JC BIVER — Catharsis Tourbillon Carillon Minute Repeater Unique Piece for Only Watch 2023
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On a starlit night, the moon cresting over the horizon, a wave of sapphires breaks, sweeping aside hands and indexes to reveal a new order.
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Catharsis is a singular interpretation of the minute repeater carillon tourbillon, with no visible display of time. Made of titanium, the piece combines unusual handcrafts, with unique techniques for invisible gem-setting, stone marquetery and guilloché.
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Catharsis
What is it about time that fascinates, if not obsesses, humans? Forever we have tried to interpret it, understand it and sometimes even master it. Watches for Jean-Claude and Pierre Biver, who are both passionate collectors, have always harbored this duality: on one side showing us we are well and alive in this time; on the other indicating our own time passing and slowly running out.
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The singularity of this minute repeater carillon tourbillon resides in its giving the time without your having to look at it. The concept is to replace it with a true work of art, and in so doing to enhance the timekeeper. The starry sky above is made of silver obsidian, chosen for attributes recognized for thousands of years: it confers dynamism, optimism and is very stimulating. With stars of opal and a moon of meteorite, this sky is deeply poetic, levitating above the seascape that occupies the lower part of the dial.
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The Catharsis timepiece is a distillation of watchmaking culture aimed at the enlightened watch lover. Each element tells a story, creating a bridge between the past, the present and the future. It is both a collector's item and an art object, as even its smallest constituents, including those that cannot be seen, are decorated by hand. Because it is in the finishing touches that one recognizes the Biver signature, the quest for invisible beauty.
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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Name: Catharsis
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Unique piece for Only Watch 2023
Technical Specifications
Functions: Hours, tourbillon, carillon minute repeater, micro-rotorMovement
Caliber JCB-002
Type: Automatic caliber, wound by micro-rotor
Winding and setting the time: via the crown (2 positions)
Caliber characteristics
Number of components: 374
Jewels: 44 rubies
Diameter: 34 mm
Power reserve: 72 hours
Specificity: platinum micro-rotor with decorative plate in rose gold
Frequency: 21,600 vibrations per hour (3Hz)
Decorations: white gold bridges, black-polished and grained; steel components, black-polished and satin-
finished; bevels, black-polished and straight-grained
Display
No visible display of time
Dial: silver obsidian hardstone, meteorite and opal
Gem-setting: 💎89 blue sapphires, each of a different size and weight
Hour hand (on the movement side): flame-blued by hand
Case
Vaterial: Grade 5 Titanium
Diameter: 42 mm
Thickness: 13.90 mm
Crystal: Sapphire with inner anti-reflective coating
Case back: display back with sapphire crystal
Water resistance: 5 ATM (50 meters, approx. 160 feet)
Bracelet
Leather strap, hand-stitching
Buckle: Buckle and pin in Grade 5 Titanium
🔴Price Lot 10 Estimated at CHF 500,000 - CHF 700,000 💰
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