Concours Institut Horlogerie Cartier 2010Swiss Prize for up-and-coming watchmakers from A. Lange & Söhne
On 29 May in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the “striking mechanism” for a pocket watch by Janina Thiele was awarded the first prize of the Swiss watchmaking competition, “Concours Institut Horlogerie Cartier 2010” (IHC). Patrick Ritschel and Eric Geissler, two further apprentices from Lange, came fifth and sixth.
The IHC competition is held annually in Switzerland for budding watchmakers. And the Lange watchmaker school is the sole German training school permitted to compete against the Swiss. The theme of this year’s competition was the fabrication of an acoustic display system capable of displaying the change of the hour on a pocket watch.