Luxury Gifts

Georg Jensen Watch Koppel 41 mm dual time, champagne dial

The Koppel Dual Time is a horological gem for the modern cosmopolitan. The ultra-precise, Swiss Made quartz movement inside the elegant round case of the 41-millimetre new Koppel Dual Time offers a secondary time zone via a fourth separately adjusted central hand. This gives the wearer the opportunity to see the time at the end destination and adjust the fourth hand to your home time – or vice versa.

The Koppel Dual Time with champagne colour dial is fitted with a sapphire crystal and brown calfskin strap with a luxurious steel folding buckle for ultimate wearing comfort.

Strap size large is mounted on the watch. Other straps available for additional purchase: Black calf, brown alligator, black alligator, grey canvas, blue canvas.

Movement: Ronda 515.24H
Launch year: 2011
Materials: Stainless steel, sapphire crystal, bluish SuperLuminova (glow-in-the-dark) pigments on hands and dots, brown calfskin strap.
Measurements: 41 mm
Thickness: 10.00 mm
Design: Henning Koppel 

1918-1981

Henning Koppel is responsible for what we have come to think of as “Danish design".

Koppel was an earlier pioneer of functionalism in design: his mission was to make everyday life products beautiful as well as practical. He was trained as a sculptor and began collaborating with Georg Jensen in 1946.

Henning Koppel is born to a wealthy Jewish family and showed an early talent for art, leading him to train in both drawing and aquarelle early on. He continued studies in sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy and later in Paris. His superb drafting skills, developed as a child, helped him in to produce outstanding product renderings of his designs. Even on their own, they form an exceptional body of work.

Like many Danish Jews, Koppel fled to Sweden during the Second World War. At 27, he returned and began working at Georg Jensen, which marked his start in jewellery, hollowware and flatware design. His first works – a series of necklaces and linked bracelets resembling whale vertebrae and microscopic organisms - were small masterpieces in imaginative modelling. Henning Koppel was in every way groundbreaking and his jewellery was unlike anything ever created at the silver smithy in its first 40 years.

When Henning Koppel died in 1981, aged 63, he had created an astonishing range of work: from stainless steel cutlery such as “New York” which found its way into the homes of millions, to magnificent one-off signature pieces such as the silver and crystal chandelier he designed to celebrate the 75-year anniversary of Georg Jensen in 1979.

During his life, he won many awards including the Milan Triennial, the International Design Award and the Lunning Prize. Accolades are important, but what means even more to us is that people still choose to wear a watch by Henning Koppel or to serve coffee from one of his pots. The integrity and appeal of his designs remain vital and undiminished.