Lebeau-Courally – Le Dauphin Sotogrande Grand Prix 2017 Edition

Lebeau-Courally – LE DAUPHIN Sotogrande Grand Prix 2017 Limited Edition

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Lebeau-Courally: on the starting-line for 

the first edition of the Sotogrande Grand Prix

Lebeau-Courally has announced its sponsorship of another of the world’s major Prestige Rallies: the first edition of the Sotogrande Grand Prix, Spain, from May 24 to 28, 2017.

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Sotogrande is Andalucia’s first and largest privately owned leisure and real estate destination, an enclave wholly given over to elegance and Mediterranean chic.  Its carefully preserved lifestyle has long been a favourite with the internationally discreetly wealthy since 1962 – a now it is to host its first very own International Rally, the Sotogrande Grand Prix.

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The event will bring together the finest prestige automobiles built between 1920 and 1965. A Top Marques exhibition, a Rally, a Concours d’Elégance and a GT Tour: without question, the programme for the first edition of the Sotogrande Grand Prix already positions it as one of the finest international get-togethers for car-lovers – overseen by Lebeau-Courally, the one and only Official Timekeeper selected for the event.

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“We are already partners of the Zoute Grand Prix in Belgium, so our manufacture is now well-established in this type of particularly specialised prestige event; besides, the Sotogrande Grand Prix is the first international exportation of Zoute,” explains Lebeau-Courally’s manager Laurens Peeters. “Sotogrande is also fully in keeping with our positioning as a fine watchmaking firm aimed at experienced collectors – and that includes those keen on exceptional cars. Lebeau-Courally will be Platinum sponsor of the event; that’s the highest level of partnership, right behind the municipality of Sotogrande itself.”

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This edition is set to be remembered as the first of many more to follow. To mark the occasion, Lebeau-Courally will be producing a very limited edition of just 25 timepieces, with 43 mm cases featuring hours, minutes, and a date display.

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Technical Specifications

LE DAUPHIN SOTOGRANDE 43 MM LIMITED EDITION 2017

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Case
Polished steel case
Diameter: 43 mm
Presentation case: wood
Water resistance: 5 bars (50 m)
Movement
Automatic Swiss caliber
Caliber LC 2824
Height: 4.6 mm
Frequency: 28,800 vph (4 Hz)
25 jewels
Power reserve: 42 hours
Type: hours, minutes, seconds, date
Dial
Blue, luminous hands
Strap
Black alligator

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Lebeau-Courally – MICRO-ROTOR II

Lebeau-Courally – MICRO-ROTOR II

LEBEAU-COURALLY’S NEW MOVEMENT
AND NEW, 100% IN-HOUSE COLLECTION

Lebeau-Courally presents second series of its “Manufacture” collection – the Micro II. This new movement, wholly designed, manufactured, and assembled in-house at Le Locle, is fitted with a micro-rotor. It has already been used in four limited editions engraved in Liège, the beating heart of Lebeau-Courally. The new, manufacture caliber is also being made available to third-party firms.

In 2012, Lebeau-Courally was bought out by the Ide family from Belgium, thereby becoming wholly independent. Three years later, in 2015, the family also acquired the IMH manufacture in Le Locle. In 2016, Lebeau-Courally unveiled its first all in-house movement, the Moon Phase. And now, in March 2017, Lebeau- Courally is unveiling its latest 100%-manufacture development – the Micro II.

Micro refers to the fact that the central feature of our movement is a micro-rotor; the ‘II’ denotes the fact that it’s our second all in-house development,” explains Laurens Peeters, Lebeau-Courally’s manager. “The Micro II is a key milestone for us: it really is a foundational caliber, on which we’ll be building the future of our forthcoming Manufacture collections.”

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Beating at a rate of 28,800 vibrations per hour and equipped with a three day power reserve (Appx 72 hours), the movement – only 30 mm in diameter and a mere 3.1 mm thick – displays the hours and minutes in the centre, with a small seconds display at 9 o’clock. Initially, it will be used in four limited editions totalling 45 pieces in all: two series in red gold and two in steel, each available in engraved and non-engraved options.

The engraving will be carried out in Liège, the world capital of precision engraving, at Lebeau-Courally’s headquarters. The timepieces themselves will be designed, built, assembled, and tested in Le Locle, thus easily exceeding the minimum legal requirements to qualify as Swiss Made. The first Micro II collections will be available in September 2017. The basic movement is also available to third-party brands, and is already being marketed and delivered.

LEBEAU-COURALLY MICRO-ROTOR:
OUR HERITAGE IN MOTION

The Micro-Rotor is the next step in the fusion of the master crafts that lie embedded in Lebeau-Courally’s DNA. It combines state-of-the-art skills: those of the Lebeau-Courally watch manufacture in Le Locle, and those at the workshop in Liège, home to centuries of expertise in the creation, on commission, of exclusive hunting arms for art collectors and connoisseurs.

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 Built around a new automatic caliber that facilitates the creation of ultra-slim, elegant, Swiss Made watches, the Micro-Rotor features new aesthetics and a bespoke personality created by the master engravers in the Liège ateliers, together with ultimate watch performance.

A NEW MOVEMENT IN WATCHMAKING

For its second range of manufacture watches, Lebeau-Courally has developed a new movement, destined to become the foundation for additional watch models in the future: the Micro II. The main challenge faced by our Swiss watchmaking atelier was to create a robust, reliable basis for slimmer, more elegant watches, whilst also ensuring all the comfort and precision of a traditional self-winding caliber.
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A MINIMALIST DESIGN ENHANCING CLARITY

The watch face of the Lebeau-Courally Micro-Rotor exudes elegance and sobriety, enhancing its clarity and ease of use. With its central hours and minutes hands, plus a seconds hand at nine o’ clock, the Micro-Rotor performs its sole function – that of telling the time – with admirable clarity. What is more, the austere design offers the perfect setting for optional, bespoke engraving by the Lebeau-Courally Manufacture in Liège.

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Technical details

MICRO-ROTOR II

Movement
Power reserve: 72 hours
Automatic winding
28,800 vibrations per hour (4Hz)
Pointing 20.5
28 jewels
Number of components: 166

Technical Specifications for the MICRO II Calibre

Movement 
Shape and type

• Round caliber
• Power reserve: 72 hours
• Automatic winding
• 28,800 vibrations per hour (4Hz)
• Pointing 20.5
• 28 jewels
• Number of components: 166

Dimensions in mm

• Overall diameter 30.6 mm
• Casing fitting diameter 30 mm
• Movement thickness: 3.1 mm

Functions

• Analogue display: Central
hours and minutes hands,
seconds hand at 9 o’clock
• Micro-rotor

 Setting and adjustment

• Winding stem with
2 positions
1. Running and manual winding
2. Time setting

Models

• Steel Case 42 MM

Anthracite dial with Arabic numerals
Large hands: hours and minutes
Small seconds hand at 9 o’clock
Power reserve: 72 hours
Sapphire crystal and caseback
Black crocodile skin strap, hand-sewn, steel clasp
Suggested retail price: 8,500 CHF (all taxes included)

• Red Gold Case 42MM

Anthracite dial with Arabic numerals
Large hands: hours and minutes
Small seconds hand at 9 o’clock
Power reserve: 72 hours
Sapphire crystal and caseback
Black crocodile skin strap, hand-sewn, red gold clasp
Suggested retail price: 19,000 CHF (all taxes included)

• Engraved - Steel Case 42MM

Part-openwork anthracite dial with Arabic numerals, acanthus pattern hand engraving by the Lebeau-Courally master crafts manufacture in Liège
Large hands: hours and minutes
Small seconds hand at 9 o’clock
Power reserve: 72 hours
Sapphire crystal and caseback
Black crocodile skin strap, hand-sewn, steel clasp
Suggested retail price: 11,500 CHF (all taxes included)

• Engraved - Red Gold Case 42 MM

Part-openwork anthracite dial with Arabic numerals, acanthus pattern hand engraving by the Lebeau-Courally master crafts manufacture in Liège
Large hands: hours and minutes
Small seconds hand at 9 o’clock
Power reserve: 72 hours
Sapphire crystal and caseback
Black crocodile skin strap, hand-sewn, red gold clasp
Suggested retail price: 22,000 CHF (all taxes included)


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Lebeau-Courally – Le Comte Tourbillon & Le Marquis "Haute Joaillerie"

Lebeau-Courally – Le Comte Tourbillon & Le Marquis "Haute Joaillerie" NEW

The first Tourbillon that has bespoke engraved in its dna Le Comte Tourbillon

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The iconic manufacturer Lebeau-Courally has adopted as its vocation to preserve the age-old craft traditions which it brings together in synergy between its watchmaking and gunmaking activities.

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Both in its world-renowned wildfowling pieces and in its timepieces with their unique character, hand craftsmanship plays an important role along with Lebeau-Courally’s unrivalled know-how. Always determined to meet the very highest watchmaking standards, Lebeau-Courally presents two new products to even greater effect this summer of 2014.

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The most notable original feature of Le Comte, absolutely specific to this model, is its patented system for opening the back cover. Based directly on the traditional “clef de fusil” mechanism used for shotguns, this takes the form of a lever at the side of the watch body which when operated reveals a double bottom.

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This complex, delicate mechanism demonstrates all the precision, care and know-how of the Lebeau-Courally brand. The uniquely inventive concept is the ultimate watchmaking homage to the shotguns that are crafted with the utmost concern for tradition and excellence.

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Lebeau-Courally also invites its customers to participate in the creation of their own timepiece by including a personalised engraving on the inside of the cover, making the Le Comte watch even more unique, a veritable work of art which is as exceptional as it is personal.

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With this participative and creative approach, the specific Lebeau-Courally know-how naturally comes to the fore by employing the craft procedures normally used for decorating shotguns. The company’s master engravers, among the best in the world, put all their talent into producing the personalised engraving designed entirely to meet the individual customer’s own ideas and aesthetic tastes.

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For Lebeau-Courally this is yet another way of reaffirming the very close links between watchmaking and the artistic crafts in their deepest tradition. To add to this personalised engraving, the Le Comte watch is now distinguished even further by the ultimate watchmaking complication, namely the tourbillion. A technical masterpiece, the tourbillion currently represents the nec plus ultra of the perfect perpetual movement. The result is a timepiece made according to an aesthetic and symbolic concept as innovative as can be to enclose the most complex-ever mechanism of Haute Horlogerie.

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The tourbillion is a true mechanism within a mechanism, with its own spring and its own case, further guaranteeing the exclusive character, the tremendous attention to detail and at the same time the modern approach which the Lebeau-Corrally brand brings to this top-of-the-range model. The Le Comte watch has rightly earned a full place among the truly exceptional timepieces, in a further demonstration of the dynamism and innovative qualities of this Belgian brand. The best way to tell the time while telling a unique story!

The art of jewelsetting:
Le Marquis "Haute Joaillerie"

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The creation of an exceptional watch has to meet certain strict requirements in the same way as creating a piece of jewellery. The demands of aesthetics, security and presentation determine the techniques that are used to assure the mechanisms and the splendour of the watches. In the jewel settings especially, the artistic prowess brought to be bear must be specially adapted to precisely meet the requirements of watchmaking.

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Drawing on its experience of tooling luxury shotguns that are destined to become collector’s items, in its most exclusive projects Lebeau-Courally draws on the craft procedures that have already proved their worth throughout its history, applying them to different artistic techniques. As it happens, tooling and engraving have many similarities with jewelsetting in terms of the techniques and implements used, providing a shared foundation for work that is essentially similar.

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The Lebeau-Courally designers and artisans have brought two aesthetic techniques and approaches together to present this exclusive creation with its full jewelsetting: - The technique most commonly used in watchmaking is the rail setting. In this case the jewels are slid between two parallel grooves like tiny rails. This is the technique used for baguette-cut jewels.

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Here the jewels are arranged around the inside of the dial with infinite care. - To hold the numerous diamonds that are rigorously selected and cut for perfect symmetry, the pavé setting more commonly used in jewelmaking has been miniaturised here with all the talent of master craftsmen, giving a smooth, harmonious effect to the jewelsetting of the watch.

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The unique, fully set watch employs 1524 diamonds and 36 pavé-cut stones together totalling 12 carats. This exceptional creation demanded 35 days of cutting and two full weeks of jewelsetting to attain the level of excellence that befits an exclusive objet d’art, a work of art in its own right. If these exceptional timepieces are as fascinating as they are scintillating, it is because they crystallise the most accomplished craftsmanship of haute joaillerie.

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The House of Lebeau-Courally holds its mission dear to reflect the nobility and high added value in its creations, combining the excellence of their craftsmanship with their highly technical content. The jewelsetting techniques already used in gunsmithing are exemplified by Le Marquis Haute Joaillerie, in a demonstration that is as elegant as it is spectacular.

Lebeau-Courally – Masterpieces created by Mastercrafts

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Lebeau-Courally - Unique watch Collection

Lebeau-Courally - unique watch collection

Lebeau-Courally This unique watch collection was created by Lebeau-Courally, a manufacture of shotguns established reputation in Liege, since 1865.
Lebeau-Courally watches are manufactured in the Swiss Jura in hand with equal professionalism and attention to detail. The five top models are distinguished by their precision and beauty and are available in various designs luxurious. Each copy is assembled with the utmost care by our best craftsmen craftsmen.

 The legacy of legendary Lebeau-Courally is now also available through a collection of watches for calibers

Lebeau-Courally, the Belgian company with a reputation among fans of international arms now diversifying its offering and offers a luxury watch that is characterized by a sublime finish and refined design.

 Le Prince Tourbillon

 L'Archiduc Chronographe 

 Le Marquis

 Le Baron

 Le Dauphin

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A world-class manufacturing
The secular history of Lebeau-Courally begins in 1865, when Auguste Lebeau sets up his own business in the great tradition of arms manufacture of Liège at the time. Auguste Lebeau, known to be one of the best gunsmiths in the region, is surrounded by talented artisans and specializes in the manufacture of hunting weapons of unparalleled quality.

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Passionate, particularly inventive technically, he developed and perfected a full line of rifles for big game and small game. His virtuosity is, moreover, repeatedly crowned by the most prestigious international awards.

It was in 1896 that Auguste Lebeau chooses to partner Ferdinand Courally to give the company the family name is still has today.  

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The factory is affirmed again and again in the know-how, luxury and refinement. Token of prestige and excellence if it is, the enthusiasm of the European aristocracy for his creations! Tsar Nicolas II of Russia, the royal houses of Italy and Spain, in particular, are among its prestigious clients.

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Even today, Lebeau-Courally creations are considered worldwide as exceptional pieces. Elegance and top-notch technical design determined by the criteria of weight, accuracy and power harshest genuine delight purists. Better yet, each piece is unique, fully custom made ​​and decorated with the most careful finishing. It is therefore above all a beautiful symbolic object doubled an investment in time.

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Tradition & Vision 

Animated by the same virtues of passion and tradition, the family decides Joris Ide in 2010 to acquire this prestigious firm. The new owner has the means of an expansion policy designed to explore other markets while keeping the basic features and qualities that had previously animated the founders. It is this concern for continuity of values ​​of the company he chooses to look far into the future. Today we are witnessing the creation of an exclusive collection of watches that will open a new chapter in the book of the House-Courally Lebeau.

To ensure excellence of a production high-end, family Ide - as did all their illustrious predecessor Auguste Lebeau in 1865 - surrounded himself exclusively most skilled craftsmen. The factory naturally sees the day in Switzerland, specifically in the Canton of Bern, where craftsmen watchmakers have always been renowned for their expertise and know-how.
ETA and Technotime, two companies whose reputation is well established and specialized in this area provide mechanisms in the same spirit of rigor.

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If Lebeau-Courally is Belgian in origin and continues to hold high our beacon in the development of exclusive hunting weapons, the house now proudly bears the inscription in Swiss Made watch this new activity just as dedicated and focused on accuracy, finish and design.
The link between hunting rifles and watchesThe link between hunting rifles and watches is less strange than it seems at first glance. Did you know for example that their vocabulary has many common terms? There is talk in both disciplines gauges, springs, rockers, factories and housing. In terms of design, Joris Ide family had to strive for excellence. Thus she uses Antoine Tschumi, whose company CT Design specializes in integrated solutions for its customers. In the case of Lebeau-Courally, it will be a classic watch, incorporating subtle references to the world of hunting ... it could be otherwise!

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These references are, for example, the lever used to unlock the gun and the grid that acts as an anti-skid and provides a better grip. All models in this collection are the first two references. Gold watches are also decorated with rings of markings on the horns.

The Collection:  

Three Needles in the Whirlwind
The first collection of luxury watches Courally Lebeau-five finishes in various models, each available in limited edition. All received the name of a hunting weapon: The Dolphin, The Marquis, The Baron, The Archduke and Prince.

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