Tutima new Glashütte Hommage Minute Repeater

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Glashütte Hommage Minute Repeater

The history of Tutima begins in Glashütte and, after a 65-year absence, in 2008 Tutima returned to Glashütte with a new factory building located a stone's throw from its original location. Since 2008, Rolf Lang and his Glashütte production team have worked on a highly complicated, limited edition timepiece to honour the company's founder Dr. Ernst Kurtz: the Tutima Hommage Minute Repeater. The Tutima Hommage is the very first minute repeater fully conceived, designed and produced in Glashütte.
DR. ERNST KURTZ
The lawyer Dr. Ernst Kurtz founded Tutima in Glashütte in 1927. In 1945, after the Allied Forces divided the country, Dr. Kurtz moved Tutima to West Germany where he continued to produce watches on the basis of modern Glashütte traditions. His colleague, Dieter Delecate, continued the Tutima success story through the difficult market of the 1970s, when the advent of quartz watches forced many watch factories in Europe to close down. Over the years, Dieter Delecate gradually expanded the business into a global group of companies. And now, after more than 65 years, Tutima has returned to Glashütte.

THE KING OF COMPLICATIONS
In the more than 165-year history of watchmaking in Glashütte, many a pocket watch has been produced with quarter-hour or minute repeater, but never before has the repeater mechanism been designed and developed in the watchmaking mecca of Germany.

The movement and case are the result of development work, headed by Rolf Lang, former chief restorer at the Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments in Dresden and a leading authority of watchmaking in Saxony. Lang has an unparalleled knowledge of the outstanding quality of classic precision watches from traditional design. His experience and passion are evident in the Tutima Hommage Calibre 800.

Each component is a meticulous work of art on its own. From the raised hand engraving, to the beveling of levers, springs, screws and pins to the hand tin polish, each element exemplifies a practice and tradition not seen since the 19th century. On this musical note, Tutima has again taken its rightful place within a grand watchmaking tradition that began in 1845.
A SONG SLUMBERS WITHIN
A minute repeater tells the time by means of acoustic signals produced by two gongs, one of which is tuned to a lower tone (concert pitch C), and the other to a higher tone (concert pitch A). A slide on the case activates a repeating mechanism which reads the information on the dial and activates a harmonious striking mechanism, without draining power or affecting the accuracy of the movement. The hours are indicated by the lower tone, the quarter-hours by a by the chiming of the higher tones. The combination of the 550 individual parts come together to operate in perfect accord, maintain a striking rhythm and achieve the ideal tone each and every time – a true musical work of art.

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[Patrizio]

moooooooolto bello...
se nn ci fosse scritto tutima .... che stona

[fabri5.5]

ma non è una ripetizione minuti,
manca la chiocciola e il rastrello dei minuti.

[Patrizio]

infatti se leggi è una ripetizione a quarti...

si sa quanto viene il pupo?

[fabri5.5]

non avevo letto
i forum francofoni parlano di 168.000e

[Patrizio]

azz....

[Airangel]

beh per un tutima li spenderei.......

[Bertroo]

    ma chi lo compra??

[Patrizio]

se ci fosse scritto patek faremmo la scia di bava come le lumache

[Bertroo]

se ci fosse scritto patek faremmo la scia di bava come le lumache

 
certo...e ti pare poco una scritta per quel prezzo??? io mi riferivo a quello!

[Airangel]

se ci fosse scritto patek faremmo la scia di bava come le lumache

chiaro....

[Patrizio]

cmq il movimento mi ricorda molto moser non so perchè