Monday, February 29, 2016

Struthers London – KELSO White Gold
















Struthers London Watches KELSO White Gold NEW

THE KELSO
BY STRUTHERS LONDON

In a petite 20mm wide octagonal case, the Struthers Kelso is available in 18ct white, yellow or rose gold.


Each watch is hand-crafted to order and can have personalised touches added throughout. The winding crown of the watch can be in solid gold or set with sapphire, ruby or diamond as a standard request, however requests can be accommodated should you have another preference.
The watch is built around a vintage mechanical movement from the 1960s, which has been refined and refinished in-house. Every movement is hand engraved, and the balance can be seen ticking away beneath a magnified window in the case back.

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The dial, crafted from sterling silver as standard but available on request in gold; has been decorated using the centuries old technique of engine turning using a traditional rose engine to create a sunburst finish.
While black lizard is standard, additional leathers are available on application. Please contact us with any special requests you may have.

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Personalised engraving is an optional extra and can either be incorporated on the case back, or concealed within the watch and known only to the client and watchmaker. Every watch by Struthers London comes with a certificate of authenticity and its own unique build book, photographically documenting the watch throughout its creation.

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The build time for this watch is between three and four months, and commissioners are notified throughout the creation of their watch with progress updates and photographs from the bench. Clients to the Struthers are welcome to visit their studio and workshops, meet the watchmaker and see their watch being made.

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Model: KELSO White Gold

Movement: Manual winding
Case: Material 18ct White Gold
Dial: White sterling silver
Strap: Black lizard

Prices start at £16,500 (inc. VAT)
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Rebecca Struthers
Managing Director, Struthers London
Watchmaker & Theory-led Ph.D Candidate, Antiquarian Horology
Birmingham Institute of Art & Design (BIAD)
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Saturday, February 27, 2016

ZANNETTI – Regent Jewellery Owl Limited Edition















ZANNETTI Regent Jewellery Owl Limited Edition NEW

THE JEWELLERY WATCH

THE JEWELLER IS AN EXPERT IN THE ART OF MOUNTINGPRECIOUS STONES IN GOLD, SILVER AND, LATER, PLATINUMSO AS TO REVEAL THE IR FULL SPARKLE AND BEAUTY


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IT TOOK SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS, until the eighteenthcentury in fact, for the profession of jeweller to reach its defi-nitive form in Europe. Parisian goldsmiths, who made objectsfor everyday use, were given their first statutes in 768 and, inthe early 13th century, formed a guild. Lapidaries, stonecuttersand engravers worked with all manner of precious, fine and natural stones. New regulations governing their profession wereadopted in 1584. Throughout the second half of the seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth century, decreeswere passed stipulating that precious stones were to be cut bylapidaries and sold by goldsmiths. The guild now included jewellers (joailliers), bijoutiers (distinct from jewellers as they didnot work with precious stones), stone-setters (metteurs en oeuvre), and gold and silver merchants. In 1781 they were joinedby lapidaries and goldbeaters. Evidence of this rich past can beseen today in the multiple forms of expression that still enterinto the jeweller’s art in the widest sense, from precious stonesand gemstones to enamelwork, engraving and chasing. It is byno means unusual for a world-class jeweller today to also crea-te bijoux and precious tableware.

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Until the early twentieth century precious stones were, withfew exceptions, just one of the techniques implemented whendecorating a watch, which also called on the very differentskills of the lapidary, engraver and enameller. The interplayof light and colour from the mat, brilliant and translucent enamels complemented and sometimes even surpassed thoseof precious and hard stones. Chased and engraved metal highlighted contours and motifs. As a functional but also decorative piece, some watches resembled figurative or geometricpaintings while others showed a sculptural quality.

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REGENT JEWELLERY-OWL COLLECTION - LIMITED EDITION

Are many, infinite, the ways that lead to the realization of a clock. Some people use real believers industries ative, who gets help from suppliers so far as to make need to step over an ocean, those who simply print your name on the work of a stranger. Zannetti chose a completely different way. 

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Italian luxury watch brand Zannetti presents the limited edition Regent Jewellery Owl timepiece, a high jewellery masterpiece crafted in white gold and adorned with precious stones. Bezel of this watch is entirely hand-set with sapphires fading from dark to light blue and decorated with hand-made stars in 18kt gold and diamonds.

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The hand-engraved and enameled mother of pearl dial portrays a hand-made three-dimensional 18kt rose gold owl with diamonds and eyes in mother of pearl with cabochon of rubies. Inside this timepiece beats a personalised automatic movement manufactured in Switzerland. The watch completes with a hand-sewed Alligator blue strap with personalised 18kt gold butterfly buckle with diamonds.

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The Zannetti Regent Jewellery Owl is a timepiece that combines perfection of the Swiss Movements with the highest level of craftsmanship. Only the best artists in the watchmaking  and  jewellery world could have been able to produce this watch: engravers, mounters, painters,  gemmologists,  drawers and, watchmakers. All these people together, working in a team, were able to give birth to such an extraordinary, fascinating and precious (in raw materials and working techniques) timepiece.

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Zannetti has inherited an important commitment,which is based on a constructive, conceptual anduncompromising philosophy.

The technological excellence of its timepieces,along with the art expressed by Zannetti’s skillfulwatchmakers and craftsmen, contributes in creatingunique and highly distinguishing watches that areworldwide appreciated.

Each watch created by Zannetti has its own soul, hi-story and personality, proudly unique in its gender.Zannetti si dedica con passione ad una filosofiacostruttiva e senza compromessi. L’eccellenza tec-nologica dei suoi orologi, unita alla precisione del-la mano dell’abile maestro orologiaio e dell’artista,fanno di ogni singolo segnatempo un pezzo asso-lutamente unico ed irripetibile. Indossarlo al polsoregala, quindi, una sensazione di originalità e indi-pendenza ormai, dai più, ritenuta irrimediabilmenteperduta. Ogni orologio Zannetti può vantare un’ ani-ma, storia e personalità unica nel suo genere.

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Technical details

Model: ZANNETTI Regent Jewellery Owl Limited Edition

Ref. R5G.A1R-B1.Y.A

Case
Entirely hand-engraved, chiselled and finished white 18kt case.
Bezel entirely hand-set with sapphires fading from dark to light blue, decorated with hand-made stars in 18kt gold and diamonds.
Sapphire glass anti-reflex with engraved hidden signature
Hand-engraved bottom fixed by 8 screws with exposed movement
White gold crown with sapphire’s cabochon
Functions
Hours, minutes and seconds
Dial
Hand-engraved and enameled mother of pearl dial
Hand-finished and gilded hands and indexes
The dial portrays a hand-made three-dimensional 18kt rose gold owl with diamonds and eyes in mother of pearl with cabochon of rubies.
Movement

Made-in-Swiss mechanical automatic movement personalised by Zannetti
Strap
Hand-sewed Alligator blue strap with personalised 18kt gold butterfly buckle with diamonds
Edition
Limited and numbered edition

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Friday, February 26, 2016

MONTBLANC – 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter Blue Limited Edition
















MONTBLANC 1858 Collection Chronograph Tachymeter Blue Limited Edition NEW

A Timepiece Pays Homage 
To The Prestigious Minerva Heritage

Paying tribute to the heritage of its manufacture in Villeret, founded under the name Minerva and acquired in 2007 by Montblanc, the Maison presents a timepiece inspired by Villeret’s legendary Minerva chronographs. The prestigious Minerva manufacture was the reference in the field of chronographs and stopwatches during the 1920s and ‘30s.

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These legendary timekeepers were able to measure fractions of a second with the utmost precision — a feat of horological manufacturing for the time. Calibres such as the reference 13.20, launched in the 1920s, were among the very first to be conceived specifically for wristwatches, while the Calibre 19.14, unveiled in 1936, could measure the hundredth of a second. Montblanc’s split-second stopwatches also gained international recognition when they were used for timing the 1936 Winter Olympics, which reinforced the Maison’s reputation.

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Most watchmakers outsourced their watch components throughout those two decades, whereas Minerva mastered the majority of its fabrication in-house, including its balance wheels and springs…and the same remains true today. This year, Montblanc continues this passion for fine watchmaking by honoring Minerva’s emblematic chronographs of yesteryear with a new manufacture 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter Blue Limited Edition 100.

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Inspired by a monopusher chronograph from the 1930s, this new limited edition of 100 pieces captures the innovative spirit of the decade by uniting a number of the original design features with one of Villeret’s most elegant manufacture, hand-wound chronographs— the Calibre MB M16.29 — featuring a column wheel and a horizontal disc clutch.


A vintage inspiration

On the historical side, a fluted crown with a coaxial push-piece is reminiscent of the early crowns that were designed for easy grasp, while the elegant dial, with its large white luminescent Arabic numerals and a railway track, is also typical of the period. The small seconds at nine o’clock, the chronograph 30-minutes counter at three o’clock, the retro Montblanc logo, used from the beginning of the 21st century, and the large “cathedral” hands, with their cloisonne design filled with white Super-LumiNova®, all stay faithful to the original design.

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Montblanc’s 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter Blue Limited Edition 100 celebrates both traditional Swiss artisanal watchmaking and the rich heritage of Montblanc’s Villeret Manufacture, but offers a contemporary twist to the past with a large 44 mm stainless steel case with slightly enlarged lugs, to keep the proportions of the case the same. The addition of a deep blue dial with a tachymetric scale for measuring speeds over distance, along with a matching blue alligator strap, also contribute to reinforcing the vintage look of this historical timepiece.

Movement inspirations

Under the dial, Montblanc has equipped the 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter Blue Limited Edition 100 with its monopusher chronograph with column wheel and horizontal disc clutch that fills the whole 44 mm case. This movement shares the same architecture as its predecessor — the Minerva pocket watch Calibre 17.29 from 1929 — although it has been re-designed extensively with hand-finishings, including Cotes de Geneve motifs, extensive bevelling, angling and snailing, all respecting the finest codes of Haute Horlogerie. Looking through the caseback, it is possible to see the iconic engraved “V” chronograph bridge, which has been a feature of Minerva chronographs since 1912, as well as the Minerva arrow-shaped chronograph hammer that can be found in almost all the modern Montblanc/Minerva movements. Other features include a large screw-regulated balance wheel and a swan-neck regulator. The calibre is comprised of 252 components and beats at a frequency of 2.5 Hertz with a power reserve of 50 hours.

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Uniting the reference in chronographs with the innovations of the present, the Montblanc 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter Blue Limited Edition 100 is the perfect example of how Montblanc pays homage to the prestigious Minerva calibres. From 1858, Minerva was committed to producing precision timepieces with high-quality calibres, and Montblanc continues this tradition and heritage today.

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About Montblanc

For over 100 years, Montblanc has embraced the traditions of lasting value and exquisite craftsmanship. The Maison’s uncompromising principles of design, style, quality and workmanship have allowed it to create heirloom collections that are passed from generation to generation. The iconic Montblanc Emblem is a symbol of excellence — the pinnacle of luxury writing instruments, timepieces, leather accessories, fragrances and sunglasses — and the Maison has made an enduring commitment to encourage excellence through cultural advancement. Montblanc has its roots in writing culture and therefore sees a particular obligation to its own cultural commitment. Through various international activities, the Maison makes a creative contribution to modern cultural life: Montblanc itself writes a small piece of cultural history.

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MONTBLANC1858 Chronograph Tachymeter Limited Edition 100

Ident. 114086

Movement: 
Montblanc Manufacture Calibre MB M16.29
Type of movement: Manually wound monopusher chronograph with tachymeter scale
Chronograph: Monopusher with column-wheel and horizontal coupling
Dimensions: Diameter = 38.4 mm; height = 6.3 mm
Number of components: 252
Number of jewels: 22
Power reserve: Approx. 50 hours
Balance wheel: Screw balance, diameter = 14.5 mm; moment of inertia = 59 mg.cm2
Frequency: 18,000 vibrations/hour (2.5 Hz)
Balance spring: With Phillips terminal curve
Plate: Rhodium-plated German silver with circular graining on both sides
Bridges: Rhodium-plated German silver with “Côtes de Genève
Going-train: Gold-plated, faceted arms, diamond-polished surfaces

Displays:
Central hours and minutes
Small seconds at 9 o’clock
Chronograph’s elapsed-seconds hand in the centre of the dial’s
Counter for 30 elapsed minutes at 3 o’clock
Tachymeter scale
Exterior
Case: Stainless steel
Crystal: Scratch-resistant and antireflective domed sapphire crystal
Back: Screwed stainless steel back with inset pane of sapphire crystal
Dimensions: Diameter = 44 mm; height = 13.15 mm
Water-resistance: 3 bar
Crown: Stainless steel with Montblanc emblem in raised relief
Push-piece: Chronograph monopusher integrated into the crown
Dial: 
Blue dial with Super-LumiNova®-coated* Arabic numerals,
Gold-plated luminescent hour-hand and minute-hand,
historical Montblanc emblem at 12 o’clock, tachymeter scale around the dial circumference
Strap: 
Blue alligator-skin strap with stainless steel pin buckle

Limited Edition: 100

(*Super-LumiNova® is not a trademark registered by Montblanc)

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Thursday, February 25, 2016

REBELLION – MAGNUM 540 Grand Tourbillon SAPPHIRE Edition


REBELLIONMAGNUM 540 Grand Tourbillon SAPPHIRE Limited Edition NEW

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World premiere ! 
The new 540 Magnum Tourbillon features a sapphire crystal case that pushes the art to extreme limits.

It took 47,600 minutes of diamond grinding, that is 99 business days, to extract the eight elements that make up the case of the 540 Magnum Tourbillon from specially cut sapphire blocks. It was a mad idea that took the magic of transparence to new heights.

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The 540 Magnum Tourbillon features a sapphire crystal case that pushes the art to extreme limits

Rebellion Timepieces exhibits its collection until Thursday 21 January 2016 at Espace Barton in Geneva, join us !

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Sometimes, the value of the container competes with the value of the gem it contains. The independent Swiss watch brand, REBELLION TIMEPIECES has given the queen of all watch complications, the tourbillon caliber REB T-14, the most incredible rectangular watch case ever made.

Exhibited in Geneva, January 18-21, 2016, at the Espace Fert Barton

It all began with a mad challenge uttered in a defiant and passionate tone of voice. Some master watchmakers are plainly and simply masochistic. When taking up the insurmountable challenge announced by REBELLION TIMEPIECES, David Candaux had no idea what to expect. The task facing him was to make a case of sapphire crystal imagined by the designer Eric Giroud, which would already be complex enough as it is when made of steel, gold, titanium, or carbon. Armed with all the confidence of a true pioneer, somewhere between unawareness of danger and the wish not to disappoint anyone, he produced something that qualifies as a world premiere.

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The 47,600 minutes that were required to machine and polish the extraordinary case do not include the hours and hours devoted to conceiving and verifying whether it would be feasible at all, one step after the other. It was a titanic job made possible by simulation using a computer and an advanced 3D software especially reprogrammed for the task at hand. Take the moorings that usually disappear into the mass of steel, gold or titanium: Here, they suddenly reveal themselves as very esthetic beauty marks.

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Because the sapphire crystal allows us to see everything.

Superlative mind and tools

It involved reinventing, reshaping everything, from the tip of the smallest screw, to the most inaccessible panel reachable by human tools, right down to the gasket that maintains water-resistance, which had to be made of transparent silicon. “We had to put a lot of thought into finding each and every way to avoid changing the esthetics of the watch while managing to assemble all the elements and making sure all the connecting elements were invisible,” says David Candaux on completing the job.

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As for the tools, they needed to be designed and made, or, in the best case scenario, just adapted. Sapphire is transparent, but it is also very hard and brittle. Not many materials are so hard to work on. In this project, the lifespan of a burr with a diamond tip, the only material able to get the better of sapphire and grind it down, was somewhere between four and thirty minutes.

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On the other hand, since breakage is inevitable in watchmaking, in order to actually have the timepiece presented at the Espace Vert in Geneva during the watch week in January 2016, three cases ended up being sacrificed on the altar of perfection.

Grand Tourbillon, house caliber

Because of the “world premiere” character of the actual encasement, a sapphire box of unparalleled complexity, onje could almost forget the actual content. Well, inside this virile timepiece in XXL size is an extreme mechanism also developed by David Candaux, a recognized maker of movements. REBELLION TIMEPIECES, the only Swiss watch brand boasting its own race car stable, the Rebellion Racing team, has no qualms inviting inspiration from values extant in the world of automobiles: sportive, high-performance, precision and endurance, no compromises allowed....

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The rectangular architecture of the REB T-14, with a double spring barrel, immediately catches the eye due to the large size of the tourbillon cage. Here, the mechanism devised by the brilliant watchmaker and physicist Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) has been interpreted in a most original manner, with finishing and subtleties that testify to an extreme mastery of horological complications.

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With its 540 tenths of a millimeter circumference and a diameter of 17.2 millimeters – hence the name of the collection, 540 Magnum – the tourbillon pervades the entire dial from its magnesium cage, like a kinetic crater topping an active volcano.

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Another thing to note is the world's smallest chain, to give legroom to the regulating ten-day power reserve indicator with conical gears. It’s a little reminder of the world of mechanical sports.

Shadow and light, finishing in between

In order to optimize the visual impact of this piece, which is destined to be visually undressed, the mainplate was made of carbon fiber. The high-tech materials used, like the special aluminum alloy, provide the mechanism with the necessary rigidity and lightness. They also offer some dark and racy views composed of subtle interplay of shadows and light. Synergies that are now exposed to the fullest extent, in mysterious watch style thanks to the total transparency of the sapphire crystal.

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REBELLION GRABS THE SPOTLIGHT WITH SHIMMERING SAPPHIRE
At the Espace Fert-Barton, a sapphire case and ... a spirit of competition

The independent Swiss watch brand REBELLION invited its fans, special friends, customers and the media to a venue full of surprises just off Lake Geneva, and right opposite the city's hallmark water spout, the Jet d'Eau. The Espace Barton is spacious and convivial. It was the ideal place for the media reception of a world première, the MAGNUM 540 Tourbillon, a watch that displays the true magic of some phenomenal transparency. Its rectangular case was already known for being a very complex piece that expressed deeply-rooted REBELLION values: endurance and automotive prowess. Now the brand produced a modular design in eight parts carved entirely out of sapphire.

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This most insane sapphire timepiece ever was born following a period of labor that included 47,600 minutes of diamond-tip machining, with no compromises allowed and many a tool sacrificed on the altar of perfection. This superlative timepiece was comfortably settled at the heart of the event, a veritable show-stopper, and fascinated connoisseurs as well as those with a deep sense of esthetics. This technical challenge had been met by David Candaux, who was present and harvested a storm of hyperbolic praise.

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The leadership team, headed by Calim Bouhada and Philippe Dubois, CEO of REBELLION Timepieces, was present as well and used the occasion and the congenial atmosphere generated by a shared passion to unveil the mainstays of the brand's other collections. They also underscored the highlights of the 2016 program, which will be reinforcing REBELLION's connection to the world of motor sports. REBELLION, after all, is the only Swiss watch brand to actually have its own automotive stable, REBELLION Racing.

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And now the brand announced a partnership with IMG Motorsport, a London-based company that has chosen REBELLION as the official timing partner for the FIA World Rallycross Championship. This will give the brand great visibility and will be an opportunity to offer its partners and the victorious drivers a limited edition RX RALLYCROSS watch.



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January, 18-21 2016, REBELLION TIMEPIECES moves to Geneva:
Espace Fert Barton,7, rue Barton Geneva (Pâquis Area)
Contact: Joëlle Pucci and Philippe Dubois, CEO. info@rebellion-timepieces.com

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The REBELLION 540 Magnum Tourbillon SAPPHIRE is a limited edition with sapphire crystal case.

Features and functions
Openwork dial showcasing movement
14-day power reserve, conical gearing
White Super-LumiNova tipped central hours and minutes
  • White Super-LumiNova tipped skeletonized retrograde seconds hand at 6 o’clock
  • Chain-driven, arrowhead power reserve indicator at 9 o’clock
  • Roller-borne precision power reserve indicator at 7 o’clock
  • 17.2mm 60-second tourbillon escapement at 4 o’clock, crenelated
  • Two relief-engraved mainspring barrels in series at 9 o’clock and 12 o’clock
Dial and hands
Open-work dial showcasing movement
Central skeletonized hour and minute hands
Double-braced ARCAP hour markers
  • Skeletonized retrograde seconds hand at 6 o’clock
  • Chain-driven, arrowhead power reserve indicator at 9 o’clock
  • Roller-borne precision power reserve indicator at 7 o’clock
Double braced titanium bridges

Movement: REB T-14
Proprietary movement developed for REBELLION Timepieces by David Candaux/Du Val Des Bois
Movement dimensions: 36.7mm x 36.7mm x 9mm
490 components
Materials include: aluminum, ceramicized magnesium, titanium and carbon fiber
Tourbillon cage in ceramicized magnesium'-REB-T14' engraved on tourbillon cage
Tourbillon diameter: 17.2mm
Mainplate in aluminum
¾ back plate in carbon fiber
Two relief engraved mainspring barrels in series
Each barrel engraved with inspirational words
  • Barrel 1: “Passion” “Speed” “Rebel”
  • Barrel 2: “Extreme” “Victory” “Glory”
14-day power reserve
Power reserve mechanism features high-efficiency conical gearing
Power reserve chain visible through case band window
Double-braced titanium bridges
Movement back engraved with REBELLION 540 Magnum;
38 Jewels”; “REB T14”; “D Candaux”; “Swiss
Case and strap
Modular construction     
Case material: SAPPHIRE crystal case
Sapphire crystals: Compound curves, beveled edges, anti-reflection treatment on both faces; case
band window; display back    
Dimensions: 46mm x 56.7mm x 19.6mm    
Water resistance: 30m
Transparent rubber strap

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ARMIN STROM – COGNAC Limited Edition
















ARMIN STROMCOGNAC Limited Edition NEW


A Spirited Design: Armin Strom's Cognac Watch Contains
Drops of Prized
1762 Cognac


Celebrates Announcement of Wealth Solutions as New Polish Partner

Private ownership allows Swiss watch manufacturer Armin Strom the freedom to explore novel concepts and unusual projects.

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To commemorate its new partnership with Wealth Solutions in Poland, Armin Strom created a highly unusual wristwatch. The movement of the mechanical timepiece features a small capsule containing a 1762 Gautier Cognac, which was owned by Wealth Solutions.

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Armin Strom chief horologist Claude Greisler devised a concept that protects the movement while incorporating the rare spirit. A sealed sapphire crystal disc positioned at 5 o'clock captures the rare Cognac. Manual wind with a five-day power reserve, the watch will be produced in stainless steel, 18k rose gold and titanium cases. On the backside, a hand- engraved design of a bunch of grapes decorates the base plate.

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Founded in 2007, Wealth Solutions curates and sells exceptional products, such as art, fine wine and spirits, and watches, to Polish collectors and other clients. In April 2014 Wealth Solutions purchased the oldest authenticated bottle of Cognac - a 1762 Gaultier Cognac bottled in 1840 — ever sold at a public auction.

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In a ceremony on November 4, 2015, announcing Wealth Solutions as the new Armin Strom distributor in Poland, the rare bottle was opened, decanted and sealed in flacons.

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The manual-wind Cognac Watch, with the capsule at 5 o'clock and the hand engraving on the base plate, exemplifies Armin Strom's philosophy of innovation while maintaining the traditions of Swiss watchmaking.
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Ref. ST15-MW.05  MANUAL COGNAC
 
Movement
ARMIN STROM Manufacture calibre
AMW11
Manual winding, 5-days power reserve, small seconds, off-centre time indications
Distinctions: sealed sapphire crystal disk captures 1762 cognac, 

Hand-engraved bunch of grapes on base plate
Frequency: 18,000 A/h
Jewels: 20
Number of components: 117
Impulse:   Single going barrel
Plates and bridges:  Hand-engraved bunch of grapes on base plate
Escapement:
Escape wheel and pallets made of solid gold with hardened functional areas
Regulating system:  Screwed balance with Breguet overcoil
Diameter:  36.60mm
Height:  6.00mm 

Functions: Hour, minute, small second.
Power reserve: 5 days 

Case

Stainless steel
Sapphire crystal and case back with anti-reflective treatment
Diameter: 43.40mm
Height: 13.00mm
Water-resistance: 50m 
Distinctions: 
Fully skeletonised, main plate with dark brown PVD coating  
Dial ring:  White with founded appliqués  
Hands: Mirror polished
Straps
Delivered with a genuine dark blue alligator horn-back strap and stainless steel ardillon buckle as well as an additional dark blue rubber strap
A double-fold clasp in stainless steel is available on option

Limited to 40 pieces


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