America?s largest luxury watch extravaganza, WatchTime New York, is returning for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 25 ? 26, 2019. This year?s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Germany’s Moritz Grossmann, who will be showcasing the Hamatic, its first-ever automatic timepiece.
Moritz Grossmann makes less than 500 watches each year. Until now, the German brand had only offered hand-wound timepieces in its various collections. That has changed with the official introduction of the Hamatic, Moritz Grossmann’s first foray into the world of automatic timekeeping.
Introduced as a prototype in 2018 after nearly three years of development, the Hamatic features a brand-new, in-house produced movement named Caliber 106.0 that utilizes a unique, self-winding hammer system similar in execution to Abraham-Louis Bregeut’s perpĂ©tuelle pocketwatches. The newly developed movement uses a pendulum-style hammer weight to transmit energy through a consistent back-and-forth movement similar in motion to a seesaw. The Moritz Grossmann Hamatic.
The design of the hammer system, which is visible through the sapphire crystal exhibition caseback, is large, oval shaped, and takes up almost the entirety of Caliber 106.0’s total diameter. This means that the movement’s center of mass is further away from its rotational ...