Meistersinger 24 Hour slows time without doing a damned thing
Right here, right now, we may just be the only online space that claims to worship and adore watches and yet hasn’t provided its readers with a single word or pixel on the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH). We’ve said it before: we stroll, not run around here. We’ll get you to SIHH soon enough. The Cohiba Robustos are almost finished, we promise.
It was therefore most appropriate that in this moment of utter calm and insouciance in the face of online horlogical hysteria, German brand Meistersinger should choose to slow down time-telling even further. Without doing anything more than tweaking a dial design.
We’ve written about our enormous respect for the incredible elegance and purity of Mesitersinger’s one-handed delights, courtesy of founder and CEO Manfred Brassler. We’ve lunched with the man, admired his entire line-up before finally sitting down to crack a bottle of wine to discuss his creations. Our conclusion was that the man and the brand had managed to tell time in a manner so intuitive everyone else in the business has long since forgotten it.
So, you ask, what more can Meistersinger actually do? Another complication? Doing away with the single hand altogether?
Well, how about seeing a full day at a glance? By this we mean the entire 24-hour period to avoid having your little hour hand exhaust itself by moving round the entire dial twice in one day. We admit we did a double-take the first time we saw the press pack images. But yet again, Meistersinger have successfully slowed time down.
In a strictly limited edition (50), the 24 hour dial shows the time with 12 two-hour markings and generous quarter marks. Like all MeisterSinger watches the dial is available in four stylish colours, including MeisterSinger’s hallmark ivory, with a choice of a black or brown crocoprint leather strap. The recommended retail price is £2,375.
Yes, we like it when time strolls, not runs.
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