The Valbray story starts in 2009 when two passionate people, an engineer and a designer, crossed paths…
Young and talented, Côme de Valbray and Olga Corsini, shared a rich experience in the luxury industry, a profound interest for the watchmaking world and the dream to propose their creativity in complete independence. At that time, Olga was working on a collection for a High Jewelry Parisian Maison and Côme was responsible for fabrication processes at a Swiss high-end watch manufacturer. Passionate about photography and optics, subjects of his end-of-studies thesis, Côme saw one day Olga’s designs inspired by spiral sea-shells and found a resemblance to a diaphragm system. The idea to create timepieces with a modern and timeless design based on this complex mechanism crossed his mind.
One year later, the first prototype was realized and the feasibility of the aperture mechanism was validated.
A meeting of chance and the tenacity of a research gave life to Valbray…
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Côme de VALBRAY & Olga CORSINI
VALBRAY - OCULUS V.01 ANGEL LIMITED EDITION
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Technical details
- REFERENCE
- VR01 H
- CASE
- Titanium grade 5 and 60 brilliant-cut diamonds in paving totaling 1.5 ct exactly
- WATER RESISTANT
- 5 ATM
- FUNCTIONS
- Double display: chronograph / hours, minutes
- MOVEMENT
- Reference: V.CA1 Mechanical and automatic chronographHand decoration and finishingRotor: Redesigned tri-material rotor winding on ceramic ball bearingFrequency: 28’800 alt/h (4Hz)25 functional jewels44 hours of power reserve
- DIAPHRAGM
- 16 blades with a “golden powder” multilayer
- DIAL
- Multilayered
- SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL
- Bezel: double side hard antireflective coatingBack: double side hard antireflective coating
- STRAP
- White gloss alligator with white stitchingPatented deployant buckle with a thin design
- LIMITED EDITION
- 25 pieces
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VALBRAY - OCULUS V.01 DEVIL LIMITED EDITION
The uniqueness of
the Valbray System
The revolutionary
Valbray’s obturator system, that recalls the intensity diaphragm on
photography, is a pure example of contemporary micro-mechanical masterpiece,
applied on the watchmaking tradition.
Valbray has
invested more than two exiting years of teamwork to realize it, tackling
several challenges. Finally Valbray did it and registered the patent in
2010.
The system is
composed by 16 extra thin blades, entirely fitted in a rotating bezel of
only 45 mm in diameter and 7 mm wide.
They open and
close slowly sliding one over the other on a constant and
regularly circular shape.
On the maximum
open position of the bezel, the blades completely disappear, leaving an under
and different dial of 30 mm appear.
The bezel is waterproof and
doesn’t have any sign to operate the system (no pusher, no bar).
The system
is thoroughly hidden and independent of the watch movement and it is
manually actionable by turning the bezel with the fingers.
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Technical details
- REFERENCE
- VR01 G
- CASE
- Titanium grade 5 with DLC coating
- WATER RESISTANT
- 5 ATM
- FUNCTIONS
- Double display: chronograph / hours, minutes
- MOVEMENT
- Reference: V.CA1Mechanical and automatic chronographHand decoration and finishingRotor: Redesigned tri-material rotor winding on ceramic ball bearingFrequency: 28’800 alt/h (4Hz)25 functional jewels44 hours of power reserve
- DIAPHRAGM
- 16 lamelles à traitement multicouche noir
- DIAL
- Multilayered on a honeycomb grid
- SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL
- Bezel: double side hard antireflective coatingBack: double side hard antireflective coating
- STRAP
- Black mat alligator with red stitchingPatented deployant buckle with a thin design
- LIMITED EDITION
- 25 pieces
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