99.1

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This is the 38.5mm by 11mm regulator from Dornbluth & Sohn. I never really liked their watches for their size, thickness and polarizing dial design. But this.. wow... and for the price? I need to remind myself that watches and wonders is less than half a

With custom ceramic dial Probably deserve more attention ! Any one else love dornbluth ?

. . . that met up for supper last night. My grey 99.1M on top, Timerider's early production 99.1 below.

I don’t see many posts about Dornblüth on this site, and I can understand that given the relatively tiny size of its operations. But I really have to give the small manufacture credit for making some beautiful watches, and selling them at comparatively re

Just to share a custom ceramic salmon pink colour dial with pantograph engraved markers painted with blue colour lacquer …

. . . "Future Vintage". Please share the watch (or watches) in your collection that you feel will be considered vintage classics in the future. Fifteen years ago, one of my friends asked Dirk to prepare a mock-up of a Dornblüth 99.1 with a grey dial, appl

. . . so large, it's because 49.2 mm is the size the case has to be in order to center the sub-seconds hand of what is essentially a Unitas 6498 movement. In other words, it's a leviathan because it has to be. Interestingly enough, the Dornblüth 99.1 . .

. . . the concept was hatched about fifteen years ago . . . [grey 99.1 mock-up prepared by Dirk in 2006] . . . but it took a dozen years to finally get off the drawing board. I feel it was worth the wait ;-) . . .