RGM Pennsylvania Series 801-CE Classic Enamel: American-Made and L.A.-Bound
The West Coast’s biggest watch-connoisseur event of the year is just over a week away. The inaugural WatchTime Los Angeles show will be held on May 3-4 at Downtown L.A.’s Hudson Loft, with 27 watch brands exhibiting their wares ? including Lancaster, PA-based RGM, which will be represented at the event by its founder, American watchmaker Roland G. Murphy. Among the U.S.A. brand’s highlight timepieces will be the new Classic Enamel model from its flagship Pennsylvania Series.
RGM PS-801-CE Classic Enamel
The watch features a “double sunk” enamel dial, constructed of three separate pieces that have been soldered together ? a technique used on pocketwatch dials dating back 100 years or more. RGM achieves the dial’s classical look by employing the grand feu (French for ?Great Fire?) enamel process, a high-risk art performed by a highly skilled craftsman. The enameling process typically begins with colored, powdered glass applied to a metal plate, after which the plate?s surface is heated to a temperature high enough to melt the powdered glass to form a new surface. The grand feu technique raises the stakes, with repeated baking of successive layers of enamel at extremely high temperatures ? ensuring a distinctively crisp aesthetic while permanently setting the enamel. Of course, using such extreme heat to create the dials also poses a daunting challenge to the dial-making artisan: each time the dial is re-fired, the danger of its cracking, me...
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