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Geneva, January 27 - 2022 – 10tenlabs® and Speake-Marin
proudly present the Academic Bunyan Limited Edition, a 10-pieces
limited edition curated exclusively for the Middle-East region and
strictly offered to a select group of collectors within the 10tenlabs
community.
Bunyan inspiration
The Bunyan Limited Edition derives its name from the Arabic word
“Bunyan” which means building and is inspired by the Middle-East’s
modern and contemporary architecture within the lustrous cities of
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Neom, Manama, Kuwait, Muscat and Doha.
Such
elements of cross-pollination are evident in the timepiece, as every
single timepiece constructed by Speake-Marin is inspired by the ethos of
modern architecture and design, reflected in contemporary design for
movements and dials, combined with a distinctive timeless case.
This lustrous timepiece embodies a lavish Salmon dial that evokes a celestial two-tone colour and the dial displays HINDU-ARABIC
numerals that stand out in the form of pillars engraved to hold the
solid foundation of the dial and inspires the solid building foundation
of modern architecture and contemporary design throughout modern cities
within the Middle-East region.
The edition celebrates Speake-Marin’s
partnership with 10tenlabs being its Middle-East official partner and
retailer. It is the first of many unique series to come.
Movement
The timepiece comes in a 38mm titanium case and is
powered by Speake-Marin’s In-House Calibre SMA-03.
The small seconds at
1:30 meets the Speake-Marin objective to break away from the watchmaking
codes: Speake-Marin is the only watchmaker who positions the small
seconds there.
Since 2015, Speake-Marin has initiated a movement strategy to fully
develop and assemble proprietary movements within its atelier in the
Neuchatel area, Switzerland. This new strategy gave birth to the “SMA”
collection, which includes Openworked, closed dials and Haute Horlogerie
movements. Firstly, Speake-Marin focused its efforts on Haute
Horlogerie 3 Hz movements (Minute Repeater and Double Tourbillon). Then,
Speake-Marin developed Hour Minutes Seconds 4Hz movements, which were
featured in the new One&Two design as an Openworked movement named
SMA01.
Movement In-house SMA03 Calibre, self-winding movement with integrated micro-rotor Power reserve: 52 hours Indications Hours, Minutes and Seconds Small seconds at 1:30 Dial Lavish Salmon dial with Hindu-Arabic numerals Case Piccadilly case in titanium Grade 5 Diameter:38 mm Front crystal sapphire treated with anti-reflective coating Open back crystal sapphire treated with anti-reflective coating and engraved with the 10tenlabs logotype in SuperLuminova® Water resistance: 3 bar (30 meters) Strap Black rubber bracelet and pin buckle
Limited Editionof 10 pieces
Price13’400.00 CHF (recommended retail price without taxes) ⚠️(Sold Out) 😞
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February 1 st, 2022: As a new lunar year starts today, Ulysse Nardin
is launching an ultra design version of one of its historical
astronomical complications the Moonstruck. With this Manufacture
Worldtimer housed in the geometrical case of a Blast, Ulysse Nardin
offers exceptional aficionados a new celestial odyssey, with reinvented
watchmaking mechanics reproducing as faithfully as possible the sun’s
visible trajectory and the lunar cycles.
Today, the Ulysse NardinBlast Moonstruck,
descended from the trilogy of astronomical watches created nearly forty
years ago by the master watchmaker Ludwig Oechslin proposes to set in
motion the primordial elements of the visible celestial mechanisms so
that everyone can gain a poetic understanding of the universe that
envelops us thanks to a contemporary and intuitive display.
“I am delighted that my watches and astronomical
clocks enable people to think about their position in the universe and
perhaps realize that we are not the centre of the world” – Ludwig Oechslin
The Blast Moonstruck reproduces the moon’s rotation, the apparent
movement of the sun around the globe as we observe it from Earth and a
tidal chart. Designed to make this dance between the sun and the moon
intelligible and intensely poetic, the geocentric display of the Blast
Moonstruck is easy to understand, even for a beginner with no knowledge
of astronomy.
Explanations
The starry firmament is a map for sailors, a playground for lovers
and the primordial calendar of all civilizations In this sparkling
ballet where, as seen from the ground, Earth always appears to be at the
centre of the universe, the sun and moon define the cycles of the days,
months and seasons.
It took the genius of astronomers to decipher this
waltz that keeps time so well. Ever since the Bronze Age, they have been
setting up observatories that enable them to devise calendars that are
accurate to the nearest day. Over the generations, they have built up
their grammar of the heavens.
“Why an astronomical watch? Because everything that
has regular cycles can be reproduced mechanically and so be read on a
dial Encapsulating time is the watchmaker’s art. Freeing it is that of
the philosopher In a way, the Blast Moonstruck encapsulates but above
all it liberates the mind. It’s that simple” – Ludwig Oechslin
The Blast Moonstruck, like all watches incorporating elaborated
astronomical information, seeks to be a miniaturized extrapolation of
the formidable turret clocks constructed towards the end of the Middle
Ages by towns of consequence. With an easily readable and understandable
display, it is the successor of the astronomical instruments of the
past.
Thanks to its sophisticated mechanism, it assures the display of
the time in a place chosen from among the 24 principal time zones that
the world has been using since the Washington Convention of 1884.
By
means of pushers located on the left-hand side of the case, it is
possible to put the main time display forward or back in leaps of one
hour to adjust to another time zone.
The Blast Moonstruck is also fitted with a moon phase complication of
precision, which, combined with the complication that allows real-time
following of the sun that gives it its brilliance, adds relief and life
to the dial.
This scientific representation of considerable oneiric
potential will serve the cause of great leaders in search of the
ultimate watch, but also that of sailors, with whom the Manufacture has
kept up an almost intimate relationship since its establishment in 1846.
They will know the full extent of the benefits this sober and discreet
display can bring them. From day to day, they will be able to predict
the dates of the spring tides at a glance by observing the sun and moon
aligning on their respective ellipses.
Man at the centre of the universe
Designed to follow in the footsteps of the fabulous trilogy devised
by Ludwig Oechslin from 1985 this watch puts aside the Copernican
representation of our solar system in favour of a geocentric approach
that is easier to read and understand for us others, the inhabitants of
Earth.
To accentuate this sensation of being at the heart of the universe
based on observation of the watch, the designers, together with the
master, Ludwig Oechslin chose to place the part of the northern
hemisphere seen from the North Pole at the centre of the instrument’s
sapphire crystal.
To increase the impact of the 3-D effect, the domed
crystal, with the landmasses micro-engraved on the inside, is set in the
protective sapphire crystal box encircled by an 18 ct rose gold ring
engraved with the 31 days of the month, which has for a pointer a small
triangle loaded with luminescent material.
World-time – Dual time
Underneath this three-dimensional structure glide hands of the
precision and contemporary design that the Blast collection is known
for. Their tapering form ensures instinctive reading, even in total
darkness, thanks to the presence of a generous quantity of luminescent
material down the middle. They indicate the local time, set to the time
of the time zone in which the watch’s owner lives.
But they can also be
set at will to any one of 24 time zones for which the names of
corresponding cities are reproduced on the fixed flange of the dial.
This can be done, forwards or backwards, by means of a sophisticated
mechanism very often used by Ulysse Nardin and activated by the two
rectangular pushers located on the left side of the case Simple and
intuitive, this world time function, is always useful for seasoned
travellers, comes together with an advanced astronomical complication.
Geocentric cosmic waltz
For Ludwig Oechslin, the 1980 s designer of astronomical wristwatches
among the most complex ever produced and for the Manufacture’s
development team, the Moonstruck was not intended to be an unnecessarily
complicated watch but a timepiece with a sober and efficient display,
capable of rendering the celestial mechanics comprehensible to everyone.
This 45 mm diameter astronomical watch in black ceramic and black DLC
treated titanium, worn on an alligator, velvet or rubber strap that is
also black, surely meets the expectations of this ambitious project.
In addition to the time display observable against a background of
the night sky portrayed by a disk made of aventurine, times around the
world can be read with the aid of the fixed flange bearing the names of
cities and the rotating disk on which a sun in relief and the time
indications appear at 12 o’clock.
The watch also has a Dual Time
mechanism. This allows changing of the main display in leaps of full
hours with the aid of the two pushers located on the left side of the
case middle to show the time in a given country on the dial while
keeping the initial time alongside the reference city.
This highly
efficient watch also possesses an aperture that showing the phases of
the moon in a realistic manner associates its course with a
three-dimensional representation of the sun located at 12 o’clock on the
time display for the reference time zone.
Precise Moon phases
The team in charge of the creation of the Moonstruck chose to provide
a representation of the moon phases in a round aperture located at the
apogee of an ellipse portraying its orbit, which is depicted as being in
the same ecliptic plane as Earth for practical reasons.
This aperture,
carried by a disk, is associated with an elaborate gear train. It causes
the moon phase indicator to make one complete rotation per day to
follow the course of the sun, the source of the moon’s brightness, and
also causes it to make a full circle of the dial in 29 days, 12 hours,
41 minutes and 9.3 seconds, representing the duration of a lunar month,
also known as a synodic rotation, which has an astronomical duration of
29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2.9 seconds.
To conserve its accuracy, the aperture showing the representation of
the moon retreats every 24 hours on its circle of revolution by an angle
corresponding, in degrees, to 1/29.53 of a lunar month to occupy a new
position in relation to the sun. At the same time, the representation
contained in this small mobile aperture also evolves to appear a little
brighter or dimmer in line with the lunar calendar.
When a portion of the moon is visible in it, the aperture conserves
an identical position in relation to the sun, here reproduced in relief
and made of bronzite for 24 hours.
This rare and precious mineral of the
pyroxenes family presents a golden surface punctuated with dark patches
intended to reproduce those observable with a telescope on the mantle
of the star around which, in reality, the earth gravitates.
The moon
phase display, described as being “of precision” because it will produce
a divergence of one day only after 40 years of working, is associated
with markings of the ages of the moon on the ellipsis intended to
represent the revolution of our natural satellite around the earth.
Appealing and original, the Blast Moonstruck remains nonetheless an
instrument that materializes a certain idea of our solar system
somewhere in the vastness of the cosmos.
A little
concentration when correctly positioning all the useful information,
from the reference city to the local time and date, suffices to ensure
that the complication built into the automatic Manufacture calibre UN
106 subsequently manages all the displays on its own as long as the
watch is worn.
And when it isn’t, it just needs to be put back in the
box supplied, which contains an automatic winder designed to take care
of the winding and keep its calendar information accurate.
Aventurine, nothing happens by chance
If it appears that the stars are randomly distributed in the cosmos,
the Blast Moonstruck’s subtle mineral black dial decoration with
glittering golden particles has not been left “to chance”…
Legend surrounding aventurine recounts that in the thirteenth
century, on the island of Murano in Venice, home to the famous
glassmakers, a craftsman accidentally, or “par aventure let some copper
filings fall into a pot of molten glass, so creating aventurine glass,
or avventurina in Italian, meaning “by chance”.
The aventurine effect of this man-made mineral gives it the sparkling
appearance that sailors often observe on the ocean’s surface in the
darkness of night.
This engineer was born at Gabicce Mare in the Italian Marches on
February 10, 1952. An academic, in 1976 he obtained a degree in
Archeology, Ancient History and Greek from the University of Basel.
Already working, in 1983 he was also awarded a PhD in Philosophy,
History of Research and Erudition (theoretical physics) and Astronomy,
this time from the University of Bern, and in 1995 a habilitation in
pre-industrial technical archaeology from the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Zürich (ETHZ). In parallel to his many studies, he
undertook a watchmaking apprenticeship and became a repairer in 1984 and
then a master watchmaker in 1993.
Having acquired all these skills, and like the humanists of the early
Renaissance, he managed to combine all these disciplines into creating
watch movements that included original astronomical complications or
incorporating innovative modes of operation. From 1983 to 1990, he
developed for Ulysse Nardin,
first, the Astrolabium Galileo Galilei watch and then two other pieces
to form a Trilogy that has remained in the annals of the profession as
the benchmark in terms of astronomical complications.
Passionate about mechanical efficiency, this author, the winner of
the Prix Gaïa in history in 1995 for his studies on monumental
astronomical clocks, created the Freak watch in 2001 incorporating
silicon into the mechanism for the first time. A lover of knowledge, he
was curator of the International Museum of La Chaux-du-Fonds from 2001
to 2014.
Simultaneously, this adventurous spirit, eager to breathe life
into the watchmaking principles which run through him, in 2006 created
his own watchmaking brand called Ochs und Junior.
Today, still bubbling
with ideas, this omniscient engineer, both a researcher and a
developer-designer, remains open to the elusive watchmaker whose
vibrancy, he con-tributes, here and there, to preserving.
Movement Manufacture calibre UN 106 Automatic winding Functions
Hours, minutes, date
Moon phase indication
Days of lunar month
Tidal coefficients
Worldtimer
Dual Time
Positions of the sun and moon around the globe
335 components / 42 jewels 4 Hz / 28,800 V/H Power reserve: 50 hours Case Black ceramic Black DLC titanium Sapphire crystal Case back: Open case back, sapphire crystal & black DLC titanium 5N Rose gold oscillating weight Diameter: 45mm Water-resistance 30m Strap Black alligator, velvet, or rubber SYNC folding clasp, black DLC titanium and pink gold
💰World prices 75’000 CHF / 79’100$ US / 71.300EUR
Limited production
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About Ulysse Nardin – Manufacture of Freedom.
Ulysse Nardin is the Pioneering Manufacture inspired by the sea and delivering innovative timepieces to free spirits.
Founded by Mr. Ulysse Nardin in 1846 and a House of the international luxury group Kering since November 2014, Ulysse Nardin
has written some of the most beautiful chapters in the history of Fine
Watchmaking. The brand owes its reputation to its ties with the nautical
world: its on-board marine chronometers are among the most reliable
ever designed and remain very popular with collectors all over the
world. A pioneer in cutting-edge technologies and the use of innovative
materials such as silicon, Ulysse Nardin is one of the few manufacturers
with the in-house expertise necessary to produce its own high-precision
components and movements. An exceptional level of horological
excellence has earned it a spot in the exclusive circle of Swiss
watchmaking: the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie. Ulysse Nardin is
taking action in two main ways to help conserve the oceans: reducing
marine plastic pollution and developing scientific knowledge in shark
conservation, animals which are its emblem. Today, from Le Locle and La
Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, Ulysse Nardin continues its quest for
watchmaking perfection around four pillars: Marine, Diver, Blast and
Freak. In 2021, Ulysse Nardin
is celebrating its 175th anniversary and is offering fans of
exploration a vertical odyssey, from the ocean depths to the upper
atmosphere. www.ulysse-nardin.com.
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