C1-BlackSpider http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog C1-BlackSpider Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:20:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 C1 BlackSpider Brillianthttp://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/c1-blackspider-brilliant/ http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/c1-blackspider-brilliant/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:17:40 +0000 concord http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/?p=507 The Sparkling Arachnid-mania Revelation

A brilliant new form of watchmaking life has escaped from the C Lab: The electrifying resplendent C1 BlackSpider Brilliant is out there. Thriving in the radiance of the city lights -meticulously spinning its web as it prepares to attract and capture its doubtlessly willing prey.

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]]> http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/the-assembled-movement/feed/ 0 Assembling the movementhttp://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/assembling-the-movement/ http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/assembling-the-movement/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:30:15 +0000 concord http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/?p=468 Do you remember the rough-set bridge and inner bezel ring I told you about a few days ago? They’re finished now and ready for assembly.

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Technically speaking, it is indeed well fitted. Aesthetically speaking, what do you think? Now imagine it in pink gold.

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The process is far more complex and involves up to 100 different operations.

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The various parts are made by classic machining, moulding, cutting, stamping with a hollow punch, or cutting with a water jet at a 3’000-bar pressure able to slice through virtually any material.  

The layers thus obtained are glued and the edges are turned.

  

 

 

]]> http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/441/feed/ 0 http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/447/ http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/447/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:20:31 +0000 concord http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/?p=447 And finally, come the stitching and heat embossing.

]]> http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/447/feed/ 0 Gemsetting the inner bezel ringhttp://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/gemsetting-the-inner-bezel-ring/ http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/gemsetting-the-inner-bezel-ring/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:00:14 +0000 concord http://www.c1-blackspider.ch/blog/?p=399  This functional and aesthetic model, also known as a flange, is so slender and fragile that it might have discouraged our gemsetter. He nonetheless brilliantly rose the challenge. The gemset zone is barely one millimetre thick!

This is how the bridges and inner bezel look once they are fitted together. All that remains are the finishing and colouring processes.

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