Franck Dubarry – GMT Fileteado Titanium & Gold

Franck Dubarry – GMT Fileteado Titanium & Gold

THE NEW COLLECTION
REVOLUTION: AN INVITATION TO TRAVEL!

GENEVA: Franck Dubarry launches its Revolution collection on the market, which made Baselworld 2016 sit up and take notice when the brand first presented it. An audacious collection of dashing creativity, which affirms the designer’s desire to bring a new perspective to the watchmaking industry

A TRIBUTE TO GLOBETROTTERS

As a great traveler himself, the brand’s eponymous designer, Franck Dubarry, naturally wanted to develop an automatic GMT watch. He imagined his timepieces as true guides, able to satisfy even the most pragmatic traveler’s requirements.

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This Hommes et Femmes collection stamps its personality on the fine lineage of GMT watches, breaking classical conventions of a 12-hour revolution with a 24-hour dial that highlights two time zones.

INSPIRED BY ARGENTINIAN STREET ART

His passion for different cultures draws Franck Dubarry to make regular stops in Argentina, where he feels a strong connection with the country’s art especially Fileteado Porteño, born in the back streets of Buenos Aires in the early 20th century when it was brought over by immigrants from Italy. The whole decorative repertoire and emblematic style of this artistic movement are manifest in the Revolution design. One glance is all it takes to be smitten. First to catch the eye is its novel case, with curved lines and spiraling scrolls engraved like a luminous filigree pattern.

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The Revolution Gold model, with its rose gold case encircled with a diamond-studded bezel, offers sheer delicacy and femininity. Another version plays on more masculine aesthetics - a carbon bezel and an anthracite gray background to the dial. The dial (white or gray) is decorated with colorful arabesques. Flowers, hearts and vanitas symbols intertwine to create an original, hand-painted design. Jaunty colors inject a sense of freshness.

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The Revolution Titanium model boasts a Grade 5 Titanium case. The dial’s background is hammered like a silver coin to produce striking contrasts and reveal unexpected plays of light.

AN ODE TO LIBERTY

Franck Dubarry reinterprets watchmaking design in the light of the philosophical values handed down to him from the French Revolution, to create a contemporary designer object. Every model features different shades in a harmonious composite, so it has a character all its own.

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From the resolutely rock’n’roll attitude of the Revolution Titanium to the radiant softness of the Revolution Gold, the myriad styles are testimony of the brand’s creative talent. The back of the movement bears an engraving of the brand’s motto, “Libertas, Intrepidus, Honor”-an ode to creative freedom, liberty, and the renewal of art.

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The lugs have been carefully worked to ensure ergonomic comfort. Extending from the lugs, an Elastogator strap affords comfort and practicality, while bringing a finishing touch of elegance.

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Technical details

Reference: REV0501

Revolution Gold: Rose Gold 5N case, available in a variation 

with white dial background and diamond-set bezel, or a variation with anthracite gray dial background and anthracite gray carbon bezel.

Reference: REV0401

Revolution Titanium: Grade 5 Titanium case, 

black carbon bezel, dial back-ground hammered in the manner of a metal coin.

Movement

Caliber: 2893-2 Automatic GMT Movement   

Swiss made: High end Swiss watchmaking

Function: Hour Minute Date 24 hr GMT

Dial

Fileteado design, hand-painted 24 hr inner ring

Date window at 3h position

Case

Case measurements: 43x50mm

Material: 18K Rose Gold 5N diamond or Grade 5 Titanium carbon bezel

Fileteado engraving pattern

Bezel: Carbon fiber bezel with black soft touch bezel and crown inserts

Water resistance: 100 m

Strap

Elastogator® Genuine Leather & Rubber

Warranty: 2 years

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MIDO – MULTIFORT Datometer Edition

MIDO – MULTIFORT Datometer 40mm Limited Edition

A piece of history on your wrist

Mido is bringing the past into the present with the new Multifort Datometer. The brand is celebrating its 100th anniversary by revisiting one of its flagship models, first launched in 1939. The 2018 version borrows the original’s essential features while bringing it firmly up to date. Endowed with a superb polished and satin-finished steel case with rose PVD treatment, the Multifort Datometer reveals a silvered, finely sandblasted dial, decorated with black transfers, recreating the 1939 design almost identically. The characteristic detail of this rare and timeless model is the date, indicated by a hand with a red varnished tip. Beneath its vintage exterior, this timepiece houses an automatic movement with exclusive date indicator based on its Caliber 80, which offers up to 80 hours of power reserve. Produced as a limited edition of 1,918 pieces to echo the year in which Mido was founded, the Multifort Datometer will win over anyone looking to wear a piece of watchmaking history on their wrist.


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Launched in 1934, two years after the Sydney Harbour Bridge was completed, the Multifort collection shares some of the structure’s remarkable characteristics – a perfect blend of functionality and beauty. A truth that has stood the test of time, as Mido celebrated the 80th anniversary of Multifort production in 2014, making this emblematic collection one of the longest-produced series in the history of Swiss watchmaking.

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To celebrate its 100th anniversary, Mido is revisiting some of its iconic models and bringing them up to date. A timepiece with an assertive masculine character, the 2018 version of the Multifort Datometer takes inspiration from the eponymous model launched in 1939.

It adopts most of the aesthetic codes responsible for its original success while making it a truly modern creation. Its polished and satin-finished steel case with rose PVD treatment has been enlarged to give a diameter of 40 mm. A box sapphire crystal enables the wearer to admire its magnificent dial, almost identical to that of the 1939 model. Silvered and finely sandblasted, it is decorated with black transfers. But it is unquestionably the date display that gives the Multifort Datometer its unique character: this is indicated by a 5N rose hand with a red varnished tip. The indexes and the faceted hour and minute hands are in rose PVD. Meanwhile the seconds hand features shiny black varnish. Several dots of black Super-LumiNova® on the numerals and the hour and minute hands ensure perfect legibility at night.

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Beneath its vintage exterior, the Multifort Datometer houses the best technology currently available. Exclusively created for Mido, the Caliber 80 is a next-generation automatic movement which offers up to 80 hours of power reserve. Its transparent case back enables this finely decorated sophisticated movement to be admired, with its oscillating weight adorned with Geneva stripes and the Mido logo. The Multifort Datometer is fitted with a brown natural-looking genuine leather strap with a rose PVD-treated stainless steel pin buckle. It is water-resistant up to a pressure of 5 bars (50 m /165 ft).

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Limited to 1,918 pieces, a nod to the year in which Mido was founded, the Multifort Datometer is an exceptional timepiece that belongs on the wrist of any lover of rare and timeless watchmaking creations.

An exclusive version of this model will be released this autumn: a gold limited edition of 100 pieces.

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TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Model: MULTIFORT Datometer Edition 40mm


Ref: M036.407.36.031.00

Movement   
Automatic Mido Caliber 80 (ETA C07.611 base) ,
11½’’’, Ø25.60 mm, height: 4.74 mm, 25 jewels, 21,600 A/H,
NIVACHOC shock-absorber, NIVAFLEX NM mainspring,
ELINCHRON II balance-spring.
Finely decorated Elaboré-grade movement,
oscillating weight decorated with Geneva stripes and Mido logo.
Functions  
HMS and Date indicated by a hand.
Adjusted on 3 different positions for high accuracy.
Up to 80 hours of power reserve.
Dial
Silvered, finely sandblasted, black transfer,
rose PVD indexes, black Super-LumiNova® on the numerals.
Hands
Faceted rose PVD hour and minute hands with black Super-LumiNova®,
shiny black varnished seconds hand and 5N rose date hand with red varnished tip.
Case
Polished and satin-finished 316L stainless steel with rose PVD treatment,
Ø 40 mm, 3 pieces, box sapphire crystal and screwed case back,
finely decorated Elaboré-grade movement visible through the transparent case back,
engraved serial number, engraved limited edition of up to 1,918 pieces.
Water-resistant to a pressure of 5 bar (50 m / 165 ft).
Strap
Brown natural-looking genuine calfskin,
stainless steel pin buckle with rose PVD treatment.

Limited to 1,918 pieces

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