Thursday, April 7, 2016

ANGELUS – U40 Racing Tourbillon Skeleton

















ANGELUSURBAN U40 Racing Tourbillon Skeleton Titanium Limited Edition NEW

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A skeleton designed for ultimate performance: 
Angelus U40 Racing Tourbillon Skeleton

As part of its return to the forefront of cutting-edge Swiss watchmaking, ANGELUS is proud to announce the launch of the latest addition to its Urban Collection. The U40 Racing Tourbillon Skeleton is powered by the A-300 in-house tourbillon movement, which was developed from the bottom up to enhance its three-dimensionality and sculptural beauty while boosting its performance and shock-resistance.

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When the Angelus engineers set out to develop, design and manufacture the U40 Racing Tourbillon Skeleton, they went way beyond the confines of traditional watchmaking and took their cue from cutting-edge architecture and high-performance structural engineering, some of the world’s greatest supercars and aerospace-inspired technology. The result of their labours, which involved four years of intensive R&D, is the Angelus Tourbillon Skeleton A-300 calibre.

igned to be unique

Unlike most conventional skeletonized watches, which tend to be cut-out versions of existing models, the U40 was designed to be a skeleton from the start and is based on structural optimization. As Angelus Head of Innovation Sébastien Chaulmontet explains: “When you’re designing a watch as unusual as this one, it’s vital that you’re conscious from the start of all the points you need to take into consideration. In this case, one of the main challenges was to achieve the rigidity necessary when the skeletonized mechanism is intrinsically so flimsy.”

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The U40’s simplicity and elegance are set off to maximum advantage by a movement that has the appeal of a three-dimensional sculpture and is a celebration of consummate mechanical achievement. Much reduced in weight, it has maximum rigidity from its beam- type bridges and the fact that all the movement’s main elements, such as the wheels and barrel, are firmly secured between two plates. This design replaces the conventional main plate and bridges construction and massively increases the mechanical resistance of the movement. The watch’s rigidity is further enhanced by the Angelus in-house six-spoke design, which reinforces the wheel train and protects the skeletonized ratchet and barrel.

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With its core functions – hours, minutes and one-minute flying tourbillon – the A-300 calibre has 23 jewels, a Swiss lever escapement and measures just 4.3 millimetres in thickness and 32.8 millimetres in diameter. The 4 Hz / 28,800 vph frequency is a guarantee for high performance and precision.

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The ultra-slim movement has painstakingly executed contemporary haute horlogerie finishing with snailed black ADLC coating and chamfered edges. The design is enhanced by a skeletonized ratchet and barrel in the exclusive Angelus six-spoke design.























Avant-garde inside and out

The U40 Racing Tourbillon Skeleton is housed in a fabulous grade 5 titanium case that measures 42 millimetres in diameter and is only 10 millimetres thick. The design is highly complex and features a variety of curves and lines combined with alternating polished and satin-finished surfaces and a see-through back. Viewed from the side, the housing is stepped and tapers from top to bottom, the widest section accommodating the extra-large glass with the lower part narrowing to fit snugly on the wrist. The lugs are hollowed out to further increase lightness.

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Encompassing the dial is a multi-step bezel in black, dark grey and light grey with red imprints and a flange with an index and chapter rings. The hour and minute hands have red or white tips.

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This impressive timepiece is secured to the wearer’s wrist by a black rubber strap bearing a three-dimensional motif and Angelus logo and fastened by a titanium pin buckle.

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Technical Specifications

URBAN Collection
Model: U40 Racing Tourbillon Skeleton

Reference:  0TSAT.B01A.K007T Red hands
Reference:  0TSAT.B01B.K007T White hands

Features and Indications
Central hours and minutes, one-minute flying tourbillon 
Movement and Finishing
Calibre: A-300, mechanical hand-winding tourbillon movement
Complications: One-minute flying tourbillon
Jewels: 23
Diameter: 32.8 mm
Height: 4.30 mm
Power reserve: 60 hours
Frequency: 4 Hz / 28,800 vph
Balance wheel: Black, gold-treated
Escapement: Swiss lever
Regulated: Set to 5 positions
Gear train:  Wheels with exclusive Angelus six-spoke design to maximize rigidity
Main plate:  Snailed with chamfered edges, black ADLC coated
Upper bridges:  Snailed with chamfered edges, black ADLC coated
Tourbillon cage: Mirror-polished with chamfered and polished edges 
Dial
Chapter ring: Multi-step with indexes treated in black and dark grey with white and red prints
Hands: Skeletonized, polished facet and sandblasted with coloured tip central hour and minute hands
Case
Material: Grade 5 titanium with black coating on the case band
Diameter: 42 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Crown: Engraved with ANGELUS logo, 2 positions: 1 winding, 2 time setting
Back: Sapphire
Distance between lugs: 21 mm
Water resistance: 30 m / 100 ft / 3 atm
Crystal: Box sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating 
Strap and buckle
Material: Black rubber, with 3D motif, Angelus logo and titanium pin buckle
Length range: 120/75 mm
Width: 21/18 mmBuckle: Titanium, pin-buckle engraved with Angelus logo

Limitation and reference number
Reference:  0TSAT.B01A.K007T Red hands
Reference:  0TSAT.B01B.K007T White hands

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VOUTILAINEN – Vingt-8 Enamel


VOUTILAINENCurrent Vingt-8 Enamel Guilloché  NEW

Vingt-8 Guilloché Enamel

Today we are happy to share article about another new watch which should be present in Basel. At the moment we have only one photo that is shown above, but it’s more than enough to display the beauty of theVingt-8, new model from Voutilainen.

The Voutilainen Vingt-8 wristwatch perfectly encapsulates the philosophy of Kari Voutilainen. Its elegant and strong mechanism is housed in a stylish and robust case. The in-house movement of the Vingt-8 was designed, built, fabricated, finished and assembled in its entirety in Voutilainen workshops. The movement has a very large balance wheel manufactured in-house, allowing perfect regulation of the watch to within strict tolerances.

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In keeping with the most classic watchmaking traditions, all the watches emerging from the Voutilainen workshops are designed, built, produced, finished and assembled in-house. This Manufacture is equipped with a ‘natural’ escapement built by Kari Voutilainen. It features a balance-spring with a Breguet overcoil and a Grossmann inner curve.

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What’s unusual here? Well, this watch is a truly work of art among watches, and let me explain why. The escapement makes the movement very special; this is the first watch to have two escapement wheels in such a configuration. The escapement wheels give a direct impulse to the balance through the impulse roller/jewel. This escapement is extremely efficient and requires much less energy than traditional lever escapements, offering benefits in terms of longevity and stability in day-to-day use.

The balance-wheel bridge is sublimely elegant, offering an unimpeded view of the escapement and balance. It also allows the enthusiast to admire the synchronized movements of the escapement wheels. Of course, it’s not only the movement, but also finish, which make new watch special.

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The surfaces of pinions and wheels are completely flat and highly polished to within exceptionally uniform tolerances. All finishing work on the main plate and bridges is done by hand to achieve the highest possible levels of surface finish. Screws and all steel parts are also finished and polished by hand. Dial of the watch is made entirely in Voutilainen workshop.

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Dial is engine turned by hand. In center, there is transparent enamel, highly polished to be able to admire reflects of guilloche work. Hands are made from gold and steel, due to special treatment they have elegant and visible metallic color.

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The wheels and pinions are perfectly polished, the bridges and mainplate are in German silver and hand-finished to superlative levels. All the steel parts are polished and hand-chamfered. This refined approach is also reflected on the dial of the Vingt-8. A solid silver base is guilloché-worked with a trompe l’oeil motif. Two zones appear to be magnified by an optical illusion created by a subtle variation in the guilloché pattern.

The central part is coated with Grand Feu enamel

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Technical Characteristics

Model: Voutilainen Vingt-8 Enamel

Movement
Mechanical hand-wound, 21 jewels, 18,000 vib/h
Proprietary direct-impulse escapement with two escapement wheels
Large balance-wheel with double-coil balance-spring
German silver mainplate and bridges, gold wheels
65-hour power reserve.
Conception, design, manufacture, finishing and assembly carried out in Voutilainen workshop.
Movement size
ø 30.00 mm x 5.60 mm
Balance
Free sprung balance wheel (with Brequet/Grossman balance sprint, beating at 18,000 vph),
with rose gold inertia blocks.
Diameter of balance wheel is 13.60mm, wheel in rose gold.
Jewels: 21
Hands: Polished Gold and steel
Functions
Hours, minutes, small seconds.
Dial
Solid silver and gold.
Center part is covered with transparent enamel.
Highly polished Guilloché enamelled central part with red & blue grand feu enamel.
Small seconds, gold applied numerals and gold hands.
Additionals
18K pink or white gold, 18-carat gold crown.
Case size: ø 39.00 mm  x 11.5mm
Sapphire crystals front and rear, glare-proof treatment on front.
Hand-stitched leather, with 18-carat white gold buckle

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Year: 2016
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Kari Voutilainen
Voutilainen Horlogerie d’Art
Comblémine 2
2112 Môtiers | Switzerland
Tél +41 32 861 4832
Fax +41 32 861 4833
voutilainen@voutilainen.ch
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