Une marque de haute-horlogerie découverte à Bâle...

La marque THOMAS PRESCHER était à Bâle. J'ai pu admirer quelques uns de leurs tourbillons évoluant sur les 3 dimensions...

Voici quelques images issues d'un CD-ROM offert sur place !












Located on Lake Biel’s shores, picturesque Twann lies nestled at the foot of steeply terraced hillside vineyards. This scenic area of Switzerland has not only been home to winemaking for centuries, but also various small and highly specialized watch manufacturers. The solitude and atmosphere of tradition surrounding the town, the natural beauty of its waterfalls and forest, made it an ideal location for the founding of Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie in 2002.

This decision to found an independent Swiss watchmaking workshop was naturally preceded by many years of intense study and apprenticeships. Having entered the German Navy at the age of 19 and finishing with the rank of captain six years later in 1991, Thomas Prescher decided the time had come to turn his passionate interest in watchmaking into a tangible reality.

Using the well-developed sense of discipline and planning attained during his time in the navy, he spent more than a year buying up dozens of old, broken clocks and watches, teaching himself to repair them, and reading technical books and articles in order to be able to compete for the single apprenticeship position that became available each year at IWC. Prescher was accepted, completing the four-year apprenticeship in only three as the year’s top student.

Prescher’s first real job in the industry was at Audemars Piguet’s German service center, where he remained for about one and a half years. This was followed by four years at Gübelin in Lucerne, where he not only specialized in the restoration of antique and complicated watches, but also the manufacture of custom-made timepieces. These tasks strengthened Prescher’s interest in complicated watches, which had already become a personal passion during his apprenticeship period. His sketchbooks from this period are filled with detailed drawings of single, double, and even triple axis tourbillons, which he was to later realize, as well as original designs for perpetual calendar and sidereal time movements.

By the time he founded his workshop, he was already well known in collector’s circles for his predilection for complicated watches. Complicated antique timepieces by the likes of Abraham-Louis Breguet, Thomas Earnshaw, Girard-Perregaux, Ferdinand Adolf Lange, John Arnold, Patek Philippe, Urban Jürgensen, LeRoy, Thomas Mudge, and Thomas Tompion regularly arrived in Twann for restoration.

Therefore it is not surprising that complications also form the basis of Thomas Prescher’s own wristwatch collection, which has yet to include a “normal” three-handed watch. His first creations, christened Tempusvivendi, were of the bras en l’air genre, based on a double retrograde complication first developed in the eighteenth century that features an artistically engraved or enameled scene on the dial, usually focusing on a centrally placed human or animal figure. When the button hidden in the crown is pressed, the extremities of the figure on the dial move to show the correct hours and minutes. When the button is released, the scene returns to its non-temporal resting state, the most attractive and anatomically correct position.

In 2003, Thomas Prescher was accepted as a candidate member of the illustrious AHCI—Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendents (Horological Academy of Independent Creators). That year at Baselworld, he exhibited both a double axis tourbillon pocket watch and a double axis tourbillon wristwatch, the first of their kind, and a bras en l’air wristwatch of the Tempusvivendi line at the AHCI booth.

The tremendously positive reactions to these works convinced him that the time was ripe to develop the Tourbillon Trilogy for Baselworld 2004. A triple world premiere, the set contained single, double, and triple axis tourbillons powered by in-house movements conceived and constructed by this independent master watchmaker. Not only did these wristwatch tourbillons include a constant force mechanism, the set also premiered a triple axis tourbillon wristwatch.

Thomas Prescher meanwhile offers individual tourbillons outside of the Tourbillon Trilogy, always completed according to the special wishes of his customers. The Tempusvivendi line now includes seven exquisite base models that can be customized as the client desires.

Prescher plans on continuing his work in this basic philosophy in the future, creating complicated timepieces with exceptional designs.

j'adore les montres de thomas prescher et ceux malgrè que ce soit des modéles modernes. et que je n'aime pas les tourbillons visible,chez lui c'est du grand art.
très belles photos en plus.

Waow, un tourbillon intégré comme ça, qui flotte dans le vide, sublime !
Moi qui n'apprécie pas d'habitude, je suis Sissou sur ce coup.

pétard !

j'ai les mêmes lunettes que lui ! c'est vrai que c'est dingue...

Ratkiller a écrit:

Waow, un tourbillon intégré comme ça, qui flotte dans le vide, sublime !
Moi qui n'apprécie pas d'habitude, je suis Sissou sur ce coup.

Moi j'y comprend plus rien. t'es qui alors, Ratkiller ou Sissou?










désolé, le

Saint-Just a écrit:

Moi j'y comprend plus rien. t'es qui alors, Ratkiller ou Sissou?


désolé, le

Je suis moi, je viens de chez moi, et j'y retourne

Ne pas confondre, à lavenir, "Je suis, tu suis......." avec "Je suis, tu es".

Le premier des deux est le verbe suivre.

Qui fonctionne très bien avec "suivre sa boule", à essayer au présent de l'indicatif

Très belle montre, qu'est ce tu appelle "moderne" Sissou?
Moi je trouve ces montres plutôt classiques.

Le tourbillon qui tourne autour d'un autre axe, c'est juste pou faire joli, ou c'est une inspiration du principe du Gyrotourbillon de JLC?

Je trouve ça superbe ...
Ca va chercher dans les combiens un petit joujou comme ça ?

mais je crois que savoir le prix de la chose risque de m'enlever un peu de la magie....et de me faire retomber dans la dure realite...allez va une bonne vieille seiko fera l'affaire....

Ca a l'air techniquement intéressant, mais je trouve le cadran d'une tristesse...

Ca façon de mettre en évidence le tourbillon est trés sympa ,mais moi aussi je trouve que le cadran n'est pa sterrible ,emplacement "Thomas P" mal situé...
Par contre ,j'aime le fait qu'il n'y a pas inscrit" tourbillon " .

la tourbillon 3.
il fait deux revolutions sur ses axes et une revolution autour de sa cage de verre.
superbe

sissou a écrit:

la tourbillon 3.
il fait deux revolutions sur ses axes et une revolution autour de sa cage de verre.
superbe

Je me permets de reposer ma question, vous ne sauriez pas si c'est juste un artifice esthétique, où si cette complication à un "réel intérêt" comme chez la Gyrotourbillon de JLC?

ce genre de complication n'a d'intérêt que pour le créateur et son acheteur mais n'apporte rien en precision de marche.
mais j'aime! cela ne s'explique pas,alors qu'une Breguet me laisse de marbre là...

sissou a écrit:

ce genre de complication n'a d'intérêt que pour le créateur et son acheteur mais n'apporte rien en precision de marche.
mais j'aime! cela ne s'explique pas,alors qu'une Breguet me laisse de marbre là...

Merci pour ton explication Sissou

Fred925 a écrit:

sissou a écrit:

la tourbillon 3.
il fait deux revolutions sur ses axes et une revolution autour de sa cage de verre.
superbe

Je me permets de reposer ma question, vous ne sauriez pas si c'est juste un artifice esthétique, où si cette complication à un "réel intérêt" comme chez la Gyrotourbillon de JLC?

Il me semble que l'intérêt technique d'un tourbillon (classique ou gyroscopique) est sujet à controverses. Tout le monde s'accorde pour saluer la prouesse technique mais son impact sur la précision est loin d'être évident.

Fred925 a écrit:

sissou a écrit:

la tourbillon 3.
il fait deux revolutions sur ses axes et une revolution autour de sa cage de verre.
superbe

Je me permets de reposer ma question, vous ne sauriez pas si c'est juste un artifice esthétique, où si cette complication à un "réel intérêt" comme chez la Gyrotourbillon de JLC?

"S' interroger de l'utilité de l'art , c'est peut être commencer à l'apprécier ! "

Henri

Pour augmenter la précision d'une montre il faudrait cumuler le tourbillon multi axe et la "résonnance".....................Le Truc de Fou.
tréve de plaisanterie ,la recherche de la précision absolu dans une mécanique ,cela relève à trouver le graal................c'est comme JLC avec son mouvement "sans huile" !!!

alain2701 a écrit:

La marque THOMAS PRESCHER était à Bâle. J'ai pu admirer quelques uns de leurs tourbillons évoluant sur les 3 dimensions...

Voici quelques images issues d'un CD-ROM offert sur place !












Located on Lake Biel’s shores, picturesque Twann lies nestled at the foot of steeply terraced hillside vineyards. This scenic area of Switzerland has not only been home to winemaking for centuries, but also various small and highly specialized watch manufacturers. The solitude and atmosphere of tradition surrounding the town, the natural beauty of its waterfalls and forest, made it an ideal location for the founding of Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie in 2002.

This decision to found an independent Swiss watchmaking workshop was naturally preceded by many years of intense study and apprenticeships. Having entered the German Navy at the age of 19 and finishing with the rank of captain six years later in 1991, Thomas Prescher decided the time had come to turn his passionate interest in watchmaking into a tangible reality.

Using the well-developed sense of discipline and planning attained during his time in the navy, he spent more than a year buying up dozens of old, broken clocks and watches, teaching himself to repair them, and reading technical books and articles in order to be able to compete for the single apprenticeship position that became available each year at IWC. Prescher was accepted, completing the four-year apprenticeship in only three as the year’s top student.

Prescher’s first real job in the industry was at Audemars Piguet’s German service center, where he remained for about one and a half years. This was followed by four years at Gübelin in Lucerne, where he not only specialized in the restoration of antique and complicated watches, but also the manufacture of custom-made timepieces. These tasks strengthened Prescher’s interest in complicated watches, which had already become a personal passion during his apprenticeship period. His sketchbooks from this period are filled with detailed drawings of single, double, and even triple axis tourbillons, which he was to later realize, as well as original designs for perpetual calendar and sidereal time movements.

By the time he founded his workshop, he was already well known in collector’s circles for his predilection for complicated watches. Complicated antique timepieces by the likes of Abraham-Louis Breguet, Thomas Earnshaw, Girard-Perregaux, Ferdinand Adolf Lange, John Arnold, Patek Philippe, Urban Jürgensen, LeRoy, Thomas Mudge, and Thomas Tompion regularly arrived in Twann for restoration.

Therefore it is not surprising that complications also form the basis of Thomas Prescher’s own wristwatch collection, which has yet to include a “normal” three-handed watch. His first creations, christened Tempusvivendi, were of the bras en l’air genre, based on a double retrograde complication first developed in the eighteenth century that features an artistically engraved or enameled scene on the dial, usually focusing on a centrally placed human or animal figure. When the button hidden in the crown is pressed, the extremities of the figure on the dial move to show the correct hours and minutes. When the button is released, the scene returns to its non-temporal resting state, the most attractive and anatomically correct position.

In 2003, Thomas Prescher was accepted as a candidate member of the illustrious AHCI—Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendents (Horological Academy of Independent Creators). That year at Baselworld, he exhibited both a double axis tourbillon pocket watch and a double axis tourbillon wristwatch, the first of their kind, and a bras en l’air wristwatch of the Tempusvivendi line at the AHCI booth.

The tremendously positive reactions to these works convinced him that the time was ripe to develop the Tourbillon Trilogy for Baselworld 2004. A triple world premiere, the set contained single, double, and triple axis tourbillons powered by in-house movements conceived and constructed by this independent master watchmaker. Not only did these wristwatch tourbillons include a constant force mechanism, the set also premiered a triple axis tourbillon wristwatch.

Thomas Prescher meanwhile offers individual tourbillons outside of the Tourbillon Trilogy, always completed according to the special wishes of his customers. The Tempusvivendi line now includes seven exquisite base models that can be customized as the client desires.

Prescher plans on continuing his work in this basic philosophy in the future, creating complicated timepieces with exceptional designs.

Avant de se mettre à son compte, Thomas était chef de production chez moi chez Blancpain.
Bravo pour ce qu'il fait!!!!