Line History
Presented in 2016, the Erwin is the second Habring2 model to house a caliber developed in-house by the Austrian manufacture, after the introduction of the Felix in 2014. It also came about as a response to a shift in the movement market: when the Swatch Group decided to progressively reduce the supply of calibers to third-party brands, the Habring couple accelerated the development of their own movement family, the A11, to secure full production independence.
Based on the A11 caliber, the Erwin introduces the deadbeat seconds complication (in German "springende Sekunde"): a mechanism that advances the seconds hand with a sharp jump, once per second, rather than with the usual continuous motion of traditional mechanical watchmaking. It is a complication historically associated with precision and chronometry instruments, here reintroduced by Habring2 as a distinguishing trait of an essentially "time and date" watch.
Consistent with the understated approach that characterizes much of the Habring2 catalog, the Erwin has been offered since launch in two main dial variants: one with a fine-grained, silver-white finish and baton indices, and one in brushed metal with rose-gold-plated indices, both fitted on a case in Austrian-made Böhler steel.
Technical Specifications
Main Executions
Deadbeat seconds is a complication that, paradoxically, visually imitates the "tick" of a quartz movement — while being achieved by purely mechanical means, through an escapement system that accumulates and releases energy once per second. Historically it was a solution prized for its legibility in scientific and chronometric contexts, well before the spread of quartz movements.