Description
Dornblüth & Sohn Medium 99.1 Black Dial
Dornblueth & Sohn’s Medium collection has been designed for lovers of the classic Calibre 99 models and prefer a smaller case size. By reducing the case diameter to 40mm, the designers have succeeded in retaining elegance while ensuring comfort and wearability for slimmer wrists.
The Calibre 99.1 movement has been re-engineered to fit the slimmer case and comes in a several dial colours and finishes.
The lacquered-finish on the matt balk dial with printed numerals offers a sophisticated look, well-suited to everyday wear and more formal occasions.
The Caliber • After some time, the two master watchmakers found that the caliber 99.0 with its small subsidiary second needed a somewhat more harmonic face. The pure design of the Cal. 99.0 was supposed to be continued nevertheless in the dial. Different issues had been in consideration, but the increasing of the small “second” played the favorite role. With the help of a long-standing friend of the family the new face of Cal. 99.1 was born.
Movement • Details of the movement Cal. 99.1: diameter: 37 mm • height: 4.4 mm • 20 rubies • oversized eccentric second display, indirectly driven below the train by means of an intermediate gear, with friction spring and cantilevered second pinion • power reserve 50 hours (+/-5%) • 18,000 semi-oscillations per hour • roségold plated three-quarter plate with yellow gold hand-graving of manufactory name and serial number • Geneva stripe finish • retracing ratchet • double sunburst finish on the crown wheels
Case • solid nickel-free stainless steel, polished / burnished, double screw union • diameter: 40 mm • height: 10 mm • 1.6 mm sapphire glass on top, slightly domed and antireflected inside • screwed sapphire glass base • oversized crown with embossed manufactory name
Dial • sterling silver, matt black lacquered finish • numerals and indexes numerals printed in white • oversized eccentric second display at “6 o’clock” with single edge• Numbers of hours covered with nightly glowing SUPER Luminova
Screws • flat polished, heat-blued with beveled edges • Glucydur screw balance with Nivarox-1-Spring • swan-neck fine adjustment on the hand-engraved balance cock
Hands • steel, hand-polished and heatblued
Strap • real high-quality leather, hand-stitched • stainless steel pin buckle
