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 The Swiss Angular Momentum manufacture has produced the “Peinture en Grisaille” watch collection. The following techniques were used in the models' production: Verre Eglomise and Grisaille.
The Verre Eglomise decorative crystal execution technique consists in the following:
• the crystal's back side is covered with a layer of gold or silver foil;
• different pictures, images, traceries, ornaments are carved in the applied foil layer.
Glass gold-plating is a very labor-consuming technique, it requires pinpoint accuracy and high level of craftsmanship. Using this non-traditional decoration technique transforms a watch into a natural realistic miniature. The miniature pictural art comprises masterful execution of small painting details in a way to make the image close to reality, independently of its size.
Decoration in Grisaille style (the French “Grisaille” from “gris” – “grey”) assumes creating images with the help of single-coloured enamel of different tones (most often, grey colour is used). Applying of this technique lets you add volume to the image.
Grisaille technique was often used by classicism epoch architects to imitate sculptural relief.
The Peinture en Grisaille watch collection models' sapphire crystals' inner surfaces have the implied images of Baroque and Rococo epochs' pictural art miniatures. All miniatures are executed by hand.
The thin line between watchmaking and pictural art is eliminated by Angular Momentum Peinture en Grisaille watches. Their aesthetic constituent is drawn on the foreground against the technical “bells and whistles”.
The round cases with 39-mm diameter are made of stainless steel. Time indication is executed not by 3-dimensional indication with the help of central hands but by the Revolving-Disk-System (or R.D.S.) time indication system.
This time indication system was invented by Angular Momentum company in 1997. The invention was patented in Switzerland (patent number CH 686988). The R.D.S. technology was used in the Pioneer collection's watches for the first time.
Thanks to the innovative indication system, time is traced not by central hands, but by a rotating disk, indexing the hour. The revolving hour disk is supplied with a minute track with 12 time indexes, moving along the hour track. The disk revolves clockwise, that's why the numeric marking is applied in reverse order.
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