ARNOLD & SON – Time PYRAMID ‘Watch of the year 2013’
Arnold & Son is proud to announce the Time Pyramid winner
2nd place of the ‘Watch of the year 2013’
Arnold & Son was among the winners of the competition ‘Watch of the year 2013’ held by the Swiss watch magazine ‘Montres Passion’. The winners were announced in a glittering ceremony on 25th October 2013.
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For twenty consecutive years, the Swiss magazine ‘Montres Passion’ has hosted the ‘Watch of the year’ ceremony in Switzerland. The presentation ceremony was accompanied by a cocktail reception at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. The event was attended by distinguished high profile guests and brand representatives.
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It was with great honor that Philippe Boven of Arnold & Son received for the Time Pyramid the 2nd prize awarded by the jury for the ‘Watch of the year 2013’ © Arnold & Son
Arnold & Son is proud to communicate that its Time Pyramid was awarded 2nd place in the category “Watch of the year 2013”. Deftly demonstrating its British heritage and ingenuity in watchmaking, Arnold & Son’s Time Pyramid unveils a watch movement with unique architecture. Conceived, designed and developed in-house the skeletonised pyramid-shaped movement A&S1615 seemingly floats between two sapphire crystals. The Time Pyramid is a masterful rendition of technical prowess and unparalleled elegance. This superbly engineered wristwatch is part of the brand’s Instrument Collection that combines instrument precision with classical styling.
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Time Pyramid
Exclusive Arnold & Son skeletonised mechanical movement A&S1615, hand-wound, sapphire dial,
18-carat red gold case, diameter 44.6 mm
© Arnold & Son
Exclusive Arnold & Son skeletonised mechanical movement A&S1615, hand-wound, sapphire dial,
18-carat red gold case, diameter 44.6 mm
© Arnold & Son
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Deftly demonstrating its British heritage and ingenuity in watchmaking, Arnold & Son unveils a totally new watch movement with unique architecture: the original Time Pyramid wristwatch. With a skeletonized pyramid-shaped movement seemingly floating between two sapphire crystals, the Time Pyramid is a masterful rendition of technical prowess and unparalleled elegance. This superbly engineered wristwatch is part of the brand's Instrument Collection that combines instrument precision with classical styling.
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Inspired by the regulators created by John and Roger Arnold over two hundred years ago, and by antique British skeleton clocks, the new Arnold & Son exclusive mechanical Calibre A&S1615 was conceived of, designed and developed in-house at the company's La Chaux-de-Fonds workshops, Switzerland.
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To reflect the spirit of the brand's rich history, yet with a vigilant eye to the future, Arnold & Son has created a highly cohesive and seductive blend of watchmaking feats in this timepiece that includes regulator, skeleton, vertical linear movement, pyramid-placement of components and multi-dimensional depth. The Time Pyramid is part of the Instrument Collection, wherein timepieces are easily identified by their sophisticated dial designs, off-centered hours and minutes indication and visual display of complexities.
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The skeletonized caliber A&S1615 is built in a unique format, with balance wheel at twelve o'clock, situated directly beneath the palette and the anchor wheel (which is shaped in typical Arnold & Son's majestic "X" form). At the opposite end of the movement, at six o'clock, lay two mainspring barrels that supply the hand-wound caliber with an amazing 90 hours of power reserve, and provide a more constant force to the wheel train.
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The gear train runs vertically in a linear format connecting the two barrels at six o'clock to the balance wheel at twelve o'clock, and endowing the movement with its pyramid structure. The bridges are designed so that all of the wheels, the two mainspring barrels, the escapement and balance wheel are all magnificently visible from the dial side.
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Additionally, the movement is fitted with two power reserve indicators - one each on either side of the linear gear train - to display the energy level for each barrel separately. The power reserve hands indicate the reserve level via graduated dots (that are printed under the top sapphire crystal) in an arc format, and demonstrate how one barrel transfers energy to the second one when needed. Essentially, as the first barrel winds the second one, the power reserve indicator of the first barrel goes down, while the second one goes up - making for an accurate and intriguing readout.
As if all of this technical ingenuity were not enough, Arnold & Son continued to push the creative envelop in the making of this caliber with its placement of the escapement and seconds indicator at twelve o'clock, and with its three-dimensional construction that replicates the historic Arnold & Son regulators.
As with every esteemed Arnold & Son watch, each component in the Time Pyramid is magnificently hand decorated with manually chamfered brides and high-polished edges, all yielding a striking masterpiece of decorative craftsmanship and brilliant execution.
Each Time Pyramid wristwatch measures 44.6 mm in diameter in its classically elegant 18-carat red gold case. Viewed from the side, the housing is stepped and tapers from top to bottom, the widest section accommodating the extra-large glass with the lower part narrowing to fit snugly on the wrist. Each is finished with an exquisite hand-stitched alligator strap.
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Technical Characteristics
Ref. 1TPAR.S01A.C124A 18-Carat Red Gold Case
Calibre:
A&S1615
Exclusive Arnold & Son skeletonized mechanical movement,
hand-wound, 27 jewels, diameter 37 mm,
thickness 4.40 mm, power reserve over 90 h,
21’600 vibrations/h
Functions:
hours, minutes, seconds, double power reserve indication
Movement decoration:
skeletonised nickel-silver movement, rhodium treated with
Haute Horlogerie finishing: manually chamfered bridges with polished edges,
Côtes de Genève, circular satin-finished wheels, blued screws
Dial:
sapphire, circular satin-finished dial frame with chamfered and polished edge
Case:
18-carat red gold, diameter 44.6 mm,
cambered sapphire with anti-reflective coating on both sides,
case back see-through sapphire,
Strap:
hand-stitched brown or black alligator leather
Water resistance:
30 Meters
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