Eternity Mk1

Eternity Mk1 by Matthias Naeschke - noble and unique

The real challenges for a clockmaker are the grand complications. With a great deal of passion, enthusiasm and a good deal of patience, clockmaking highlights are created that can undoubtedly be described as luxury.

The new “Eternity Mk1” table clock from the Matthias Naeschke manufactory is part of the outstanding tradition of these complicated timepieces. It is once again proof of the craftsmanship and the striving for absolute quality and reliability of the experienced clockmakers.

The movement is built purely by hand by a single clockmaker. It takes several months before the highly polished, gold-plated movement can be assembled from hundreds of individual parts and brought to life. The smallest wheels and pinions are set in motion. Complicated levers and precise gear changes have to be brought into harmonious interaction and occur at the right time. It is these many details that require the clockmaker's absolute concentration and many years of experience. 

No fewer than seven different complications are combined in this table clock in a very small space. In addition to the local time, the clock has a half-hour striking movement and a world time display. A perpetual calendar and a calendar week display have also been integrated. Furthermore, it has a power reserve display for the movement and striking mechanism as well as an adjustable second time zone.

The basic idea behind the choice of these complications is our life in a globalised world. For example, family members or business partners are in faraway countries. So we are always dependent on a world time display or a fixed second time zone, and the strike of the delicate sounding bell made of silver bronze reminds us how our precious commodity, time, is passing. And it is not unusual for an appointment to have to be kept in a particular calendar week. This table clock is designed for precisely such events.

A great deal of attention to detail has also gone into the timelessly elegant design of the case and displays of this clock. Due to its complexity, the movement has two dials - one on each side of the movement. The applied numerals and display segments are carved out of sterling silver and artistically engraved by a master engraver with the corresponding numerals or lettering. Like the movement, they bear witness to a high level of craftsmanship and uncompromising quality. Fine, blued steel hands complete the face of the clock and, through their continuous movement, make visible what the elaborate mechanism behind them achieves.

Noble and absolutely unique - these are apt attributes for the complex case. The deep blue base is covered in intricate detail work by a highly experienced gemstone-cutting workshop with 139 individual plates and tiny flakes of wonderfully sparkling lapis lazuli gemstones. A delicate diamond pattern adorns the base of the movement. Wafer-thin golden inlays set additional shiny accents. The gilded glass shade with two doors and faceted glasses leaves nothing of the movement's consummate beauty hidden. From every angle, the clock offers the observer a fascinating insight into its complex mechanism.

A remarkable feature of the case is hidden inside the base. The entire clock floats - almost invisibly - about two millimetres above the table surface on a ball-bearing turntable. This makes it possible to turn the case effortlessly around its own axis with just one finger and thus, as required, to switch from one dial view to the other with ease.

The “Eternity Mk1” is a very well thought-out, decorative and useful table clock which, with a running time of two months, is also a real long-runner. With its compact dimensions, it is predestined to find its place on a nice desk, for example. Anyone who calls this complicated timepiece their own can be sure of owning an exceptional piece of horology. Matthias Naeschke clocks are not only unique, they are also rare. Because only a very few pieces leave the small, exclusive manufactory every year.