America’s biggest luxury watch event is just days away! WatchTime New York is set to open its doors at Gotham Hall this Friday and Saturday (October 13-14), with 30 watch brands showcasing their newest timepieces. Among the exhibitors for the second year in a row is Glashutte-based Moritz Grossmann, which will unveil for the first time in the U.S. its new ATUM Pure Skull.
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As with previous models in Moritz Grossmann’s flagship ATUM Pure collection, the watch’s dial features two distinctive rings for the minute and hour indications. However, in this new model, a stylized skull motif in the dial’s center takes the place of its predecessors’ familiar ?Mesh? and ?Long Hole? dial inserts. The proprietary design offers dial-side glimpses of the movement, Caliber 201.1. The skull is milled and wire-cut with electrical discharge machines, its surface polished or sandblasted to match the case, and then assembled with the remaining dial elements ? a manufacturing approach that lends itself to incorporating other motifs or symbols motifs on future models’ dials. The lance-shaped, stainless steel hands, crafted by hand at the company’s Saxon manufacture, and are filled with black HyCeram to coordinate with the hour markers. Moritz Grossmann ATUM Pure Skull black
Moritz Grossmann’s manual-wound Caliber 201.1  is even more in evidence through the watch’s sapphire display caseback. Specifically ...