THE FASCINATION
OF A REVOLUTIONARY NEW IDEA

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In February 1993 René Quinting came up with the idea of designing a watch that was completely see-through from the dial to the back – a fascinating idea that has occupied the greatest minds in the watchmaking profession for more than 100 years. So it was that a succession of finely crafted skeleton-watches was born, each one with a mechanism more transparent than the last, edging ever closer to this grand goal. None, however, achieved total movement transparency.
	Taking up the challenge
	It soon became clear in the course of the development work that conventional watch-making materials and processes were of no use. For one thing, achieving a completely seethrough watch core first required a special process in which 12 layers of sapphire crystal are metallised and given an antireflection coating.
The completely new manufacturing technology was a huge challenge, and not just for the budding young QUINTING corporation. It was just as much of a tall order for the large number of componentry suppliers, who found themselves faced with a completely new technology. With the exception of 7 parts, including the hands, all the remaining QUINTING components, numbering about 230, and 26 sub-assemblies are manufactured exclusively for this world-first chronograph.
		Quinting, the world’s first completely transparent chronograph.

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