The creation of Scatola del Tempo goes back to the late 1980s and was a chance, in this case, not as a result of a conscious diversification of an existing company, or even a marketing decision. Scatola del Tempo was born of desire and inventiveness of a watch collector, Sandro Colarieti, who needed the same quality of sets its watch collection. Unable to find such boxes on the market place, he decided to make them himself, using local craftsmen and materials of the highest quality.

Initially, he made a small series of boxes, giving those he did not need for himself to friends. After some time, requests for similar watch boxes began to arrive. Thus Scatola del Tempo, with its luxury goods "Made in Italy", was born and is known and appreciated today on five continents.

This story is about objects designed with real depth knowledge of what they are intended to contain. This is pure quality, using the manual skills of the best artisans using the finest leathers and most prestigious silks, woven into the company Colarieti family textile and is innovative technical solutions to match the classic taste and elegance boxes.

In the production cycle, it all starts with the design of internal shapes and sizes in order to accommodate almost all styles of watches available today, for storage and safe transport.

Each mold is first covered with a shock absorbing material, and the soft jacquard silk, designed exclusively for boxes Scatola del tempo. This operation is delicate and handmade with years of experience. The boxes are then covered with leather, briar wood or zebrano, with particular attention paid to the paints used for wooden boxes to ensure they do not cause oxidation in watches that will be there stored.

Other details such as fasteners and zippers are also manufactured in exclusive designs and are refined with a gold plating or palladium to ensure a lifetime of use and wear.

The crown was in 1990 and the concept has been designed to maintain the operation moves in automatic models, including time and date functions, which is particularly critical for perpetual calendar models. Until this innovation, there was nothing available on the market for collectors comfortably place their watches on winders in a safe or compact enough to take a trip.

 

Sandro Colarieti created the 1RT model, the first of a long series of reels boxes of different sizes and designs, which was an immediate success. Most houses the most famous Swiss watch began using winders Scatola del Tempo, Patek Philippe immediately winders commander to provide their most prestigious watches.

The watches are equipped with high precision micro-motors, governed by microprocessors that can rotate the windings clockwise and anti-clockwise. Most offer 10 programs, varying the number of hours of operation of the reel over a 24 hour period and the number of rotations per hour. All models can be powered by alkaline batteries and all the biggest by the sector via a transformer. These engines are made exclusively for Scatola del Tempo in Switzerland, using specialized staff who are expressly working on these products. The main features are low power consumption, reduced discharges of magnetic fields and extraordinary reliability.

Models with fully visible movements and all brass gears for the entire range are also designed and manufactured in Switzerland. The precision with which the components and the windings are manufactured is guaranteed by the sophisticated machines and the highly qualified personnel which also manufactures the cages for the movement of tourbillon watches.

The assembly of all the models of the Scatola del Tempo collection is carried out in their workshops in Italy, as well as the quality control of all other materials, including leather, silk, the root of heather, the wood of Zebrano and brass and operation of mechanical parts. .

The essential concept on which Scatola del Tempo is based is that nothing in the design or construction of its products is underestimated or left to chance. From the ergonomics of the watches, to the choice of the best bristles, clasps, leathers, wood veneers and electronics and the mechanics of rotors, each piece is made with the greatest care and commitment in every detail.

During its creation in 1989, Scatola del Tempo had only one ambition: to protect the most beautiful pieces of time. Born from the passion of a great collector of watches, the Italian society has revolutionized its world by creating windings capable of adjusting the most complex mechanisms. Made from valuable and elegant materials such as leather and poplar wood, the Scatola del Tempo windings are today reference in the world of Haute Horlogerie. Available in many models, they will protect your external aggression watches. With this know-how, Scatola del Tempo has also been at heart to create luxury boxes for exceptional watchmakers. With an elegant design and clean lines, the Scatola del Tempo edges will very quickly become the refuge of all your most valuable watches.

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