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| HD3 Complication Is the second mark developed by Jorg Hysek after it has left the
first, named after him. Hysek started as the independent designer of one of the
most known models of all times - Breguet Marine, TAG Heuer Kirium, Ebel Shanta,
Dunhill AD 2000, and many other things. Later he created his own watch company,
Hysek, has developed improbable models, including V-King, V-King Tourbillon, X-Ray,
XX-Ray. In February, 2006 Jorg Hajzek-designer has officially left Jorg Hysek-brand
and almost immediately has given life to HD3. This brand specializes in innovative
design, complex mechanisms and very limited editions of HD3 collections.
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Jorg Hysek and other HD3 designers, Valerie Ursenbacher, and Fabrice Gonet share
ideas, helping each other. They also have personal projects, and it is one of main
distinctive features of HD3 brand - during creation of the trilogy of a product
each designer creates own model. During first cycle Hysek has created Idalgo, Ursenbacher
- Capture, Gonet - Raptor.
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"Every year we let out a new product, - says Hysek. - HD3 is a creative brand. We
continue creating new cases and new watch designs. We continuously work on creation
of new concepts. We can do it all. But we will not turn HD3 into a large company,
and we won´t need financiers to run our business. Clients should pay in advance,
and we incur expenses for development. We have five people in the office, so our
overhead costs are insignificant. We begin manufacture only after we receive clients´
orders".
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Although Girard-Perregaux did not thrive during the 1970s and early 1980s, unlike other Swiss watch companies, Girard-Perregaux emerged even stronger than before and fiercely determined to continue producing high-quality mechanical timepieces using in-house movements at a time when many prestigious Swiss companies were looking to outside suppliers for their raw movements. The company’s efforts to upgrade their factory and train a new generation of master watchmakers to produce the highest quality wristwatches, was clearly a gamble -- but one which paid off handsomely when consumers re-discovered the pleasures of wearing traditionally hand-finished mechanical timepieces.
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HD3 (High Definition Trilogy) represents cooperation of three designers – Jorg Hysek
himself Valerie Ursenbacher, and Fabrice Gonet. This Trinity worked together within
fifteen years, and Hysek loves being in the environment, which gives him "food"
for his creative ideas. Hysek speaks, that watch design development process is a
very much complicated process in which teamwork is the key to success.
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"At the beginning there is a problem: we deal with something that doesn´t exist.
It is necessary to try to release the ideas - there are days when ideas simply travel
in your head, and it happens you don´t come up with anything creative. From a stage
of a sketch it is necessary to speak: this is good and this is bad – and continue
doing this all the way until you release a complete product.
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Engineering thinking here at anything - it is a question, more likely, of brainstorming.
For example, we developed model Idalgo one and a half year. The process of watch
creation has much in common with evolution".
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The watch that originally attracted many watch connoisseurs to HD3, was the
Capture.
In 2001 at Baselworld, they introduced the Capture 2, which was designed by
Valerie
Ursenbacher, one of the three designers at HD3 Complication. This watch comes in
three versions; white gold with black PVD accents, rose gold with black PVD accents
and titanium with white gold accents. All three versions are limited to 11 pieces
and come with a natural rubber or leather strap. The one (pictured above) and after
the jump is the titanium and white gold version with the natural rubber strap. It
costs $250,000 and was not sold out at the beginning of the show, but I am sure
all 33 pieces were sold out by the final day.
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