Grönefeld Exclusive Timepieces
GTM-06 featuring minute repeater with cathedral gongs and tourbillon
The name Grönefeld and the art of watchmaking have a family history spanning nearly one hundred years, originating in the small and ancient town of Oldenzaal located in The Netherlands. It is there, in a shop directly under the view of the ancient basilica church and its tower dating from 1240, that the grandfather of the present watchmakers, Johan Grönefeld, began his career as a watchmaker in 1912.
This marked the beginning of the small and highly talented dynasty of Grönefeld watchmakers, which reaches to the present day with the brothers Bart and Tim Grönefeld. Their workshop is located in the same building as that used by Johan Grönefeld, representing a continuous, unbroken watchmaking family history that is exceptionally rare to find anywhere in the world today.
Both Tim and Bart Grönefeld underwent extensive training in Switzerland, and within a relatively short span of time proved themselves adept world specialists in the production of the most coveted and exquisite horological creation of all: the tourbillon minute repeater wristwatch. Working anonymously behind the scenes, they have created such pieces for many of the greatest watchmaking houses of Switzerland.In 2008, after four years of development, Bart and Tim presented the GTM-06, first watch bearing their own name.
Grönefeld Exclusive Timepieces is also the very first and only brand in Holland ’s history able to offer a Grand Complication wristwatch of this extreme mechanical intricacy.
With its musical nature, utilizing miniature hammers and cathedral gongs to chime the hours, quarters and minutes as requested by the user, in combination with a tourbillon regulating device, the Grönefeld tourbillon minute repeater makes mechanical demands on watchmakers that go far beyond the majority of watches on offer today. Only a handful of watchmakers in the world, either inside or outside of Switzerland , are able to deal with horological creations comprising this type of extreme complexity.
Grönefeld Exclusive Timepieces
品牌故事
Grönefeld這是源自於歐洲一個擁有近百年的製錶家族，來自於荷蘭的小城鎮奧登茲奧Oldenzaal。1912年創辦人Johan Grönefeld開始了他的製錶職業生涯。而Grönefeld這標誌，到了今天由其二兄弟Bart Grönefeld & Tim Grönefeld將過去以往那製錶的工藝再次發揚光大。現在他們的製錶工作室是由Grönefeld家族的先祖於1240年所建立的大樓，這代表一個歷史的傳承及不間斷的家族製錶技藝，是當今鐘錶歷史上罕見的一個故事。
Tim and Bart Grönefeld過去在瑞士學習了更高超的製錶技術，並在2008年創造出GTM-06 tourbillon minute repeater wristwatch世界上最令人垂涎的精美鐘錶，更印證了自己的專業製錶生產技術和創造能力：大教堂三問陀飛輪腕錶。
Grönefeld是第一個在荷蘭發展的頂級鐘錶品牌。GTM-06 tourbillon minute repeater wristwatch這是只好的三問腕錶，以憑藉其大教堂音聲的性質，利用微型問錘和大教堂專用響條，可應對於時、刻、分鐘並依裝置可依序聲響並結合陀飛輪擺輪調節裝置，來展現出其優異的準確性及聽覺音聲，Grönefeld三問陀飛輪，就是一款這樣複雜的錶款，也是在市面少數的頂級鐘錶藝術製品。
結論
從他們所製造的GTM-06 tourbillon minute repeater wristwatch，我想對於Tim and Bart Grönefeld二兄弟來說，可說是煞費苦心所完成的作品，他們用了很高檔來自於瑞士製錶大師Christophe Claret工作室所提供的基礎機芯，當然，這一組機芯有很高的市場評價，有很多人會有一種錯誤的觀念，就是認為製錶師從其他機芯供應商買來就裝置上去，好像沒有什麼了不得的，但是很多人不知道，機芯買來每一個零件必須要再次加工、修飾、測試，方才成為自我風格的品牌作品，這一個過程難度及耗時可不亞於再次製造一枚機芯!!
三問錶的聲響、擊點是其一優劣的關鍵，而陀飛輪運轉的準確度更是一種考驗，當二者合而為一時，整合更是一種考驗製錶師的能力，但我相信他們二兄弟的整合能力，這可以從此腕錶內外的每一個細節零件可以嗅出端倪。
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