The Idea

The idea for a new FELDO product first appears in a handmade sketch done on a drawing table eg. luxury watches.

Project development

The product is then developed further with the help of CAD software.

When the project is finished, a 3D visual model is generated and the prototype is manufactured on that basis.

The test phase

During the this phase, the prototypes are mechanically tested and production costs are calculated.

When the prototype has passed all laboratory tests, the prototype passes to a limited production run.

A very special service:

FELDO luxury watches are subjected to strict measures of control as far as quality and functionality are concerned. These luxury watches will be with you for many years as an impeccable functional piece of jewelry. 

If, by chance, a defect appears at the luxury watch, you can resort to FELDO's special service by returning to the place where it was purchased or by contacting FELDO directly. 

     - They would be responsible for sending the watch back for repair and for returning it to you once it has been fixed.

     - Without any additional cost and anywhere in the world. 

Naturally, during the period of guarantee, the repair of your luxury watches would take place without any additional cost to you. Outside that period, and depending on the defect, you would receive a repair cost estimate. The special service of collecting and returning the watch, would still be without cost to you outside of the period of guarantee. Therefore there is nothing to worry about. 

Overhauling the luxury watches: 

The manufacture of luxury watches must meet specific measurements to within a thousandth of a millimeter. It is inevitable that such a mechanism is subject to a certain amount of deterioration over time. All the luxury watches, as much mechanical models as automatic ones, will therefore require inspection every four to five years, to verify the accuracy of the internal components, to clean the watch and possibly to adjust the mechanism. Depending on the retailer, this overhaul could be done by their watchmaker. 

The watchmaker can request sketches of the watch to assist with the overhaul, allowing them to manipulate the watch accurately. If they require a spare part, they can request them directly from FELDO. Doing an overhaul regularly ensures the watch retains its value and that it will continue to be enjoyed by future generations. All our luxury watches appear in the web pages of FELDO International: Montres de luxe, Timepieces, Luxusuhren, Relojes de lujo, Relojes de pulsera, Orologi di lusso, Relojes, Luxury watches, Armbanduhren, Relojes de diseño, FELDO news, Luxury goods, Designeruhren, Luxusuhr, Designeruhr, Wrist watches, Designer watches for men, Gemelos para camisa, Cufflinks, Wrist watches, Watches, Boutons de Manchette, Gemelli per camicia and Relojes de caballero are manufactured to meet the highest standards of quality.

Gold

This fascinating material has been used as jewelry for thousands of years and is used as an alloy in FELDO's exclusive luxury watches.

Ceramics used by FELDO emphasize the technical handmade quality that distinguishes FELDO's products. Ceramics are used in many technical areas from aeronautics to blades that are resistant to wear.

Carbon or carbon fiber is used in many technical fields, such as the material used to construct the bodies of Formula 1 cars and is also used in FELDO products.

In FELDO wristluxury watches, double anti-reflectant sapphire crystal is used. This does not radiate and is therefore the best material of watch crystals.

Kevlar, also known as aramida, is used in the security sector for bulletproof vests and is now in exclusive FELDO products.

Stainless steel is used as a modern alloy in many applications.

This well-known material acts like a shock absorber for oscillations and is also used in FELDO luxury products.

Due to its high durability and light weight, titanium is used in aviation and for astro-navigation, so it is an interesting material for all FELDO luxury watches.

This noble metal is an excellent heating material and an important conductor used in electro technics. Copper also has applications in FELDO products.

The movements

The mechanisms in FELDO luxury watches, whether manual, automatic or battery powered (depending on the model), are all high quality. They work accurately and by shaking.

FELDO luxury watches always come in a small, high quality box, with a velvet base, a compartment for the clock and a tray for documents (certificate of authenticity, guarantee and instructions of use).

The FELDO luxury watches come with a certificate of authenticity that confirms that the luxury watches has been manufactured according to the quality standards indicated.

The exclusive leather strap is perfect for the extraordinary FELDO watch.

Extras:

FELDO luxury watches essentially seduce by their extraordinary design and extra secure technology. Many watch manufacturers put the mechanism of the watch first.  Often the most important characteristics are new complications in design or at least ones that are established but improved upon.  

With FELDO, our luxury watches are designed using good technical mechanisms, attention is centered unequivocally on a different technical presentation, as nowadays even luxury watches serve firstly to tell the time and secondly as a piece of jewelry. 

Jewelry was very fashionable a thousand years ago and even today most people wear at least one piece of jewelry. The term jewel also refers to semi-precious stones which are often used to adorn more precious materials. Nowadays, jewels are used to embellish the appearance of an item.  In the past, however, aside from being of high material value, a jewel also had magical and even erotic value.  

Heads of families were normally adorned with the most expensive pieces of jewelry giving off an air of inaccessibility. Even today jewelry is used to show social status or to guarantee financial security. However, for most people a jewel is simply the most beautiful thing in the world. 

Let us return to the repercussions of luxury watches. Each suit at night becomes magnificent with an appropriate watch is being worn. These luxury watches are always rare. Designers produce the most unusual forms. The mechanism of the watch is its skeleton, the colours, the diverse forms and measurements are created and combined with diverse materials. In this way, a watch can be made to specifically suit each client.

Protection of the design: 

In each FELDO watch, we can always find, aside from its functionality, an original design or a special technical extra. These properties are protected by a patent once a new design has been created. This right of protection is granted by a Swiss institution and it's governed according to a European or a world-wide model. This reiterates the uniqueness and particularity of the watch and certifies its title as being an exclusive piece. 

The ABCs of a watch:

 

Anchor escapement

This ensures that the pendulum maintains a swing between 4¼-6¼, ensuring the pendulum remains accurate. 

Automatic luxury watches

An automatic or self-winding watch is a mechanical watch, whose mainspring is wound automatically by the natural motion of the wearer's arm, to make it unnecessary to manually wind the watch. Most mechanical luxury watches sold today are self-winding.

Bayonet clasp

A combination that fastens two pieces together by way of allowing one piece to slide and lock against the other.

Determination of time

A second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.

During the Prehistory man measured time. Our ancestors built stone colums so that when a start concurred the alignment of these columns, it indicated an important moment or date. Ancient egipcian pillars were elements whose shadow moved with the passing of the day and indicated the hours between dawn and sunset. The next step in the measuring of time was the creation of background watches which did not depend on stars to operate by themselves. Babylonian, egipcian, chinese and indian used a vessel of water, having a small hole in the bottom, so that the liquid dripped out drop by drop. As the level within the jar was lowered, it showed the time upon a scale and indicated the hours. Another kind of watch was the the sand-glass or hourglass which appeared approximately 500 years ago. Fine sand poured through a tiny hole from an upper into a lower compartment. When one of the funnel-shaped bowls had emptied itself--then waited with entire unconcern until some one stood it upon its head and caused the sand to run backagain. Another method used to measure time consisted on measuring time while a substance was consumed or burnt. The most famous of these watches type was the one formed by a graduated candle, however rope with knots and oil lamps with graduated depot were also commonly used. Mechanical watches with clock hands which slowly were moved by the action of gears firstly appeared some centurias ago. There is still available in Paris a clock created in 1364 to Charles V. In these primitive watches the movement was originated by means of a hanging weight which boosted a gear wheel whose teeth were placed perpendicular to its diameter. Two laminations called “pumps”, placed on a horizontal axis which oscillated, engaged the previously mentioned gear wheel teeth and regulated its movement. This was the first system used for watches as well as the weight was the first driving system. We also need to talk about the third essential system of a watch which is the oscillator in charge of the escape movements. In the primitive watch we are dealing with, this funtion was carried out by a jemmy fixed to the end of the escape axis (the one with the two laminations) which oscillated by the impulse produced by the teeth of the gear wheel. The oscillation duration was regulated by means of a slide weight fixed to the jemmy. These watches were sometimes innacurate due to their original mechanisms: escape and oscillation.
 

Quartz luxury watches

A quartz watch uses an electronic oscillator that is regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. This crystal oscillator creates a signal with very precise frequency, so that quartz clocks are at least an order of magnitude more accurate than good mechanical clocks.

Time

The measurement of time is so critical to the functioning of modern societies that it is coordinated at an international level. The basis for scientific time is a continuous count of seconds based on atomic clocks around the world, known as the International Atomic Time (TAI). This is the yardstick for other time scales, including Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is the basis for civil time. 

Time keeping

This indicates the general accuracy of a watch and can be determined over 24 hour periods at how well it keep time.  All types of luxury watches and watch movements have different time keeping abilities according to the technology being used. 

Tourbillon (or whirlwind)

A Tourbillon is a watch in which the entire escapement assembly rotates.