Introduction to MCT Watches – Geneva
Written by MCT Founder Denis Giguet for The Watch Lounge
MCT is leading the way for a new generation of young, dynamic Swiss watch brands. We believe in designing unique, distinctive watches which allow our customers to actually tell the time quickly and easily. Many expensive watches have appeared with weird and wonderful designs but they often have very little functionality. Our customers tell us that they now want to buy “real” watches, not pure objects of fantasy.
I am a passionate student of the last 200 years of Swiss high horology and I have great respect for the watches made by my peers. I aim to “change the
face of time” by using new and quite unique movements and visual displays, always featuring a large and distinctive Hour indicator.
The starting point for me in designing Sequential One was to develop and build
an exclusive in-house MCT movement which we have called the “Jumping Sequential Hour”. It is rare for Swiss watch brands to have their own movement but for me it is a pre-requisite for any authentic, high horology company.
Sequential One is a complex masterpiece where each function is based on a combination of elements rotating on three dimensional axes, at different speeds and moments. It is more complicated than a tourbillion and each timepiece takes many days to assemble in our Geneva Atelier.
The iconic watch front display comprises oversized Hour numerals on 20 visible prisms and a jumping, sapphire crystal dial, which combines with a single gold hand to indicate the Minutes. On the watch back, through the clear sapphire crystal, one can observe the beautiful movement and escapement, which features the enchanting Straumann double hairspring balance assembly. All bridges have been intricately finished in the centuries old «Côtes de Genève» style.
This unique timepiece is enhanced further by a delicate slice of clear sapphire crystal carefully sandwiched between the two elements of the watch case. This slice of crystal allows more light into the watch so that the movement may be seen more easily and it also breaks up the case, making it appear slimmer.
Our special system designed to accumulate and store power for the rotation of the Minutes disk is subject to an MCT patent. Energy is constantly being drawn from the movement by the display and it takes one hour of accumulated and stored energy to power a single 90° rotation of the Minutes disk. When fully hand wound, Sequential One has a power reserve of 40 Hours.
Sequential One also features the enchanting and extraordinary Straumann Double Hairspring Balance, which controls the rythym and equilibrium of the movement. This is an unique escapement which features two balance springs oscillating against each other. These springs are manufactured as a matched pair under optimal conditions which eliminates gravitational error.
I hope you enjoyed reading about MCT and Sequential One. Please send me any comments or questions : denis.giguet@mctwatches.com
For further information check out the MCT Watches website.
Editor’s Note: The Watch Lounge has been granted the amazing opportunity to interview Denis as well as the other masterminds behind the amazing Sequential One, Eric Giroud and Jerome Marcu. If you have any questions for these amazing minds please feel free to email them through to me or post them up in the comments section. Be quick though, as I will be finalizing my questions early next week!
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Incredible! Really looking forward to the interview. Sending some questions now.
Ramsay
Thanks Ramsay, I look forward to receiving your questions!