REBELLION – Predator 2.0 GMT Zenvo Edition

REBELLION – Predator 2.0 GMT Gold Zenvo Limited Edition

Rebellion Timepieces and Zenvo Automotive Announce Collaboration Zenvo Branded, Limited Edition Watch Revealed

March 7th, 2017

Lonay, Switzerland (7 March 2017) – Rebellion Timepieces, a Swiss manufacturer of high-precision watches, announces a strategic partnership with Zenvo Automotive at the 87th Geneva International Motor Show 2017. As part of the partnership, Rebellion Timepieces will develop a new watch model and timing instrumentation for Zenvo Automotive’s supercars. The partnership extends into technical collaboration with Rebellion Racing which will include shared engineering capabilities, data and testing.

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Also revealed at the show was a limited edition Predator 2.0 GMT Zenvo timepiece. This racing-inspired, dual time-zone watch features a dial adorned with a brake and a caliper hour hand. It serves as the pair’s first act of partnership.

Zenvo Automotive is a Danish manufacturer of high performance supercars and an engineering development company. Like Rebellion Timepieces, it is driven by a desire to produce highly customizable, limited edition products made with the best automotive technologies, innovation and human attention to detail.

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Nigel Gordon-Stewart, Global Commercial Director of Zenvo Automotive: “We are really thrilled about this partnership with Rebellion. I’ve admired their brand, their premium watches and their ability to just get out there and take on the big boys on the track. Their watch mechanics are really impressive and we are looking forward to utilizing their savoir-faire to provide our cars with very high-precision clocks and timing equipment.”

Philippe Dubois, CEO of Rebellion Timepieces: “I have gotten to know Nigel and Zenvo as a company very well over the previous months. Both our organizations have a lot in common. I am very impressed by their engineering and design intelligence and think that they will be a huge asset to the watch side as well as to our sister company Rebellion Racing.”

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Zenvo Automotive’s Anniversary TS1 supercar, the Predator 2.0 GMT Zenvo watch and a Rebellion Racing show car are on display at the Geneva International Motor Show until 19 March in the Palexpo convention center in Geneva.

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ZENVO Automotive  – ‘10th Anniversary TS1 GT’ Unique SuperCar 2017

Zenvo Automotive are proud to present our 10th Anniversary TS1 GT model at the 87th
Geneva International Motor Show 2017.

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The car is a unique, one-off, bespoke TS1 GT which has been built specifically to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the company. Zenvo has specified and built the car to reflect the heritage of the company and its founders from Denmark. This historic TS1 GT has been named ‘Sleipnir’ [pronounced: “Sleep-near”] after the eight-legged horse ridden by Odin, the King of the Norse gods in ancient Scandinavian mythology. Sleipnir was ‘the fastest and best horse among gods and men.’

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The recognition of the heritage of Scandinavia and its historical significance does not stop there. This very special TS1 GT has been painted in ‘Fjord Blue’ and highlighted by copper-bronze strips on the hood and roof of the car which are set into the bare carbon-fibre panels as well as contrasting copper highlights both inside and outside of the car.

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The use of copper-bronze recognizes the technological advancements by ancient Danes in exploration, trading and commerce extending from North America to Russia and the Middle East. In the pre-history of Scandinavia, Bronze was the most advanced material available. It was used in multiple applications including the design and building of chariots. Bronze was the carbon-fibre of its age and provided a technical advancement which allowed the unparalleled growth of the Vikings and the Scandinavian region. The application of advanced technology within the region continues with the production of some of the most technically advanced hypercars in the world. Using extensive lightweight carbon-fibre and other hybrid composite materials as well as a unique proprietary drivetrain with ultra-fast advanced gear-shift, traction control and ESC technology, the quality of Zenvo engineering and the precision quality of production are the worthy successors of our innovative ancestors.

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“Presenting this car at Geneva and celebrating our tenth anniversary makes me very proud and humble”, said Troels Vollertsen, Technical Director and Founder of Zenvo Automotive A/S. “We have achieved so much with a small team of highly dedicated and capable individuals. All of us recognize our heritage as pioneers of technology and remain totally committed to continue to produce and develop Zenvo cars which provide our owners and drivers with a sensational experience of performance, quality and perfect driving pleasure which is the DNA of our brand and our cars. We look forward with great excitement to the next ten years.”

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ABOUT ZENVO AUTOMOTIVE A/S

The Company was formed in 2007 as a channel for the aspirations and ambitions of a small group of highly talented Danish engineers and designers with extensive experience gained from working with Italian and German automotive companies. Led by powertrain specialist, Troels Vollertsen, with the design and styling vision of ex-RCA graduate Christian Brandt, the team wanted to realise long-held passionate ambitions to build a car which combined the traditional skills of Danish styling design with German-derived high performance technology.

Functionalistic and immediately aesthetically iconic, the Zenvo ST1 was developed over six years to demonstrate the use of ultra-lightweight composite materials in the design realisation of a car capable of performing alongside contemporary iconic supercars. A uniquely designed and engineered engine of 6.9 litres was produced for the ST1 incorporating both supercharger and turbocharger delivering 1120PS in a car made extensively from Carbon Fibre but featuring an aluminium and steel safety cell which, when tested, provided the ideal passenger environment for safety and comfort.

In 2016 Zenvo presented their revised hyper-GT, the TS1 GT, along with its racetrack-bred sibling, the TSR. A completely new engine of 5.8L capacity with twin superchargers had been developed now producing more than 1165PS. The new engine boasts a dry sump and flat-plane crankshaft configuration allowing the engine to spin more freely, rev much higher, produce power more efficiently and be mounted lower in the body for improved handling. Uniquely developed software running the Zenvo-designed high performance gearbox provides one of the fastest-shifting powertrains in existence confirming the on-going technological progress of Zenvo Automotive.

For Further information, please contact: 
press@zenvoautomotive.com
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ZENVOautomotive.com 
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REBELLION – MAGNUM 540 Grand Tourbillon SAPPHIRE Edition

REBELLION – MAGNUM 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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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

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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REBELLION – Reb-7 Forged Carbon Regulator – Only Watch 2015

REBELLION – REB-7 Forged Carbon Regulator – Only Watch 2015

The 2015 Only Watch REB-7 Forged Carbon Regulator is delivered along with Nicolas Prost's

 signed helmet and gloves, which were worn by 

the talented young driver during the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Developed to the exacting specifications of Rebellion’s master watchmaker, Laurent Besse, the movement of the REB- 7 is audacious in terms of both technical innovation and strong visual experience. 

Rebellion presents the unique Only Watch Charity Auction Reb-7 Forged Carbon Regulator for this year’s Only Watch charity auction. The exact watch worn and tested by the talented professional driver Nicolas Prost during the legendary 24-hour Le Mans endurance race in 2015, it features electric blue accents on the dial perfectly match Prost’s racing helmet.

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With this unique piece REB-7 in a forged carbon case for Only Watch, REBELLION has brought the regulator into the 21st century. On the REB-7 Only Watch, a suspended sub dial at 12 o'clock displays the hours while minutes and seconds are displayed centrally.

A date at 6 o'clock completes the indications. After the eye-catching electric blue on the hour and minutes hands and Piece Unique at the bottom of the dial, the viewer's gaze ? unhindered by a conventional dial ? is drawn into the intricacies of the movement.

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It says much about the clarity of purpose in the design that the visible micro-mechanics in no way hinder the legibility of reading the time: the latter an essential quality in a regulator. The open dial construction offers permanent visibility of nearly all of the data, without confusion.

For example, all of the black, laser-cut dates are visible as they orbit the center; however today's date is obvious as it passes under a window at 6 o'clock. The Rebellion REB-7 Forged Carbon Regulator is a unique piece for Only Watch. It was worn by Nicolas Prost during the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans and comes with his signed gloves and helmet.

When the lucky winner races off to the winner’s circle to claim this watch, they will also receive a signed helmet and gloves worn by Nicolas Prost during the 2015 24 Heures du Mans - ACO Official.

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Technical Specifications

Functions:
    Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Power Reserve
Movement:
CALIBER REB-7 regulator automatic winding
    Self Winding/Automatic
    Manufactured
    Swiss Made
Case:
    Forged carbon fiber
    Brushed
    46.00mm x 56.70mm
    19.60mm
Glass: Sapphire
Water resistance: 3.00atm / 30.00m / 100.00ft
Year: Unique piece 2015
BRACELET
Bracelet in sky blue natural rubber with butterfly folding buckle in titanium

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