Introducing The Habring x Massena LAB ERWIN LAB03 (ft. Joshua N. Shapiro)
There are collaborations, and then there are collaborations. This latest project from Massena LAB falls into the later category (we couldn?t even fit all involved parties in the title). The ERWIN LAB03 is a Habring production in partnership with Massena LAB, with a dial by Joshua N. Shapiro, and a chronometer certification by none other than the Horological Society of New York. It?s also quite a looker. This is the third Massena LAB X Habring watch, and it continues to build on a good thing, but there?s plenty to unpack here, including a few firsts.
The dial here is a collaboration within the collaboration, having been designed by Mr Massena, and produced by Joshua N. Shapiro of J.N. Shapiro in California. The dial itself is bronze, which provides the salmon color we usually see from copper plating. This is the first bronze dial to be produced by Shapiro, which receives his signature basketweave pattern at its center, each engine-turned individually on an 80-year-old straight-line guilloché machine. This old-school execution requires deft hand, and further receives a grained finishing using an elusive Water of Ayr stone.
Large Roman numerals appear at the cardinal hours only in a deep blue color. Blued Breguet style hands track against navy indexes at the dial?s perimeter, offering a sufficiently classic aesthetic to the watch as a whole. The dial is labeled Habring at the top and J.N. Shapiro at the bottom before placement in a 38.5mm steel case that?s been ful...
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