Tuesday, January 15, 2019

GIRARD-PERREGAUX – BRIDGES COSMOS Tourbillon

GIRARD-PERREGAUXBRIDGES COSMOS Tourbillon “Earth to Sky” Titanium 48mm


This is the Haute Horlogerie masterpiece presented by Girard-Perregaux in 2019.
A new dialogue between earth and sky, between matter and space,
between the visible and the invisible.
Two complete globes – celestial and terrestrial –
serve to mirror a fusional moment that we experience the Cosmos.

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Revealing an unknown world, in turn, the signs of the zodiac pass through this miniature
firmament, as the earth rotates daily. Like the sky, the watch has two faces: day and night.
Loyal to the refinement characterising the aesthete of the invisible,
Cosmos reveals finishes of a previously unknown beauty.
Inside, setting Cosmos into orbit, beats brand-new Manufacture Calibre
GP09320-1098. In the absence of a crown, the time and various indications are manually
adjusted on the back of this stellar creation.

Within the galaxy of new Girard-Perregaux launches, Cosmos vibrates on a separate wavelength. Stemming from the Bridges collection, the piece highlighted by the brand in 2019 is anything but nebulous.

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It reveals the hidden portions of the night sky and glows with a black light. The centrepiece of the "Earth to Sky" theme, this watch with tourbillon, sky chart and world time complications is composed of mechanical particles and poetic paradoxes.

Order and beauty

The ancient Greeks believed that aesthetic rules governed the universe which they avidly observed. The symmetrical arrangement of the Cosmos double globe is an emanation of this quest for order and beauty. Along its horizontal and vertical axes, its complications are reflected in an arrangement set at all four cardinal points.

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 Offset hours and minutes appear at 12 o’clock, while a tourbillon spins beneath a large black titanium bridge at 6 o’clock. At 3 o’clock, a terrestrial globe serves as a day/night indicator, while a sky chart takes its place at 9 o’clock. The entire scene is staged against a tinted sapphire crystal glass. Invisible in broad daylight, and dotted with luminescent hydroceramic particles, it offers a time-lapse view of the sky by night.

Earth To Sky

13.8 billion years after the expansion of the universe, Girard-Perregaux raises its eyes towards infinity: its light, its shadow and its mysteries. In a new approach, the brand begins a dialogue between earth and sky, between matter and space. It explores the boundaries of its expertise, unveils the invisible and reveals what was hidden. Its science of watch finishing and materials is exposed in a new light. It draws on the light of blackness. Science and art, photons and matter, Girard-Perregaux's search for beauty is entering an astrophysical and metaphorical dimension.

 A celestial map customizable according to the owner's wishes

At 9 o’clock, the sky chart endows Cosmos with its sidereal dimension. Laser-engraved on a blue-tinted titanium globe, it rotates every 23 hours, 58 minutes and 4 seconds, the exact duration of a sidereal day. This sphere focuses on the best-known, most visible stellar formations, those of the zodiac.

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Dozens of stars are connected to it, thus tracing the twelve constellations known for more than 2,500 years. They are enhanced with luminescent hydroceramic, thus enabling the Cosmos to fulfil its astronomical vocation even on the darkest nights. Their depiction is one of the paradoxes of astronomy, and of the Cosmos watch, since the constellation to which the Earth belongs is the only one that is not visible, because it is hidden by the blinding sun. Finally, the celestial globe displays the constellation of the zodiac that is invisible at noon on the dial side and the one that is visible at midnight on the caseback side.

A scale model of the Earth

At 3 o'clock, a complete globe gives two indications. It allows you to know if the local time zone is in daylight or plunged in darkness. And a 24-hour scale near its equator provides a GMT reading.

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This second time-zone reading time zone is done via the most sophisticated hand imaginable: a scale model of the earth. Also made of titanium and laser-engraved, this world map features hollow oceans and raised continents. Although it is a viewed from the sky, they represent the earthly dimension of Cosmos.

Telluric physics

The Cosmos case with its 48 mm diameter is a world in itself. Carved from beadblasted titanium, it delimits its universe. Its sapphire crystal is a glassbox, a curved chimney-type glass acting like an astronomical telescope. Beneath this non-deforming lens beats a brand-new movement that has emerged from the interstellar void to put Cosmos into orbit: manual-winding Calibre GP09320.

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Its rate is regulated by a tourbillon similar to that of the Néo family. The tourbillon bridge is made of black PVD-treated titanium, arched over the void. Its sandblasted surface highlights the aesthetic work done on the carriage, a true revelation of unknown beauties that accentuate the Maison’s tradition of refinement.

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The Cosmos case-middle is smooth and crown-free. In its place are four tiny adjustment keys, all located on the back of the case, and which sit flat on the wrist without any unpleasant protuberance. The sapphire crystal and titanium caseback is pierced with four rods respectively dedicated to winding, time-setting, adjustment of the heavenly globe and that of the terrestrial globe.

A nocturnal light show

The cosmos is the universe as observed from the earth. Cosmos offers a double viewpoint: that of the sky visible from the surface of the globe and that of the globe visible from the surface of its atmosphere. This duality is reflected in the luminous personality of Cosmos. Its nocturnal face differs from its diurnal appearance. Brimming with both meaning and stars, this night-time view shines in the dark, making it hard to imagine the cosmic mechanics underlying this nocturnal scene.

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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Model: COSMOS

Reference : 99292-21-651-BA6F

Case
Material: beadblasted titanium
Diameter: 48 mm
Height: 12.15 mm
Glass: glareproofed ‘glassbox’ type sapphire crystal
Water resistance: 30 metres (3 ATM)
Dial
Metallized sapphire, engraved and enhanced with luminescent hydroceramic
Hands: ‘Dauphine’ type, with Super-LumiNova TM
Movement
Calibre Reference: GP09320-1098
Winding: manual
Power reserve: 60 hours
Number of components: 362 including 52 jewels
Frequency: 21,600 vph (3 Hz)
Diameter: 37.85 mm (16 ¾ lignes)
Thickness: 9.10 mm (13.10 mm with domes) 
Functions:
Tourbillon, hours, minutes,
second time zone with day/night indicator, constellations indicator
Strap
Material: hand-sewn blue alligator leather
Buckle: titanium triple folding clasp


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International PR Manager

Ivanne Perrinjaquet
iperrinjaquet@girard-perregaux.ch
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H. MOSER & CIE. – Swiss Alp Watch Concept Black Tourbillon Platinum






















H. MOSER & CIE.Swiss ALP WATCH Concept Black Tourbillon Minute Repeater Platinum Special Edition - Unique piece


AN EAR FOR THE PASSAGE OF TIME

H. Moser & Cie. has made elegance its watchword and minimalism its signature. And, with the Swiss Alp Watch Concept Black, it is going even further. After removing both logo and indices from the dial of its Concept models, it now presents a watch with no hands which gives the time without displaying it. The glossy black dial features a one-minute flying tourbillon at 6 o'clock. And nothing else. To find out the time, you need to use your ears. As it was in the time before the use of electricity became widespread: people had to use minute repeaters to discover the time when it was too dark to see. H. Moser & Cie. is using this delightful nod to a highly prestigious watchmaking tradition to play with contrasts: this most minimalist of creations integrates a minute repeater and a tourbillon in a rectangular case that looks like a smart watch.

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Inside the case, with its modern rectangular design with rounded corners, H. Moser & Cie. has placed a form movement equipped with a flying tourbillon and one of the most difficult complications a manufacture can produce: the minute repeater with shaped chimes. The Swiss Alp Watch Concept Black marks a return by the Schaffhausen-based Manufacture to the fundamentals of traditional watchmaking, restoring the watch to its rightful place as an instrument for measuring time which sounds the hours, and not a time-wasting "smart" device displaying notifications. Like a manifesto for the art of mechanical watchmaking, imbued with all the elegance inherent to H. Moser & Cie. Even the time setting system is discreet with adjustments made via the crown. A marking engraved on the crown allows the time to be corrected using a graduation, which only appears when the crown is pulled out, with twelve indices each representing five minutes. A subtle system that respects the minimalist spirit of the model.

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The Swiss Alp Watch Concept Black is driven by the hand-wound HMC 901 calibre. For the design of its thirteenth manufacture movement since 2005, H. Moser & Cie. called upon the expertise of MHC Manufactures Hautes Complications SA, the experts in minute repeaters. Together, they have performed a remarkable feat, managing to combine perfect harmony with a strong sound. The HMC 901 is a true jewel of a movement, combining a minute repeater and a tourbillon — itself a rare feat in watchmaking — inside a shaped calibre. Housed within the rectangular case of the Swiss Alp Watch Concept Glossy Black, it is equipped with two rectangular shaped gongs, which are particularly difficult to tune.

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To amplify the sound of the hours, quarter-hours and minutes produced by the two angled gongs, the case had to be significantly reworked, with the middle completely hollowed out to create sufficient space for a resonance chamber. With perfect mastery, H. Moser & Cie. has managed to achieve a beautiful sound that combines amplitude, a certain length and a pure note.

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The one-minute flying tourbillon at 6 o'clock is certainly eye-catching. Visible behind a skeletonised bridge, it is fitted to a ball bearing to improve the precision and chronometry. Resolutely contemporary and in line with modern times, the tourbillon appears to float weightlessly on the completely naked dial, looking like a smart watch on standby, in the kind of clever nod that H. Moser & Cie. delights in.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Model: Swiss ALP WATCH Concept Black Tourbillon

Reference 5901-0301, Platinum model, 
Glossy black dial, black crocodile leather strap, unique pieces

Case
Platinum
Dimensions: 45.8 x 39.8 mm/height: 11.0 mm
Sapphire crystal
Sliding Teflon bolt
See-through sapphire crystal case back
Crown adorned with an “M
Movement
Hand-wound Calibre C 901
Dimensions: 30.0 mm x 35.0 mm/height: 6.25 mm
Frequency: 21,600 Vib/h
29 jewels
Power reserve: minimum 90 hours
Flat hairspring
Double Moser stripes on the plate and bridges
Movement and components hand-finished and decorated
Moser minute flying tourbillon at 6 o’clock with skeletonised bridge
Minute repeater
Dial
Glossy Black
One-minute flying tourbillon at 6 o'clock
Functions
Hours and minutes on demand
Minute repeater with hour, quarter and minute chimes
Strap
Hand-stitched black crocodile leather
Platinum pin buckle engraved with the Moser logo

Edition  - Unique piece

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H. MOSER & CIE.
MOSER SCHAFFHAUSEN AG
Rundbuckstrasse 10
CH-8212 Neuhausen am Rheinfall
Switzerland
TEL.          +41 52 674 0050
FAX          +41 52 674 0055
E-MAIL      info@h-moser.com
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