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Friday, January 21, 2022

Ulysse Nardin – Classico “TIGER” Edition

 

Ulysse NardinClassicoTIGERGold Special Edition 2022

YEAR OF THE TIGER ULYSSE NARDIN CELEBRATES SUCCESS,
STRENGHT AND BRAVENESS IN THE CHINESE YEAR OF THE TIGER
THE "PRINCE" OF THE JUNGLE.

Ulysse Nardin Classico Tiger - Year of the Tiger, a special edition in Champlevé and Paillonné enamelling

In China, the Year of the Tiger is greeted with joy and celebration. Ulysse Nardin is delighted to join in the revelry. Passionate, daring, confident and determined, people born in the year of the tiger are considered to be brave and respected for their courage by both friends and foes. They can go from being fiery and fearless to calm and emotional in a blink of an eye. They always impress people with an image of power and authority. The third in a 12-year cycle of Chinese Zodiac signs, this important occasion is being marked by Ulysse Nardin in an original way. 

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The Classico “Tiger” in rose gold – produced in a limited-edition series of 88 pieces to mark the 2022 event – is vibrant yet elegant. Using two-centuries-old methods of enamelling (champlevé and paillonné enamelling), the artist’s sketch is brought to life.

Champlevé enamelling

A decorative technique forgotten and mastered only by a handful of craftsmen; enamel is only used on exceptional watches. A rare art form mastered by only a few, the champlevé technique involves carving directly onto the dial, creating individual “cells” that are then filled with enamel. The colours come from a careful blending of different metallic oxides. The dial is fired until the enamel melts before being smoothed and polished when cooled down. The final step – which is also the most delicate – involves enriching the motif by chiselling metal elements onto the surface.

Paillonné enamelling

What sets this Ulysse Nardin Classico Tiger watch apart is the art of “paillonné enamelling”, an age-old decorative technique. Motifs cut from a thin gold or silver leaf, the paillons (or strips), are placed by hand one by one at the right place. Once the design is done, the figures are also covered with another layer of enamel and fired in the same oven. This translucent coat will protect the paillonné motif for centuries to come, as if freezing it in place for all eternity. Here, the moon is made with silver strips and the stars are made of 3 distinctive gold strips. The tridimensional effect on the watch is breathtaking.

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The process of creating enamelled faces is delicate and difficult to master, an artisanal competence that requires that over 90% of the process is done by hand. There is no available modern technology that can enhance the process. A leader in this field, Donzé Cadrans workshops from Le Locle, Switzerland, were integrated to the Ulysse Nardin Manufacture in 2011. Although all enamel processes are alike, each of them is different, requiring exceptional precision and skills. Complexity, fine details, realistic decorations and a magical ensemble effect explain in particular the intense and ancestral desire of collectors to own enamelled watches. Donzé Cadrans, despite the changing times, helps to maintain the techniques of enamel in the purest of traditions. The enamel fabrication process could never be industrialized: instinct and humility cannot be programmed, and this is what defines the craftsmen’s talent of Donzé Cadrans.

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Powered by the self-winding movement with 42 hours power reserve, the 40 mm Ulysse Nardin Classico “Tiger” has a black alligator strap with a rose-gold buckle and an open sapphire case-back. Water-resistant to 50m, the rose-gold polished case sets off the gold Tiger motif to perfection.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection  Classico 

Model:   Classico TIGEREdition

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 Reference 8152-111LE-9E-TIGER/1A

Movement
    Calibre UN-815
    Self-winding movement
    Features: Hours, minutes, seconds
    21 rubies
    4 Hz / 28’800 V/H
    Power reserve 42
hours
    COSC Certification
Case
    Rose Gold
    Sapphire glass
    Case back: Rose gold and open sapphire case-back
    Diameter 40 mm
    Water-resistance 50 meters
Dial
    Champlevé and Paillonné Enamel
    Produced by Donzé Cadrans and @lozerongravure 
Strap
Black alligator strap fastened with a folding clasp


Price    40’600 CHF / EUR 40.600,-

Limited Edition 88 pieces

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Ulysse Nardin – DIVER Chronograph and MARINE Megayacht Edition

Ulysse NardinDIVER Chronograph Monaco Yacht Show and MARINE Megayacht Tourbillon Special Limited Edition 2021

HEADING FOR THE BAY OF MONACO !

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To mark thc return of thc world's most prestigious yachting, show, two new
limited-editions will join the MARINE and DIVER collections, which represent thc maritime origins or Ulysse Nardin.

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Monaco, September 22, 2021 – A leading manufacturer of navigational instruments since 1846 the Swiss watch manufacturer’s favourite playground has always been the Ocean. For the past 175 years, Ulysse Nardin has been living, breathing, growing and creating new timepieces to reflect the rhythm of the waves and the sea. 

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This year, to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the company is offering two new limited editions of its DIVER and MARINE Megayacht watches, both inspired by the Ocean and enhanced with new colours touches of red and a special “Monaco Yacht Show” signature for the DIVER, and rose gold instead of platinum for the MARINE Megayacht.

Ulysse Nardin DIVER Chronograph

The Monaco Yacht Show and Ulysse Nardin, the Show’s official sponsor for over 10 years, share a passion for the sea, for Excellence, for precision and for innovation. After a “year off”, the Monaco Yacht Show is back in action and will once again welcome lovers of sumptuous yachts, incredible destinations and luxury getaways in Port Hercules at the end of September. 

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In this idyllic Mediterranean setting, Ulysse Nardin presents two new models, the Diver Monaco Yacht Show watches and the rose gold version of its fabulous and elegant Haute Horlogerie watch, the Marine Mega Yacht. Diver and Marine are the two signature collections of Ulysse Nardin’s nautical line.

So, who will lead the waves?

DIVER Chronograph, 44mm, Monaco Yacht Show Limited Edition, 100 pieces

Needless to say, the Swiss Manufacture produces some of the most reliable and contemporary diving watches on the market. The new Monaco Yacht Show Limited Edition is the jewel in the crown of the DIVER collection, an ultra-resistant model that does not falter in the face of any attack, even from the most ferocious sharks. The limited-edition, available in only 100 pieces, has a sapphire caseback and is driven by the Manufacture UN 150 automatic movement with silicium and a 48-hour power reserve. The model is also adorned with touches of red from the bezel joint and the seconds hand, to the hands-on the small counters and the date. 

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Also, the “MONACO YACHT SHOW” signature is featured under the Ulysse Nardin logo. The case, the bezel and the UN element are made of titanium and the bezel is coated with rubber. Naturally, this model has all the features of a diver’s watch ultra-resistant sapphire crystal, screw-down crown, Superluminova on the O, rotating inverted bezel for optimal readability, even in the deepest waters, and water-resistant down to 300 meters. There are several strap options rubber, metal or fabric with a Velcro fastener.

MARINE Megayacht, 44mm, 5N rose gold, 30 pieces

Launched in 2017, the Marine Torpilleur model encompasses the origins and history of Ulysse Nardin. It is the latest addition to the long line of prestigious timepieces in the Marine collection, which dates back to the 19th century when explorers travelled the oceans with the help of their onboard chronometers.  

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Setting out to sea is a key moment in any new voyage.
The voyage proposed by Ulysse Nardin offers the chance to come aboard a flagship
of inventive watchmaking with visible, elegant mechanics that feature a play on movement, combining technical versatility and the raw emotion of the ocean waves.

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Today, the Marine Torpilleur is the watch that best symbolizes this innovative and cutting edge style. This year, to celebrate its 175th anniversary, Ulysse Nardin has supplemented its Marine Torpilleur collection with two new movements, details, chronographs and enamel dials. But also a new Marine Megayacht in rose gold, to complement the 👉2019 platinum version.

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Built in the same spirit as a luxury mega yacht, the new Marine Mega Yacht watch, crafted in pink gold in a special edition of only 30 pieces, is regulated by a flying tourbillon equipped with a cage modelled on a latest-generation ship’s propeller. Intimately linked to the concept of the mega yacht, this timepiece displays on its 3D “grand feu” enamel dial, reminiscent of a ship’s bow plowing its way through the ocean waves, not only the time but also a precise representation of the Moon with an ultra-detailed surface, a sophisticated tide indicator across its width, together with an anchor raised by a chain attached to a windlass positioned at 12 o’clock indicating the power reserve.

Ulysse Nardin MARINE Megayacht Watch

With its diameter of 44 mm, this instrument displays on its dial the streamlined bows of a luxury vessel. Magnificently reproduced in 3D, it seems to surface from a pool of white gold as though it were emerging from the mist, and cuts through a sea of “Grand Feu” Enamel on a wave of foam portrayed with astonishing realism. 

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To guarantee perfect timing, this construction is regulated by a flying tourbillon. To ensure the watch is firmly anchored in the nautical world, the cage of the flying tourbillon is decorated with a propeller with its blades specially honed to guarantee the highest level of performance for the latest generation yachts. And since every detail counts, the hands, with their design inspired by the venerable marine timepieces that the Manufacture has always supplied, move majestically above this scene, like the lamps of lighthouses or buoys floating on the horizon out at sea.

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This powerful beating heart of the watch has a diameter of 37 mm, features 504 components and is wound by hand. It guarantees a power reserve of 80 hours at a cruising speed of 21,600 vibrations per hour, with the tourbillon rotating at 60 rotations per hour (or one rotation every 60 seconds).  

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Its first role is to provide an analogue time display, giving a three-dimensional presentation of the phases of the Moon and containing a mechanism that displays the height of the tides in real-time in relation to a specific location, in addition to indicating the seasonal coefficients, once the mechanism has been adjusted by the action of the winding crown, the position of which is measured in a window opened up in the side of the watch band in the same way as the screen of an exercise telegraph. Since watchmaking is above all an art form, the anchor, with its contemporary design fashioned in the form of a plowshare, linked to the chain by the anchor ring (and which itself passes through a mooring chock which might have been thought to be entirely decorative), moves in response to the movements of the winding crown so as to indicate the power reserve. Keen to be as realistic as possible, Ulysse Nardin has perfected an authentic miniature windlass, visible at 12 o’clock.

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Through the action of a set of conical wheels in contact with the winding mechanism of the barrel, the latter turns to simulate the raising of the anchor, even when the winding process has been fully completed, for the pleasure of any curious observers.

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The display of the phases of the Moon is made with the aid of a precise 3D reduced size representation of Earth’s satellite, and which, in order to make a special impact, presents a surface reminiscent of the Moon’s actual surface by reproducing it through the use of an ultra-precise engraving. It is made up of two half-spheres, one treated in blue PVD (for the period of the new Moon) and the other rhodiumized (to simulate the illuminating effect of the Sun). Its adjustment in relation to the annual calendar is undertaken through the winding crown, once its indicator is in place on the telegraph window opened up in the side of the watchband is placed on the corresponding indication (S Set position for setting the hands/TM Tide and Moon position/W position for winding the movement). In the intermediate position, the Moon phase and tide volume indication is regulated by turning the crown counterclockwise (one turn of the crown represents four days), while in the clockwise direction the operator regulates the level of the tide depending on his location (one turn of the crown represents a 0 25 turn of the disk, equivalent to 95 hours).

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This watch is certainly the only one of its kind, and should offer its 30 future owners a way to follow the manoeuvres made by the crew of their yacht, the name or motto of which may be engraved in the plaque positioned on the side of the watch band so as to make it truly unique.

 
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Technical Specifications

Model:  DIVER Chronograph 44 Monaco Yacht Show Edition

References 

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  • 1503-170LE-0A-MON/3 
  • 1503-170LE-01-MON/3 

Movement 
Caliber UN-150, Manufacture movement
Silicium escapement 
Power reserve  48 hours
Features Hours, minutes and small seconds counter at 9 o’clock
Chronometer features (minute chronometer counter at 3 o’clock, 
hour meter at 6 o’clock, central seconds chronometer)
Case 
Titanium, screw-down crown, screw-in safety push-buttons
Case back  Open case back with sapphire crystal
Diameter 44 mm
Bezel Inverted concave unidirectional rotating bezel
Water resistance 300 m
Dial 
Monaco Yacht Show” Signature
Strap 
Rubber strap with UN element

Limited Edition 100 pieces

Price 12’300 CHF / 11300 EUR / 13000 USD / 10810 GBP

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Technical Specifications

Model:  MARINE Megayacht Edition

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 References 6312-305
 

Movement 
Mechanical, manual-winding 
Caliber UN-631.
In-house designed movement
Number of components: 504 
Diameter: 37.00 mm 
Frequency: 21,600 Vib/h
Tourbillon moving at 60 rotations per hour (or one rotation every 60 seconds)
Power-Reserve: approximately 80 h
Functions  
Power reserve with anchor and windlass linked to the winding mechanism
Flying tourbillon
Moon phase indication
Indicator of tidal coefficients and volumes
In-house Enamel dial
Case 
5N Rose Gold, polished
Case-back Sapphire crystal displaying the movement inspired by a ship’s engine room
Diameter 44 mm
Water resistance 50 m
Strap 
Fully-integrated strap made of navy blue alligator leather
 
Limited Edition 30 pieces
 
Price  290'000 CHF / 266'800 EUR / 306'000 USD / 254390 GBP


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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Ulysse Nardin – DIVER X Edition 2020


Ulysse NardinDIVER X 44 Limited Edition - 2020

DIVER X CAPE HORN & NEMO POINT:
TIMEPIECES FOR THE EVEREST OF THE SEAS

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THE TOUGHEST WATCHES FOR THE MOST MERCILESS CHALLENGE:
THE VENDEE GLOBE RACE

The Vendée Globe is the world’s most daunting open-ocean race and Ulysse Nardin has risen to the challenge by creating the peerless Diver X Cape Horn and Diver X Nemo Point.

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Paris, November 13, 2019 - In the spirit that unites Ulysse Nardin with the explorers and fearless adventurers of the world, the Swiss manufacture, located in Le Locle near Neuchatel, has partnered with the Vendée Globe to sponsor the world’s most challenging sailing race.

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UN has created the DIVER X CAPE HORN and the DIVER X NEMO POINT - watches bringing the X-factor to tackle world’s roughest seas - in honor of the sailors who choose to risk everything by taking this daunting, dangerous challenge, many passing through Nemo Point - a location where the nearest inhabited landmass is over 2700 kilometers away.

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The ultimate test in ocean racing, the Vendée Globe begins and ends in the Sables d’Olonne, in the Vendée region of France. Competed without any support, stops or technical assistance of any kind, skippers face icy cold conditions, mountainous waves, leaden skies and howling gales as they traverse the Atlantic and Southern Oceans to sail solo around the planet’s roughest seas.

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Taking place once every four years, the course – often referred to as the “Everest of the Seas” - takes the monohull yachts from the French coast 40,075 kilometers on a north-south trajectory around the circumference of the Earth. To limit the risk of encounters with icebergs, the Race Direction has established a zone prohibited to sailing, called the Antarctic Exclusion Zone (AEZ) which goes around the Antarctic between the 45° on the Croset Islands side and the 68° S off Cape Horn.

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The next Vendée Globe race begins on November 8, 2020 and will mark 30 years since the first challenge and Ulysse Nardin will be the official timekeeper.

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This is not a race for those who doubt themselves”, says Patrick Pruniaux, CEO of Ulysse Nardin. “This is a challenge for modern-day Ulysses who believe that they will be able to confront themselves, their fears and nature’s strongest forces in order to complete an Odyssey of epic proportions.”
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"We are delighted to welcome Ulysse Nardin as Official Timer of the Vendée Globe 2020-2021. This pioneering brand of Swiss Haute Horlogerie has been built internationally in connection with the nautical world. It is therefore natural that the Vendée Globe, the international reference for solo offshore racing, and Uysse Nardin have come together to found this partnership for the next edition.” Said Yves Auvinet, President of Vendée Globe.



DIVER X CAPE HORN, 44MM

Cape Horn, one of the land points the Vendée Globe sailors must pass by on their voyage around the world, is one of the most treacherous routes. As they navigate around the southernmost tip of Chile, skippers face icebergs, violent winds and dangerous currents, making this one of the most confrontational chapters in the renowned round-the-world race.

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As they circumnavigate the globe, the passage around Cape Horn is one of the most harrowing because, as the point at which the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet, nature unleashes an array of furies, each more precarious than the next. The geographical coordinates of Cape Horn as well as the route of the Vendée Globe race are stamped on the back of each watch.

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With its saffron burnt orange stitching on the strap to recall the Spice Route or the harrowing trip around Tierra del Fuego, carbon bezel and instantly recognizable “X” on the face, the Ulysse Nardin Diver X CAPE HORN - the official watch of the Vendée Globe - will be issued in a limited edition of 300 pieces only.

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Its UN-118 movement guarantees accuracy in any hemisphere at any time of the day or night. The fabric strap is made from cutting-edge technology closing scratch: adjustable yet light, this material pairs magnificently with the ultra-light, carbon face. The satin black “X” is boldly stamped 6-12 in relief across the face.

DIVER X NEMO POINT, 44MM

One of the locations many of the sailors cross is Nemo Point, a position in the South Pacific off of the coast of Chile, named after author Jules Verne’s seafaring captain, which is quite literally in the middle of nowhere. Closer to the International Space Station than to solid land, Point Nemo is Located at 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W, the location in the ocean that is farthest from land.

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It is an oceanographic location which sits within the South Pacific Gyre, the most remote position on planet Earth. Sailing through Nemo Point, many of the sailors participating in the Vendée Globe find themselves in this massive, rotating ocean current, a centripetal force that tests them to the very core. The geographical coordinates of Nemo Point as well as the route of the Vendée Globe race are stamped on the back of each watch.

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With its blue fabric strap with red lining, it is reminiscent of the leash on a surfboard. The closing scratch is made with cutting-edge technology. The blue rubber bezel and instantly recognizable “X” on the face, the Ulysse Nardin DIVER X NEMO POINT will be issued in a limited edition of 300 pieces only.

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Its UN-118 movement guarantees accuracy in any hemisphere at any time of the day or night.  The blue “X” is boldly stamped in relief across the face and the route of the Vendée Globe is stamped on the back.

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Technical Specifications

Model: DIVER X

Reference:

DIVER X Cape Horn  

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Reference:  1183-170LE/92-CAP

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DIVER X Nemo Point   

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Reference:  1183-170LE/93-NEMO

Movement:
Caliber UN-118.
Dimension: 13 ¾ ’’
In-house designed movement
Escapement, patented DIAMonSIL
Oscillator: patented inertial balance wheel with Silicium hairspring
50 jewels
Power-Reserve: approximately 60 h
Winding: self-winding
Functions:
H/M/Small second, date, power reserve
Chronometer COSC with power-reserve indicator at 12’oclock
Small direct seconds and round date window at 6 o’clock
Forward and backward date corrector
Case:
  • Titanium black DLC case with titanium & carbon bezel 
  • Titanium case with blue rubberized bezel
Diameter: 44 mm 
Thickness: 13.40 mm
Bezel: Inverted concave unidirectional rotating white rubberized bezel
Crown: Screw down security crown, covered with rubber
Case back: Stamped with the route of the Vendée Globe
Water-resistance: 300 m
Dial

Grey face is marked with a bold and elegant “X
Strap
Fabric strap with Velcro closing

Limited Edition: 500 pieces

Price
DIVER X Cape Horn : 9’900 CHF
DIVER X Nemo Point : 8’900 CHF


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Thursday, March 5, 2020

Ulysse Nardin – FREAK X Ice & MAGMA 2020

Ulysse NardinFREAK X New Collection 2020

Let Your Heart Beat Wild As 
The Freak X Goes "Ice & Fire MAGMA"

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CARSTEN PETER
PHOTOGRAPHER, FILMMAKER, 
BIOLOGIST, ADVENTURER.

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Carsten Peter, a World Press Photo award winner and regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, specializes in going to extremes: scuba diving in a glacier on Mont Blanc, crossing the Sahara on a camel, caving in Borneo. He is always living on the edge with his camera, searching for where nature is still pure and where his survival will depend on his wits and his skills as a technical climber, paraglider, caver, diver, and canyoneer.

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He is enthusiastically obsessed with devising innovative photographic techniques to capture never-before-seen images from some of the scariest environments on the planet. His many adventures include braving toxic caverns and acid waterfalls to shoot within the deepest ice shafts on earth, rappelling into active volcanoes with turbulent lava lakes and superheated thermal caves, and breaking altitude records while flying his motorized paraglider.

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In addition to his World Press award – for his coverage of tornadoes while stormchasing in the American West – he has received an Emmy Award for his videography from inside an active volcano in the South Pacific. Photographer, filmmaker, biologist and adventurer, Carsten embodies the Ulysse Nardin spirit and the desire each one of us has within us to embark on our own Odyssey.

INTRODUCING TWO NEW DANGEROUSLY DESIGNED FREAK X MODELS: 
AN XPLOSIVE LAVA RED CARBON-FIBER TOUR-DE-FORCE AND 
A COOL FROSTED WHITE FORCE OF NATURE.

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FEAR THE COLD, CRAVE THE BURN

Le Locle, March 4th, 2020 - The unique engineering and design of these two models take the Freak concept to a new level, the lifeblood of Ulysse Nardin’s pioneering innovation pumping through each piece.  Reflecting, respectively, the stoic polar ice floes and the majestic volcanos that regenerate the earth, they are an appetizing preview of the upcoming Ulysse Nardin novelties.

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Like Homer’s fearless hero, Ulysse Nardin has once again gone to Xtremes to visit the furthermost forces of nature with its two new Freak X timepieces. The FREAK X ICE in titanium and the FREAK X MAGMA in lava red carbon fiber and titanium black DLC will make you fear the cold and crave the burn.

FREAK X MAGMA: A LAVA STORM AT THE HEART OF THE EARTH

Made from a seismic combination of ultra-light carbon fiber and red, marbled epoxy resin, each FREAK X MAGMA is unique. Stripped down to its essential components, it is ultra-light, scratch-resistant and streamlined. Volcanic, vigorous and virile, the combination of red and black is mesmerizing and energizing. Masculine, angular and lava red, Ulysse Nardin’s FREAK X MAGMA is a force of nature, a watch of style, action and elegance.

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With a red point-de-bride and a black leather strap - equipped with a folding clasp – it is evocative of obsidian volcanic rock and the lava flow at its origin; the combination of sandblasted and polished-effects on the bezel and a satiny smooth dial reflects a volcanic environment.

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The Superluminova applied on red color allows the wearer to read the time even in the pitch of night. The open case back of this boutique-only edition lays bare the UN-230 self-winding movement – a masterpiece of Ulysse Nardin’s legendary watchmaking.

CARSTEN PETER, A NEW ULYSSE OF THE XTREME

To embody this volatile life force, Ulysse Nardin is partnering with Carsten Peter, a nature photographer and storyteller of the Xtreme. His Xplosive images take the viewer to places most would never dare to go; over glaciers, into tornadoes and right up to the intense heat present around volcanoes.  Carsten is an award-winning regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine specialized in capturing never-before-seen images of some of the most remote and dangerous places on the planet.

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Using innovative techniques, he pioneers himself, he brings toxic caverns, thermal caves and lava lakes to life before sharing them with the world. Photographer, filmmaker, biologist and adventurer, Carsten embodies the Ulysse Nardin spirit and the desire each one of us has within us to embark on our own Odyssey.

FREAK X ICE: A JOURNEY INTO THE XTREME

Ice and fire join forces in this new incandescent FREAK X ICE model. Reminiscent of prehistoric glaciers, this fresh model will make your heart beat wild hot and cold with the call to go insane as ice catches fire and burns.  Never has there been a better time to release your inner Ulysses, embrace risk and chase your dreams with the FREAK X ICE as the perfect tool to accompany you into uncharted waters. The titanium alabaster watch case will give your winter lips a feverish touch.

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Inside the FREAK X ICE beats the UN-230 self-winding movement, visible through the open case-back. The sturdy, adjustable, white leather strap with rubber coating is equipped with a folding clasp while navy blue indexes, point-de-bride and Superluminova evoke the polar ice floes, making each watch a call to adventure on your wrist.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection FREAK 

References
FREAK X MAGMA : 2303-270/MAGMA-BQ
FREAK X ICE :
          2303-270/00

Movement
Caliber UN-230
, self-winding movement
Functions  Flying carrousel movement rotating around its own axis
Oversize central oscillator with large diameter
3 Hz Silicium balance wheel
Index & bridges with Superluminova
Power reserve 72 hours
Case
Titanium / Titanium with black DLC
Titanium with white-finish matte coating
Diameter  43 mm
Case back Sapphire crystal
Water resistance    50 m       
Strap
“Volcanic rock” black leather strap, folding clasp, red point-de-bride
Openworked white leather strap with rubber coating, folding clasp
Dark blue inserts

World prices
FREAK X MAGMA, Boutique Only        27’000 EUR
FREAK X ICE                                           24’000 EUR



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