February 17th 2009
What is it?
a - A view of the Mir space station
b - The access ramp to the latest Guggenheim museum
c - The baseplate of the really weird movement
machined in aluminum
Archive for March, 2009
12
Mar
11
Mar
10
Mar
09
Mar
08
Mar
January 14th 2009 - The case engineering is almost finished and the manufacturing experts from Queloz have worked round the clock to figure out how the heck they are going to machine and finish this craaaaazy piece!
07
Mar
06
Mar
December 23rd 2008 - Meeting between engineers right before Christmas: the task is HUGE and challenges are legion!
Personal email adresses and cabin phone numbers are exchanged so that in between slopes, the engineering team can keep on solving issues during the holidays.
05
Mar
December 15th 2008 - Watch designers C. Bellon and A. Dhesse stuck with the C-Lab team in a hotel room during a now famous “design charrette”.
Definition of Wikipedia:
[A charrette (pronounced [shuh-ret], often Anglicized to charette and sometimes called a design charrette) consists of an intense period of design activity.]
04
Mar
04
Mar
Welcome to the “making of” the Concord C1 QuantumGravity.
In the next weeks, we will be showing you “behind the scene” images of the creation of this crazy timepiece, which will be revealed at Baselworld (March 26th till April 2nd 2009).
This is not a typical blog where comments can be posted, but an informative site. Should you wish to send us comments or questions, please send us an email at clabseries@concord.ch
Enjoy!
