftsmanship, it remains surprisingly affordable.

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For most people, mass-produced products are a default choice, purchased through necessity rather than unbridled desire. The ultimate expression of luxury is a ‘hand-crafted’ object made with time-served hands, free of concessions. Since its inception, Garrick has always tried to make many of its watch components in-house and by hand. Moreover, it has shunned cheap imports, even when this would reduce costs.

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In recent years, Garrick has shown its in-house watchmaking expertise again and again, releasing several refined timepieces. Some of these models are equipped with the firm’s exclusive movements, feature skeleton or guilloché dials and all are enriched with high-end finishing.

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However, the British firm recognises that many individuals yearn for a watch, infused with hand-craftsmanship, but offered at an affordable price. The Garrick S4, the company’s new entry-level watch, features a sumptuous dial that employs an elaborate and highly innovative construction technique.

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Whereas the mass-produced approach is to stamp a dial blank from a ribbon of brass, Garrick uses a lathe to create a brass disc. Two feet are riveted to the underside of the dial blank which ultimately unite the dial with the movement.

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The dial blank is ‘flattened’ using fine abrasive paper in order to remove any burrs or imperfections, creating a smooth surface. Thereafter, the dial is bead blasted. A chapter ring, effectively a circlet of metal, is paired with a smaller ring for the small seconds. These are then drilled, creating holes to facilitate fixing.

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The chapter ring is clamped between two plates and baked at 300°C. This hardens the metal and removes any springiness. After the chapter ring has cooled, it is ‘spun’ on a lathe, creating a motif termed ‘satiné circulaire’. Furthermore, the hour track and minute track are delineated from one another with an engraved pattern called ‘sauté piqué.

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Laser engraving is used to impart Roman numerals to the chapter ring. The resultant recesses are then inked by hand using a special syringe pen. Once the ink has dried, the chapter ring is cleaned and spun again to remove any excess ink.

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Upholding fine watchmaking practise, the Maritime hour and minute hands are heat-blued and the collet sat atop these hands is hand-polished to a brilliant conclusion. 

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The central area of the dial is frosted, while the small seconds display is suffused with an intricate hand-guilloché motif, executed on a traditional rose-engine lathe. Alternatively, the central dial area can be specified with a contrasting guilloché pattern.

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The British-made case, measuring 42mm in diameter, is made from 904L stainless. This particular grade of steel provides superior scratch resistance to the ubiquitous 316L grade as well as exhibiting a notably brilliant gleam. Alternatively, the Garrick S4 can be specified with an 18-carat gold case.

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At the heart of the Garrick S4 is a modified hand-wound ETA movement. It is rhodium-plated, features an engraved barrel and crown wheel cover. 

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Inspired by old English pocket watches, the frosted movement is equipped with a three-quarter plate and also includes a screwed balance. After the movement is tested, it is regulated, delivering a daily variance of +3 seconds.

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The watch is available with a choice of straps, including handmade alligator, calf leather or ostrich.

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While most hand-crafted items are prohibitively expensive, the Garrick S4 proves the exception, costing from £4.995 including VAT. The British brand has endeavoured to mitigate costs without compromising on quality, employing ingenious techniques without diminishing the kudos of Garrick’s costlier timepieces.

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No mass production – every Garrick timepiece is built to order in our Norfolk workshop.

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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Model:  S4 Limited Edition

 

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Case
    904L Stainless Steel or Gold
    42mm Diameter
    10 mm Depth
    Sapphire crystal with AR coating
    22mm Lugs
    Exhibition case back
    Water Resistant to 100m
Dial

Hand frosted & rhodium-plated dial
Applied Breguet style chapter ring with ink-filled numerals
Hours, minutes and sub-seconds indications

Movement

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Hand-wound calibre BF03 (modified 6498) with engraved barrel and crown wheel cover
Screwed balance – tested and regulated to ensure a daily variance of +5 seconds
Rhodium-plated and hand frosted surfaces
 19 Jewels
 Hand frosted finish

Functions
 Running seconds
 Power Reserve: 45 hours
Hands
Handmade steel, grained, polished or heat blued Hours, Minutes
Strap
Handmade Alligator, calf leather, Buffalo and Ostrich.
Buckle
316L Stainless Steel pin buckle

Limited edition

Available in steel or gold.

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Jaquet Droz – Petite Heure Minute Smalta Clara Humming Bird Edition

Jaquet Droz – ATELIERS D'ART Petite Heure Minute Smalta Clara Humming Bird Limited Edition 2021

THE NEW FLIGHT OF THE HUMMINGBIRD BY JAQUET DROZ

With this refined and colorful summer creation, the House demonstrates its mastery of plique-à-jour enameling, a technique that demands a rare dexterity for a naturalistic, lively and unique composition.

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Precious and dreamlike: the new Petite Heure Minute Smalta Clara Hummingbird shines with individuality and delicacy, drawing collectors in to appreciate the technical mastery of its gold partitions. With this creation, Jaquet Droz has established itself as one of the rare artisanal ateliers to use the ancestral technique of plique-à-jour enameling which first appeared 1500 years ago and can be compared to a miniature stained-glass window.

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Different to the art of cloisonné or champlevé, it consists of applying the enamel to bottomless molds. A gold dial with partitions of different shapes and sizes is created. Each empty space is filled with different colors of enamel before undergoing several successive firings. Each passage in the oven gives the enamel its color and density, yet with the constant risk that only a few degrees hotter will break it. Just like a miniature stained-glass window, this plique-à-jour process results in a perfectly transparent enamel which plays with light, shadows and reflections, and which gives the motif featured as much volume as it does life.

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Today, this motif is a hummingbird crafted in a subtle gradient of green. Jaquet Droz created no less than seven different shades to express its summery and joyful vision of this famous bird. By choosing the Petite Heure Minute as its canvas and with an off-centered dial at two o’clock, the House offers the hummingbird a large space where it can express the richness of its tones and the virtuosity of the plique-à-jour (smalta clara in Latin).

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Part of a numerus clausus limited edition of only eight pieces, this is a rare and refined piece set with 100 diamonds on the bezel and pallet lugs, featuring a mother-of-pearl dial, and a case measuring 35 mm which sits on a hand-embroidered green satin strap.

 “Some watches tell time, some tell a story.”

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection  ATELIERS D'ART

Model: ATELIERS D'ART Petite Heure Minute Smalta Clara Humming Bird Edition

Reference J005503502 - Red Gold 32

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Movement
Jaquet Droz 1650, self-winding mechanical movement,  
silicon balance spring and pallet horns, platinum oscillating weight with 18-karat red gold applique. 
Individual limited edition serial number engraved on the oscillating weight.
Indications Off-centered hours and minutes
Jewelling     29 jewels
Power reserve     38 hours
Frequency     21,600 v.p.h
Case
18-karat red gold case set with 💎100 diamonds (0.89 carat)
Diameter Ø 35 mm.
Height 10.83 mm.
Individual limited serial number engraved on the case-back.
Water resistance  3 bar (30 meters)
Dial  
18-karat white gold dial with plique-à-jour Grand Feu enamel, white mother-of-pearl subdial. 
18-karat red gold applied ring.
Hands     Hours, minutes,
18-karat red gold
Strap
Rolled-edge hand-made green satin strap
Buckle

18-karat red gold ardillon

💎Diamonds	IF to VVSI, Full Cut, D to G. Total number of diamonds: 100 diamonds. Total carat weight: 0.89 carat

  Limited Edition  to numerus Clausus only 8 pieces

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