EDOX – Chronorally Sauber F1® Team “25th Anniversary” Edition

EDOX – Chronorally Sauber F1® Team “25th Anniversary” Limited Edition

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SURVIVING IN THE THRILLING, 

HIGH-OCTANE WORLD OF FORMULA ONE® MOTOR RACING 

IS ONE THING; THRIVING ANOTHER.

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For 25 years, Switzerland’s Sauber F1® Team has been matching it with the best of the best in the most demanding motor sport of them all, thanks to the vision of founder Peter Sauber and the dedication, expertise and passion of its support team and drivers.

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There’s a fourth factor critical to F1® success - absolute precision timing. Which is why boutique Swiss watchmaker Edox is the perfect partner for the Sauber F1® Team.

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Now race fans can mark Sauber’s quarter of a century of racing excellence in F1® with this new, limited edition Chronorally timepiece from Edox, forged from race-tough titanium and like the materials used in the Sauber F1® Team’s dream machines, is ultra-tough but lightweight.

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The oversize chronograph pusher, speed scale on the inner bezel (tachymeter) and slick “tyre tread” rubber strap reinforce the F1® pedigree of the 48 mm watch, which is also water-resistant to 100 m and comes in a special presentation box.

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The Edox Chronorally Sauber F1® Team 25th Anniversary Limited Edition’s dial sports a bold logo marking it’s 25 years in a sport (it is the fourth-oldest team competing in F1®) where success demands perfection at every turn - the same ethos that Edox applies to its mission of producing the best value for money timepieces on the market.

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Edox has been creating exceptional timepieces since 1884 and is the Premium Partner of the Sauber F1® Team and its drivers Marcus Ericsson and Pascal Wehrlein.

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TECHNICAL FEATURES

Model: Chronorally Sauber F1® Team “25th Anniversary” Edition
Ref. 38001 TINN2 BUB25

Movement
Reliable high-tech Swiss-made metal movement,
gold and nickel plated with extended lifetime battery.
Edox caliber 38.
Case   
Diameter: Ø 48 mm titanium, golden oversized pusher,
special Sauber F1® Team side plate,  limited numbering on the caseback.
Screw-down crown
Functions
Display of hours, minutes,
day and date, chronograph, split-time.
Dial
Blue, which and golden details,
official 25 years anniversary logo of the Sauber F1® Team, tachymeter scale.
Water resistance 100 meters
Sapphire crystal Scratch-resistant and anti-reflective.
Strap
Blue rubber strap with tyre imprint and Edox buckle


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VACHERON CONSTANTIN – «La Création du Monde» Astronomical Clock

VACHERON CONSTANTIN – «La Création du Monde» Astronomical Clock

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An exceptional astronomical clock exhibited at the Louvre Museum, “La Création du Monde”, restored thanks to the patronage of the watch Manufacture Vacheron Constantin

Now restored, “La Création du Monde” belonging to the collection of the French National Châteaux de Versailles and Trianon Museum and officially deposited at the Louvre Museum, is exhibited in the former library of the Villemaré‐Dangé mansion, at the first floor of the Sully sector.

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As patron of this aesthetic and functional restoration process, Vacheron Constantin is proud that all the beauty and ingenuity of this exceptional clock, reviving after three years of work.

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One of the secrets of the success and longevity of the Manufacture Vacheron Constantin lies in its constant obsession with transmitting, advancing and perpetuating its expertise and its knowledge of horology. An obsession that now enables it to restore all the watches produced since its founding in 1755, while maintaining complete respect for the watchmaking techniques and professional ethics relating to all the watches produced since its founding in 1755. Moreover, in keeping with its motto “Do better if possible, and that is always possible”, the Maison is innovating through a progress‐driven approach by drawing inspiration form its own creations and from those of the grand masters of watchmaking history.

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This philosophy has given rise to a desire to contribute to restoring masterpieces of the worldwide watchmaking heritage that have inspired and will continue to inspire generations of watchmakers. It was in the Louvre museum that Vacheron Constantin discovered the “La Création du Monde” clock.

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The Manufacture expressed its desire to become the patron of the aesthetic and functional restoration of this masterpiece in partnership with the Louvre museum, who has mandated the Atelier Chronos, specialising in the restoration and conservation of watches and clocks for the French museums grouped under the “Musées de France” label.

An artwork with a rich history

Created in the mid‐18th century, at the expense and at the request of Joseph‐François Dupleix de Bacquencourt, then General Governor of the seaports in India, “La Création du Monde” was a clock intended as a diplomatic to Salabetzingue, Nabab of the province of Deccan.

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First presented in February 1754 at the court of King Louis XV of France in Versailles, the clock was sent by ship to Pondichery on August 25th that same year, accompanied by the horologist Dutertre. Meanwhile Dupleix had been dismissed from his post by King Louis XV and returned to France in October 1754. The clock was no longer to serve as a diplomatic gift. The clockmaker and the clock were shipped back from Pondichery on September 4th 1755.

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Restoration and renaissance of the tangible heritage

After lengthy restoration work, the exceptional “La Création du Monde” clock is once again ticking smoothly. Crafted by engineer and mechanic Claude‐Siméon Passemant, “La Création du Monde”, which was only partially operational, is a work of remarkable technical complexity and rare aesthetic virtuosity combining watchmaking techniques and artistic crafts. A watchmaker, bronze‐smelter, engraver, chiseller and other artisans all applied their talent to this work whose allegorical form depicting the four fundamental elements (Air, Earth, Water and Fire) imposed exceptional constraints on watchmakers.

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The restoration of this piece by a specialised workshop not only made it possible to bring up to standard the various mechanisms and complications required to ensure its smooth operation, but also made it possible to conduct historical research on the history of this clock and the watchmaking of the era.

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The three years of restoration were punctuated by various phases in the process. The restoration of the mechanisms and their liaison elements gave rise to the most challenges and discoveries. From the striking mechanism to the repair of the running equation of time, as well as the workings of the globe, the moon phases of the planetarium, each aspect of the endeavour called for hours of work, calculation and modelling in order to bring this high‐precision clock back to life.

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The restoration workshop – in line with professional ethics, in accordance with the conservation and restoration policy of the Louvre Museum, and with the support of Vacheron Constantin and its determination to oversee “the best possible restoration work” – conducted an entirely reversible conservation‐restoration process.

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This means that each newly made component can be removed and replaced by the one that had been previously damaged and/or degraded; or simply removed and left missing as it was prior to the intervention. None of the materials used are liable to damage the work over the medium or long term, and all are deliberately identifiable and recognisable by their markings, shapes or materials.

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TECHNICAL DATA

Model: «La Création du Monde» Clock

•     Hours, minutes and seconds of mean time;
•     True time or solar time in running equation of time mode, meaning indicated by a hand that follows or moves past mean time;
•     Annual calendar of the days and months, engraved on the equation of time cam;
•     Chime of the hours and half‐hours of true time;
•     Phase and age of the moon in the form of a rotating globe;
•     Depiction of the heliocentric system, of the first six planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) with elliptical variation of the rotation speed according to passages through aphelion and perihelion;
•     Indication on the planetarium dial of the line of orbital nodes, indication of the vernal point and of the Earth’s solstices;
•     Duration of day and night on the surface of the rotating globe in 24 hours for all countries on Earth;
•     Pivoting in the course of the year of the poles’ axis, following the seasons and serving to indicate the point of true noon on the globe, as well as reproducing the variable durations of day and night;
•     15‐day power reserve for the mechanism (spring‐driven striking mechanism and weight‐driven timekeeping mechanism);
•     Auxiliary driving force to accompany the rotation of the globe;
•     Balance wheel beating the seconds;
•     Graham lever escapement.

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