“Watchmaking From The Lowlands” (Hodinkee)
30 mei 2014 – “There’s something about horology and Holland. In the early days of watchmaking, Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, was a contemporary of scientific giants like Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke, and has a place in the pantheon of the greats of horology.
And while Holland never became a hub of industrialized watchmaking like Switzerland or parts of Germany, it is still the home of many important horological innovators – watchmakers like Christiaan ven der Klaauw, the Grönefeld brothers, and perhaps less well known to most, Mr. Wybe Van der Gang.
Van der Gang is a relatively new player in the watch game, starting in the early 2000s and developing in house movements from 2008. But they certainly have what HR departments would call “transferrable skills” – Van der Gang started making precisely engineered mechanical parts, aerospace, medical and military industries. So the exacting mechanical standards and fine tolerances that are de riguer in watchmaking are right up Van der Gang’s alley.”