Moritz Grossmann celebrate their 10th Anniversary in style

Press Release – Baselworld 2018

Moritz Grossmann celebrate their 10th Anniversary in style

Innovative Glashütte manufacture launches luxurious and original limited editions of their original BENU

Moritz Grossmann’s spirit was reborn in Glashütte in 2008. The BENU was the new manufacture’s very first watch – developed literally at Christine Hutter’s kitchen table.  10 years on, we present three limited edition BENUs:  the BENU ‘Anniversary’ – two luxurious enamel pieces with a limitation of ten pieces in platinum and a further ten in white gold; and the BENU ‘Lost in Space’ – an imaginative, eccentric hybrid piece, limited to 26 pieces.

BENU Anniversary – dark enamel dials in platinum and white gold cases

The classic style of the BENU is made for luxurious treatments.  Both of these anniversary specials have unusual dark-coloured, grand-feu enamel dials sitting within pale cases in precious metals.

For the platinum case, the dial is executed in deep blue – an unusual enamel colour that demands the utmost artisanship. The white gold version has a powerful black dial – strong and classic.  The rare surface gloss will make any watch enthusiast’s heart skip a beat, whilst the clean white numerals and polished stainless steel hands make each watch clean to read.

Both models have a display back that showcases the calibre 100.1 with its usual High-Artistic finish – but with an eye-catching twist. The hand-engraved balance cock is crafted in yellow gold instead of the usual German silver, providing a special complement to the raised gold chatons.

BENU ‘Lost in Space’ – celestial, eccentric hybrid

The third anniversary watch is an adventure in proportions. It is a hybrid of the small calibre 102.0 with a diameter of merely 26.0 mm and the case from the rose gold BENU Tourbillon, diameter 44.5 mm.  

The movement sits behind a hand-crafted dial which resembles a moon, floating off-centre within the case.  It is rendered in hand-cut relief engraving with an intriguing 3-D curved surface. Two sub-dials in contrasting grand-feu enamels sit on the moon’s surface.  The hour and minute display, in BENU styling, a placed centrally in radiant white enamel. A small seconds dial in contrasting black enamel face sits at seven o’clock.

The movement and the dial sit within holder ring, which contacts the case at the winding crown and is fixed elsewhere to the case by four architectural struts.  The struts and the ring are made from a specially treated alloy that looks like it might have fallen from space itself.

The overall effect is of an eccentric, celestial timepiece moving trough the void.

BENU ‘Lost in Space’ is available in a 26-piece limited edition, commemorating the passage of time since Moritz Grossmann’s birth in 1826.