Jaquet Droz – GRANDE SECONDE Tourbillon Skelet Sapphire OPAL - Unique Piece

 

Jaquet Droz – GRANDE SECONDE Tourbillon Skelet – Skull Sapphire OPAL Dial 42mm - Unique Piece 2024 

 TOURBILLON SKELET SAPPHIRE OPAL
ELEVATING SUGGESTION TO AN ART FORM

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Whether in literature or cinema, eroticism or emotions: what is suggested is always more powerful than what is revealed. Obvious is easy. The art of suggestion is something much more subtle. Herein lies the beauty of the Tourbillon Skelet Sapphire Opal.

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Draped in sapphire, beneath a veil of opal, the piece subtly allows some of its usually hidden mechanism to be glimpsed: its skeleton movement suspended in space, powered by a flying tourbillon with a power reserve of eight days. A unique, luminous piece made for an aesthete and collector.

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At Jaquet Droz, mineral dials are a highly prized form of master craftsmanship. Chosen for their properties, colours or symbolism, stones are only rarely esteemed for their transparency. However, it is the main attraction of opal. 

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Its name, from the Sanskrit word upala meaning "precious stone", is justly deserved. Its green and blue reflections are unique.

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Opal is one of the very rare stones to change its colour based on exposure to light. This phenomenon has its own name – iridescence – to describe this rare property of spontaneous chromatic variation.

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This property makes opal truly the centrepiece of the new Tourbillon Skelet Sapphire. Radiant and luminous, the creation is bathed in light thanks to a case made entirely from sapphire machined in the Swiss city of La Chaux-de-Fonds.

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Inside this showcase, light does not only strike the opal dial from above, as in a classic watch construction. Here, light is everywhere. It penetrates the piece from the back, front, and sides. It snakes through the movement.

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Wends its way between the bridges and gear train. It skims the tourbillon, caresses the hands, weaves around the gold oscillating weight, escaping again through the middle. Always present, never captured. The opal reveals its movement, echoing its path with shimmering reflections.

It is powered by a Swiss Made precision mechanism.

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With its signature Jaquet Droz figure-of-eight design, the movement features a skeleton flying tourbillon at 12 o'clock, counterbalanced by the hours and minutes at 6 o'clock. 

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The two are perfectly visible thanks to two openings in the opal, which is just 7/10th of a millimetre thick.

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For this unique piece, the movement has a power reserve of eight days, and features an anthracite gray coating. This is complemented by the white gold of the hands, crown, and signature Jaquet Droz screws (with star-shaped heads).

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The 42-mm case on a white rubber strap is perfect for any wrist, male or female. A unique piece, precise and precious, which combines the traditional tourbillon with a uniquely disruptive and unexpected play of light.

  “Some watches tell time, some tell a story.”

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection  GRANDE SECONDE

Model: Tourbillon Skelet – Sapphire OPAL Edition

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Reference: J0135270291 

Unique piece 1/1

Case
Material: Sapphire
Diameter: 42 mm
Thickness: 13.76 mm
18-karat white gold crown and tube
Water-resistant to 30 meters (3 bar)
Dial and hands
Sapphire dial with a transparent opal base.
Indexes and dial fixing axes in 18-karat white gold
18k white gold hands
Movement
 Caliber Jaquet Droz 2625SQ
Self-winding skeleton tourbillon movement, black treatment
Silicon balance spring and pallet horns, titanium tourbillon frame, single barrel, 18-karat white gold oscillating weight
Jewelling     30 jewels
Power reserve     7 days
Frequency     21,600 v.p.h.
Functions
Hours, minutes, seconds Tourbillon
Indications     
Off-centered hours and minutes at 6 o'clock.
Tourbillon frame and off-centered seconds at 12 o’clock. 
Strap     
Rubber strap
Buckle   Stainless steel and plasma ceramic folding clasp

🔰 Limited Edition  to Unique only 1 pieces

🔴 Price: CHF 438'000 (incl. taxes)💰

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Bell & Ross – BR-X5 Black TITANIUM

 

Bell & Ross – URBAN BR-X5 Black TITANIUM Automatic 2024

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 THE LIGHTNESS OF TITANIUM

Every professional instrument watch developed by Bell & Ross is decidedly modern. Designed with a famously lightweight metal, the new BR-X5 Black Titanium is no different.

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  With a long history of use in aviation, titanium has also won its spurs in contemporary fine watchmaking. Lightweight, comfortable, and resilient, this high-tech material offers a style all its own, with an understated colour that differs slightly from stainless steel and white gold. 

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Weighing in a full third lighter than steel and boasting an extraordinary weight-to-strength ratio, titanium has many more remarkable intrinsic qualities, from being hypoallergenic to being highly resistant to corrosion. 

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These properties are compounded by the X5's sandwich type case, which is also designed to be lightweight and durable.

THE POWER OF DESIGN

The architecture of the multi-component case favours purity and radicality, lightness and resistance. 

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Assembled around a waterproof container which protects the manufacture of movement, the 41mm case is hollowed out and made of titanium, making it lighter and more comfortable. The square bezel and sapphire glasses are fixed on two plates to form the top and bottom of the case. 

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  The whole is kept watertight with four screws through the entire case, in a multi-layer assembly that keeps the piece perfectly sound. 

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  Made entirely of grade 2 titanium, the case has an easily recognizable grey tint. Its anti-reflective matt finish is achieved through fine micro-sandblasting, an understated choice that showcases the model's unique design.

FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPLES

With the BR-X5 line, Bell & Ross reaches new heights when it comes to style and performance. 

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"With its manufacture movement and sophisticated design, the BR-X5 has become an iconic watch for the brand and its watchmaking expertise", emphasises Bruno Belamich, Bell & Ross Creative Director and co-founder. The intention is clear: functionality takes centre stage. 

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The indices are clear and precise in their readability. The dial houses a large date aperture at 3 o'clock, and a circular power reserve indicator at 9 o'clock. 

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The indices and hands (other than the seconds) are covered with SLN X1 type white luminescent material, for optimal readability by both day and night. The minute indices are displayed on a flange.

A MOVING PERFORMANCE: COSC-CERTIFIED CHRONOMETER

Like every watch in the BR-X5 collection, the new BR-X5 Black Titanium is powered by the BR-CAL.323 self-winding mechanical movement. This calibre has a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz) and a power reserve of approximately 70 hours.

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The highly precise movement is equipped with an oscillating weight and a variable-inertia balance wheel, both visible through the large sapphire crystal caseback.

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Another advantage of the manufacture movement is its rapid date correction device, adjustable at any time. The calibre is guaranteed for 5 years with a proven performance: it is chronometer certified by the COSC, Switzerland's official chronometer testing institute. A benchmark piece.

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With its titanium design, the technical, innovative BR-X5 is a contemporary expression of Bell & Ross' watchmaking expertise. Performance material meets the Maison's Manufacture collection.

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Technical Specifications

Collection: URBAN 

Model: BR-X5  Black TITANIUM

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Ref. BRX5R-BL-TI/STI  –  titanium

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Ref. BRX5R-BL-TI/SRB   –  rubber

Movement
Manufacture. Calibre BR-CAL.323.
Automatic mechanical.
Approximate power reserve of 70 hours.
Functions: Hours, minutes and seconds. 
Date window at 3 o'clock and power reserve indicator at 9 o'clock.
Case
41 mm wide. 12.80 mm thick.
Grade 2 microblasted titanium.
Screw-down crown.
Crown guard.
Sapphire case-back with oscillating weight
Water-resistance: 100 metres.
Crystal: Sapphire with anti-reflective coating
Dial
Black.
Matt black hour and minute hands filled with white Super-LumiNova®.
White sweep seconds
Strap
Titanium or black rubber.
Buckle:  folding. Microblasted titanium.

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🔴 Price: VAT for  9,900 € / CHF 9,000 / $ 9,900 💰

⚠️ Pre-order only, delivery in June

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