The Swiss watch titans may not admit it, but despite their Protestant roots they have always modeled themselves after the Greek Gods. A pantheon horological gods who live in seclusion on their Genevoise Mount Olympus, crafting mythical timepieces that they bestow to us mortals when they feel like it.
If Kurt Klaus was a Greek mystic, he would be Prometheus - the god of light, bringing enlightenment and illumination to mankind. Before 1985, the perpetual calendar was an admired and rare complication.patek philippe replica It was something to be kept in the safe and gazed upon periodically with fanatical devotion.
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This complication compensates automatically for the changing rhythms of the 30-31-day cycle throughout the year. It also compensates automatically for the 28-day month of February, and knows when to add an extra day in leap years. Imagine a clock that could tell you the date, month, leap-year, and phase of moon, at any time, so long as it was wound. The challenge comes when your watch stops working because you haven't wound it. You will then have to use the fidgety buttons, which are integrated into your case, along with a stylus, to correct every single indication. In most perpetual calendars, if you try to adjust the dial during the period of date changeover, the movement can be damaged or jammed.
Klaus was convinced that there must be a better solution. He had specialized in the manufacture of calendar and moonphase watches for Patek Philippe Replica a few years before. Remember that the entire Swiss watchmaking industry believed that quartz battery-powered watches were the future in the late 1970s. Patek Philippe Replica was still compelled to preserve mechanical watchmaking. Klaus recalls: "I made an moonphase pocket clock,IWC Ingenieur Replica a simple year-book. I was fortunate because Patek Philippe Replica, despite the fact that most companies at this time would have considered it illogical to make a mechanical clock, decided to experiment with a limited edition. We produced 100 pieces to test the market. They sold out within a record time at the Basel Fair of 1976. This was a great motivation to keep developing. Hannes Pantli, the Sales Director came to me with the message: "Stop using pocket watches. They are no longer fashionable. The Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar was born.
