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During a period in time when the VW Beetle still dominated the streets of Germany and the average citizen was decorating the walls of his or her domicile with brightly patterned wallpaper, engraver and designer Georg Bunz was attracting attention with his jewelry creations that expressed the art of "leaving out" in clean shapes and the use of large, unusually cut precious gems. Bunz combined the common jewelry metal gold with a metal that was much more difficult to work platinum - thus helping the white precious metal to a quick breakthrough on the German market.
The addition of his own watch line to the unusual jewelry collection seemed mandatory, and in the year 1987 Bunz was able to create the bridge between a decorative accessory and a watch serving a more practical purpose with an invention that caused quite a stir.
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From the very first, and in the truest sense of the word, the diamond became the focal point in the development of an exclusive collection, being placed at the center of the watch crystal so as to cover the center arbor and thus functioning both as a geometrical and a visual high point of the case's shape. The invisible settings of the cut stones were a trademark of the Bunz Collection for a long time.
That the watches were not simply to be regarded as a by-product of the Bunz jewelry collection seems to have been made clear to all watch lovers since the launching of the spectacular Moontime in 1993. The technicians at Bunz Montres in Littau near Lucerne, with the aid of freelancer Dr. Ludwig Oechslin, created a moon phase indicator whose threedimensional moon possessed a light and dark side and rotated around the dial during the course of a complete lunar cycle. With this timepiece, they realized not only the fulfillment of an ancient dream of watchmakers and astronomers, but also the smallest epicyclical mechanism of this kind and the most accurate moon phase display to date.
Bunz timepieces are still designed and created in Swabia's Dobe!. The beautifully designed architecture of the three-storey building in the northern Black Forest region allows the creative artists and craftsmen to work undisturbed in an atmosphere of idyllic peace and tranquility, inspired by uncluttered, tastefully furnished rooms bathed in light, providing a creative environment.
The most important line of the Bunz Collection is Design Time. The less expensive, but otherwise unchanged, versions of the typical Bunz timepiece are watches that have a solid case core of steel dressed in gold or platinum and decorated with a broad-rimmed bezel sporting applied colored markers. Today's models, sporting mechanical movements and interesting displays and complications, round up' the program. All Bunz watches have the high quality of the design with their almost strict geometry that also flatters the company's modern jewelry line in common.
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Bunz Collection
75335 Dobel, Germany
Tel: (011-49) 7083-922 80
Fax: (011-49) 7083-43 38
wwww.bunz.de
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