Reviews Interview with the Blaken CEO: Individuality is the highest form of luxury

GQ WATCHES: The two watches shown on these pages look different from what you usually know. What can you tell about the models?

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ALEXANDER KLINGBEIL: Both are Audemars Piguet models, which we have redesigned into unique pieces according to customer requirements. For the watch we call “drip-drop”, we sandblasted the bracelet and case and then coated it with DLC, which gives the Royal Oak a fantastically beautiful feel. The dial was sanded smoothly before it was given the very elaborate teardrop print. The casino clock was commissioned by an Asian customer who is passionate about games and therefore wants to put together a whole case with a wide variety of clocks on this topic. We are contributing one of them.

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Are custom-made products your main business?

It now accounts for around 30 percent, and the trend is rising. Many customers come to us first because they find DLC-coated, black watches exciting. But often more comes out of it. (Read here: These are the coolest watches in film history )

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From that research, I'm able to decide which approach to solving the problem works best for me and the organization. Then, I decide what actions need to be taken to solve the problem, and I start putting the process into motion while communicating with my managers and co-workers.”

In what way?

The feeling of happiness at buying a watch like this is sometimes relatively fleeting because there is no intense identification with the object. Realizing yourself and expressing yourself individually, on the other hand, is the highest form of luxury, and if I myself was involved in the creation process, then that is a lasting memory. In my opinion, the industry has forgotten something, and that is really asking customers what they want. Watch manufacturers primarily offer. It used to be different. And now we benefit from that. (Read here: 7 breathtaking watches under 1500 euros )

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A Blaken watch is also significantly more expensive, so one costs DLC-coated Rolex Datejust 36 around 12,900 euros.

There are several reasons for this. On the one hand, we are not a watch manufacturer, but primarily a service provider. If the customer does not have the underlying model himself, then we have to get it on the open market at the current exchange rate. Above all, however, our machining process is extremely complex. For the DLC coating, the watch is completely dismantled and micro-scratches are removed - by the way, every model has them, whether brand new or used. And the processing of the original dial is enormous. All in all, it takes at least six weeks to make a Blaken, but we've also been working on a watch for half a year.

What was it that took so long?

was for a customer from Hong Kong, a banker who is tough every day. With us, however, he developed a watch that his family had on the subject of a wide variety of expressions. For example, one of his daughters is called "Rose", which is why a rose was engraved on the back of the case and filled with ceramic.