Master Clockmaker David Walter’s First Watch Is a Thing of Beauty
The White, with a movement based on a vintage Omega, will be offered as a subscription watch in a limited series of 38.
Source: Hodinkee
Originally published by Nicholas Manousos on Hodinkee.
For a moment, consider the double pendulum resonance clock. These extraordinarily accurate clocks use the resonance phenomenon with their two pendulums hanging in close proximity to each other, swinging in anti-phase. Besides being extraordinarily accurate, double pendulum resonance clocks are also extraordinarily difficult to manufacture and adjust. Through history, only a handful of these clocks have been made. David Walter has made five of them. He is unquestionably one of the finest clockmakers of the modern era, and now he is setting his sights on wristwatches.
Walter was born and raised in Perth, Australia. At age 15, he left school to begin a six-year apprenticeship as a watch and clock repairer. Perth is one of the most isolated major cities in the world, and Walter credits this for why he is so comfortable manufacturing clocks and watches by himself. With Perth’s isolation came exceedingly long and expensive shipping times. Ordering spare parts for a repair was often not realistic, so instead he worked on making those parts himself.