The amazing new watch of Grieb & Benzinger originated from a luxury antique movement launched in 1890. At that time, Patek Philippe designed this excellent movement for Tiffany.
Grieb & Benzinger’s new masterpiece watch- Blue Danube
Blue Danube watch is an extraordinary complex watch, which fully shows brand’s superb watchmaking crafts, including hand-carved and sculptured skills, substrate plated with rhodium or rose gold skills as well as the skills of manual skeleton the bridge. Each component is in need of rehabilitation and repair, and some components are even completely replaced. Of course, the new components will replace the old one.
The movement is formed by over 400 parts and it costs 6 months to finish reinventing process. Compared with the new movements, this movement is not just repaired as Grieb & Benzinger watchmaking factory has devoted a lot of effort to creating it. The productive process of this movement is similar to produce brand’s new movement. In fact, this movement is not just repaired; it is the highest level of art.
The common character of each Grieb & Benzinger Platinum lies in the substrate plated with blue platinum. Actually, this substrate plated with blue platinum is used to commemorate the famous watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet’s student Charles Oudin, who had created movement based on blue substrate. Grieb & Benzinger is proud of owning this rare original blue Outdin movement. During the period of Jiaqing and Daoguang of Qing Dynasty in China, some Swiss watch manufacturers (such as Bovet and Charles Oudin,etc) sold lots of blue substrate watches to Chinese kings and nobles. Therefore, Blue Danube watch is a symbol of the historical roots. In addition, dial is another highlight and characteristic of Blue Danube watch. Hand-skeleton and rare Breguet brushed dial shows brand’s professional technology of reinventing this historical movement to a new art masterpiece.
