Rolex
Cosmograph Daytona

The Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona celebrates fifty years of a history in 2013,marked by a passion for speed and racing thanks to its flexibility and presentation. Rolex 1963, this legendary model has won outstanding presence in the automotive circuits thanks to its reliability and attributes. It has reached the icon rank and it is also the most demanded piece around the globe. 

Efficient, precise, easy to read, robust, reliable, hermetic and automatic, it is extremely comfortable and elegant, as well as enormously prestigious.  Product of an incomparable chemistry between formula and function, judging from its success and estatement in the world, currently it represents many aspects of chronograph watches. 

 

 

Audemars Piguet
Royal Oak 1972

A disruptive and downright revolutionary timepiece, the Royal Oak is immediately recognizable thanks to its state-of-the-art engineered strongbox case, octagonal bezel secured by eight hexagonal screws, visible water resistance gaskets, dials adorned with exclusive engine-turned “Grande Tapisserie” motif. 

In 1875 Jules Louis Audemars, decided to join forces with Edward Auguste Piguet, in order to develop and craft watches equipped with complex mechanisms. They shared a passion for watchmaking and a mastery of the art of precision that still characterizes the company today.  Audemars Piguet is still the oldest fine watchmaking manufacturer never to have left the hands of its founding families. This gives the company an independent streak that allows it to go its own way and follow its own unique vision. 

 

 

Cartier Modelo A
Relojes de Misterio, 1914

The principle was based on a brilliant idea: the hands were not directly linked to the movement but were attached to two crystal discs, each fitted into a metal border edged with teeth gears.To complete this illusion, the metal borders of the discs were hidden in the hour circle. When contemplating these clocks, one has the sensation that the hours flew by weightlessly.

These models were created in 1912. When the first mystery clocks were launched, at 13, rue de la Paix, curious sales people wanted to know the secret behind these enigmatic timepieces,which resulted in vain. Many personalities including the Maharaja of Patiala and Queen Mary, wife of King George V of England, quickly succumbed to their charm.

 

 

GP Girard-Perregaux WW.TC
Chronograph Financial

It is the world’s first chronograph simultaneously indicating the hours of different time zones and the opening times of four large stocks: New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The ingenious system rests on two mobile discs around the dial. A ring that represents t24 hours is synchronized with the hand that indicates the hour. A second ring can be adjusted with the crown. It displays the names of twenty-four cities and four periods of stock market activity.

The ring incorporates a contrast of hours day / night for easy reading. It owns a fit proposed sphere in silver or anthracite. The titanium case, with a generous diameter of 43mm has a self-winding mechanical movement of Girard-Perregaux. This sophisticated construction can be admired through sapphire crystal. 

 

 

Ulysse Nardin
Astrolabium

The Trilogy of Time, limited Edition in Platinum: Galileo Galilei, Copernicus, Johannes Kepler. Three brilliant names -among many others- synonymous with the stars in the world of astronomy. When Ulysse Nardin launched the first astrolabe wrist-watch in 1985, this was regarded as a small revolution in the rather closed circle of highly complicated timepieces.

 Conceived by Ludwig Oechslin -who has since regularly signed numerous most useful 

creations – the astrolabium was the first of a Trilogy of Time. However, the three original yellow gold individual timepieces are still part of the regular production program of the firm: Astrolabium Galileo Galilei, Planetarium Copernicus, and Tellurium Johannes Kepler. 

 

 

Patek Philippe
Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002

Of outstanding excellence, the Sky Moon Tourbillon model is the most complicated wristwatch of current production from Patek Philippe. Given its extreme complexity and time required by the numerous and delicate stages of manufacture and assembly, only two copies are made per year.

It is a masterpiece of engineering and precision consisting of 694 pieces, all meticulously hand finished. With its tourbillon mechanism, a kind of mobile “cage”, this watch does not suffer the effect called “position” when placed vertically. To counteract the rotational motion, the center of gravity from Sky moon also runs a rotation about the axis per minute, automatically compensating the negative effect that affects all mechanical watch.

 

 

Blancpain Tourbillon Carrousel

A true technical achievement, the manufacture of Le Brassus presents an exceptional model gifted with a tourbillon (12h00)and a carousel (6h00). For the first time in the history of watchmaking, Blancpain presents a wristwatch that unifies two regulators: the tourbillon and the carrusel have as an objective to reduce the effect produced by the strength of gravity on earth.

The differences and similarities between botch mechanism is conjugated in a beautiful way, elegant and harmonious. Two cages, independent one from the other, are united by a differential which transmits the average of two regulators. An exterior crown allows a uniform and homogenous ensemble.  The crystal sapphire bottom allows us to see the ingenious mechanism. 

 

 

Franck Muller Crazy Hours

Very proud to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Crazy Hours, the birthday of this iconic and emotional complication. In 2003, Franck Muller Manufacture Factory introduced a completely new approach to the notion of time. This unique model shows the numbers in disarray while keeping the correct time. Thanks to a mechanism, the hour hand jumps to a numeral after the other in the correct order, while the minute hand is moved in a conventional manner.

The Crazy Hours alters our perception of time, establishing a new philosophy and proclaims independence of the established order. Crazy Hours 10th anniversary, limited edition, includes 74 pieces in rose gold and white gold. Each of the pieces has the number “10” fully embedded in bright, the other numbers are beautifully polished to give a mirror effect. 

 

 

Breguet Montre à répétition

This pocket watch was produced in 1818 by a special commission for the Duke of Frias (Spain). We are talking about a repetition watch of the halves and fourths of first class: hours, minutes, moon phase and a march reserve in the posterior part, it its fabricated according to aristocratical standards of that era. 

With a diameter of 4,8 centimeters, this piece from Breguet has a gold case with “guillochée” decoration, silver sphere and large window for moon phases to be seen.  It also counts with a ruby scape cylinder. The model was introduced to the public in the exhibition of “Breguet in the Louvre” in the year 2009. 

 

 

Jaeger-LeCoultre Master GrandeTradition Gyrotourbillon 3 Jubilee

Jaeger - LeCoultre , star of watchmaking history since 1833 , celebrates its 180th anniversary with this the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon 3 Jubilee , the tenth opus Hybris Mechanica series reserved for major complications of the Manufacture. This new creation of Jaeger -LeCoultre is a masterpiece of the trilogy Jubilee “ Hommage à Antoine LeCoultre. 

The spherical tourbillon immediately impresses as you discover the dial of the piece. Composed of two cages respectively describing their rotations in a minute and 24 seconds,it not only owes its existence to the ingenuity of the engineers and watchmakers of the manufacture , but also the machinery used , which in fact is at the forefront of modernity , like an automaton of five-axis production .

 

 

Text: Luis Peyrelongue ± Photo: © Peyrelongue Chronos