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!

January 3rd 2009 - Technical help A. Bouchet from AB Concept is happy to hand over the baby back to the C-Lab team.

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.

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.]

December 5th 2008 - Our “C Lab Series” team worked closely with BNB Concept and independent creatives on this ground-breaking project. Here BNB Scientist-in-Chief Matthias Buttet is brainstorming with the Concord team.

Meanwhile industrial designers are doing some prospective research…

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).

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Enjoy!