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Habring2 And Sustainable Watch Making: Richard Habring's Unique Manufacture
My time with Richard Habring has shown me that he is a man on a mission. An independent watchmaker and namesake behind the company?Habring2, he stands alone among his peers as the only one making and selling watches for what in this industry is a low price. In-house movements in fine watches from as little as 4,000 Euros.How can this be? The words "independent watchmaker"usually bring to mind high prices brought on by exclusivity, low numbers and an emotionally vibrant back-story. All of these qualities, except high prices, are there in Habring's watches, and for that he is turning the whole idea of independent watch making on its head defying conventional expectations. Actually, in a sense he is returning to conventional expectations. Those that existed before the quartz crisis when mechanical watches went from being more ordinary to luxury items.
Urwerk EMC Pistol Watch
When it comes to high-end avant-garde watches, those coming from the crew over at Urwerk really need no introduction.?They are wonderful flights of fancy, showing what can be done with imaginative recasting of the elements of a watch, while taking things in a very hard-edged sci-fi direction.?For all that futurism, their latest, the?Urwerk EMC Pistol, brings in a very old-school type of finishing.That, of course, would be the hand-engraving on the?Urwerk EMC Pistol watch.?The Pistol portion of the name comes directly from that technique, actually.?The man who does that work on the cases,?Florian Gullert, more often performs his craft on firearms. Now, this is not the first time we have seen this applied to watches, but all the same, I am a fan of this type of handiwork on a watch case. Likely because, no matter the make, it simply gives the watch a look you do not see many places these days.