Thank you very much,
star314, for presenting the CCM "Winston" in such a nearly professional manner. Maybe you will allow the use of this pictures? There are no pics of our shoes in such a high-resolution-quality in CCM's archives. Of course I will pay for it. In CCM-currency, if you please...
The "Winston" and his brother, the "New Theresian" - same last, same cap toe, but as a Derby - laced Shoe - were the first CCMs I designed with helpful support of my old private Shoemeker in Graz, now retired, who ist also a Master of orthopaedic Shoemaking. Therefore he always insists on the "13er" - Heel, his term for the S-shaped heel on
star314's Suede Winstons. "13er" beacuse that was the Number of this heel-construction on his list of heels and soles, espacially for orthopaedic shoes.
"Nutzt er nix, so schad' er nix und schee is er a" he uses to say. ( If I try to translate this Styrian saying into English, it would mean something like : "If there is nothing good in it, there is also nothing bad and nice this heel always looks" )
You're partially right,
Raph l.e. gentleman, if You mention Maftei. It is no secret, that the prototypes of CCM shoes than was made by Maftei, Vienna. Do they make bad shoes? I do not think so, I have even changed from Materna to Maftei for the making of the bespoke shoes for my own terrible feet.
This so after a decades-lomg connection to the men of our family in terms of bespoke shoes with Georg Materna and previously with its predecessor and mentor, the great Bela Nagy.
In the last two years our range of mto-shoes has grown, but most of the prototypes are still made by Maftei, some by a small workshop in Hungary, some by a very good shoemaker, regularely working for a well known austro-romanian manufacturer. They also help in with their skilled hands, making complete shoes according to our specifications in busy times, when CCM's own craftsmen cannot produce our entirely handmade shoes to the customers just in time, f.e. when there are too many incoming orders after one of my presentations. The upcoming newly designed model "Camlot's Signature" is in development at the small workshop of an imho young rising star on Vienna's shoemakers sky. I do not want to mention his name before I will have seen the first results of his work for the new design. The making-of this new CCM-model will be shown on
http://www.camlots.blogspot.com .
BTW - especially for
l.e. gentleman - wine red is a colour very often used for bags, labels and so on. Ours are mostly beige, with our wine-red label with gold-embroidered Camlots Scripture on them, as you can see. And if you know Maftei's shoes, then you know how their soles are made. Different.
