Wooden Watch with a Tourbillon by Valery Danevich

Valery Danevich, born in 1968 in Kiev, at first was a wood carver and been not related to watchmaking. However, it lasted until he decided to create a watch from wood. In 2008, Danevich produced his first pocket watch made of wood. To this day, he has released 15 models.

Wooden Watch with a Tourbillon by Valery Danevich

Prior to the annual watch exhibition BaselWorld 2013 on a personal Facebook page, he posted photos and videos of a new wooden wristwatch with tourbillon. The originality lies in the design of the novelty and materials: the whole case and the mechanism are entirely made of wood. In the manufacture of watches was applied 154 parts of 8 wood: burl birch, apple, walnut, apricot, Crimean boxwood, Guayaquil, Bubinga, bamboo. Only spiral is made of metal.

Wooden Watch with a Tourbillon by Valery Danevich

The novelty has a retrograde pointer of hours and minutes with applied Roman numerals to the right of the aperture, in which is rotating a tourbillon carriage. A transparent back cover reveals the beauty of the decorated caliber.

Wooden Watch with a Tourbillon by Valery Danevich

Precision of the wooden watch is different; it varies depending on their complexity. Time is set by means of the crown. To do this, just click on a lever placed on it.

Caseback of Wooden Watch with a Tourbillon

Valery Danevich spent about 1,800 hours to create the novelty.

Details of Wooden Watch with a Tourbillon

Price of the novelty is unknown. It should be noted that at the last exhibition in Basel his other watch with "flying" tourbillon appreciated for 100,000 Euros. His new wooden watch Danevich will present at the annual exhibition BaselWorld 2013.

Written by Angel