May be 50 percent of your new year’s resolution you gave up already. Or you did not even have some this year. Don’t worry! You don’t need a new year to start again. Often, it’s not the future we are afraid of. Its repeating the past that makes us anxious.
For all those who love gold more than stainless steel for your favorite watch. For the very first time here are our basic models available in 750 rose gold dress.
And here one more very new thing: specially made for one of my very good clients.
Our first bespoke Guilloche Regulator in 750 rosé gold case. Thanks to Jochen Benzinger who made this wonderful dial! He is really an artist in his craft!
For me, I am using this new start into a new year 2017 for going deeper into the traditional craftsmanship of making watches. After all good and challenging moments in 2016 I am looking forward to what will come in 2017. I will continue doing the things I am good in watchmaking and continue to improve them. Building upon the past, I am also curious and there are still so many things I want to do for the very first time. For some of them it’s time in 2017.
I wish you all the best for the new year of 2017 in doing something the very first time!
Yours
Steffen Cornehl
]]>Imaging, all thing in your life would happen at once. How many years do you have on your clock? 25, 35, 45, … 65 or even more. But no matter how many years, if all these moments, good and not so good once, will happen at once … it sounds not really enjoyable.
So I got my time. 24 hours a day. 365,2422 days per year. How many years? Nearly 41 until now. How many more? I dont know. But what I am going to do with my time? I did not ask for it! I got my time for free. It's rather than a gift to me. But the question remains: what should I do with my time?
I often hear: Time is short, time is precious, time is money, time is more precious than money, time is … it goes on and on. And slowly I start to run faster, do everything quicker, strive for effectiveness, and efficiency. Whatever that means. And the result is: I experience so many thing in a very short time, that I cannot remember nor enjoy the single moment. I often forget what I did last week. When somebody ask me what I did last week, I take out my shedudle to remember. The only thing that I remember is: it was stressfull. I had no time to take a moment and thing because so many things need to be done.
When it happened to you as well, that in your daily life you get under time pressure, because things had to be done or deadlines are coming, remember the Anglo-Manx phrases (with is spoken on he Isles of Men): Traa-dy-Liooar – (Trah the looar) meaning: "time enough" Probably it was not by chance that one of the greates watchmaker of the last centory, George Daniels moved from London to the Isles of Men.
A watchmaker has a very special view towards time. At least I realized, there is something unique when I look into an old grandfather’s clock, a historic marine chronometer or an antique pocket watch. The clock- or watchmaker put a lot of his lifetime into his time piece to finish it. He is doing this although some parts of the watch nobody sees. All the parts under the dial are invisible for the owner of the piece. Only the next watchmaker sees it and enjoys it, when he takes the mechanism apparat for servicing. Why the maker put so much effort and so much time into his creation? Probably because he just enjoyed it. And because he knew: I have enough time. Why not spending it to create something very beautiful and precious, that will defiantly last for generations. And quality cannot be achieved quickly. It takes time.
As a watchmaker I learn from our forefathers and realize every day more and more how much time it takes to create a beautiful time piece. To make my first precision pendulum clock it took me 4 years. I would never have started when I would have known, it takes me so long. But once you ride the tiger, it’s hard to get off. I finished it in the year 2001.
Nowadays I 'm working more on wrist watches. Creating and finishing them by hand. This takes even more time. But it is a great joy to creat something with your own hands, behold it and see: It was all good!
You can take part! Take some of your time to enjoy the beauty of the creation and to see the world through the eyes of the creator. May it be a watchmaker or any other artist.
Yours
Steffen Cornehl
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²Variously attributed to Woody Allen, Albert Einstein, John Archibald Wheeler, and Anonymous
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If you are not sure, whether your dreams will ever come true, just start to live in the direction of your dreams. Martin Luther King said once: “I have a dream …!” And this dream was so powerful, that it changed an entire country. Start changing in your life by taking one step at the time. Whatever your step today might be!
Have a good day ahead!
Steffen Cornehl
]]>It's a new morning and it's great to wake up and know: It's up to me how I use this brand new day. Ok, sure! We all have a lot of obligations that keep us busy and make us thinking our life is remote controlled. But when you close your eyes and open your nose, you can ... smell the opportunities of this day!
Enjoy this day!
S. Cornehl
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The same with time! Time is very precious as my lifetime is defiantly limited. But I cannot keep it or save it. It’s one of the most common lies we believe today: “I save my time, when I …“ Read the book or watch the movie “Momo and the time thieves” from Michael Ende Take some time and think! Can you save time? We have to spend it. We have to spend it!
Have a great day and spend your time wisely!
Steffen Cornehl