ARNOLD & SON – MÉTIERS D'ARTS Ultrathin Tourbillon Koi Edition

ARNOLD & SON – MÉTIERS D'ARTS Ultrathin Tourbillon Koi Unique Edition - 2020

A Tourbillon Koi in Still Waters

Arnold & Son presents the Ultrathin Tourbillon Koi, a delicate unique piece that blends fine watchmaking and the artistic crafts. This red-gold timepiece with a mother-of-pearl dial highlights hand-painted carps and sculpted lotuses surround a flying tourbillon.

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Delicately placed on a mother-of-pearl dial, hand-painted carp and sculpted lotuses surround a flying tourbillon. Arnold & Son presents the Ultrathin Tourbillon Koi, a delicate unique piece that blends fine watchmaking and the artistic crafts.

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Highlighting the brand’s tradition of bespoke watch creations, this creation showcases a broad spectrum of skills within a red-gold case measuring 8.34 mm thick.

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Arnold & Son offers the customers the chance to personalise the watches. Customers can apply substantial changes, making a case, movement or dial unique through engraving, gem-setting, miniature painting or sculpted elements. The brand’s iconic Ultrathin Tourbillon watch features a spacious dial surface with its off-centred dial at 12 o’clock.

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Beneath the surface

This arrangement provides an empty canvas that can be filled with whatever the customer desires. Koi are a popular theme in traditional Japanese art and inspire tranquility. Above and beyond their beauty and serenity, they are a symbol of perseverance in the face of adversity.

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A Tancho carp, recognisable thanks to the large red mark on its head, swims on the right-hand side of the dial. Peering out from beneath the sleeve, it is the first to be seen when checking the time. The scene continues with another koi in shades of white and orange gracing the other side of the dial.

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A pond in full bloom

Above these ornamental carp float three lotus blossoms. The petals are cut from silver and shaped, before being engraved, polished and painted in dazzling white lacquer. Each flower’s pistil is formed separately using the same techniques, then the two parts are combined

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The carp and lotus leaves, meanwhile, are painted by hand using incredibly thin brushes that allow a wealth of details to be added, such as scales, barbels and striped fins. The base of the dial is made from blue-toned mother-of-pearl, its iridescent shimmer evoking the water in which this charming scene unfolds.

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A ripple of opportunity

The Ultrathin Tourbillon Koi watch has a 42mm red gold case and it houses the calibre A&S8200, an ultra-thin haute horlogerie movement with a thickness of 2.97 mm. Despite its compact size, this manually wound movement delivers an exceptional 90-hour power reserve.

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The movement displays the hours and minutes in an off-centred dial at 12 o’clock. At 6 o’clock, an aperture reveals a tourbillon whose construction is special in more ways than one.

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Movement in the water

First and foremost, the tourbillon is a ‘flying’ variety, meaning that it only has a lower carriage bridge. Since the top is not held in place, a few precious millimetres of height can be saved, thus freeing up the view of this timekeeping mechanism. The balance, meanwhile, is off-centred from the carriage axis, creating a dynamic visual impression as the tourbillon rotates.

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Another distinctive feature is the balance bridge, which is domed and extends slightly from the dial, ensuring that the rest of the movement is unaffected by the total height. This, in turn, makes the tourbillon’s rotation all the more spectacular.

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The effect is further accentuated by the skeletonised main plate located just beneath the tourbillon. The resulting transparency creates an ethereal impression consistent with the refined theme of the Ultrathin Tourbillon Koi. Finally, this manually wound movement features an exceptional 90-hour power reserve – another technical signature of the House. The watch is worn on a hand-stitched alligator leather strap with an 18-carat red gold (5N) pin buckle.

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Technical Specifications

MÉTIERS D'ARTS Collection

Model   MÉTIERS D'ARTS Ultrathin Tourbillon Koi Edition

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Reference: 1UTAR.M99A.

Movement
Calibre A&S8200, 
1 minute flying tourbillon, manual windingFrequency: 3 Hz / 21,600 vph
Jewels: 29
Diameter: 32.00 mm
Thickness: 2.97 mm
Power reserve: 90 hours
Finishes
Main plate: Côtes de Genève stripes radiating from the centre and hand-engraved tourbillon bridge
Bridges: polished and chamfered by hand
Wheels: circular satin-finished
Screws: blued and chamfered, mirror-polished heads
Tourbillon carriage: satin-finished, polished and chamfered
Functions
Hours, minutes and flying tourbillon
Dial
Miniature painting on black mother-of-pearl
Silver lotus flowers, engraved and painted by hand
Case
18-carat red gold (5N) case
Diameter: 42.00 mm
Thickness: 12.23 mm (with crystal)
Crystal: Domed sapphire with an anti-reflective coating on both sides
Case back: Sapphire crystal
Water-resistance: 30 metres / 100 feet
Strap
Hand-stitched alligator leather strap
Pin buckle in 18-carat red gold (5N)

Edition - Unique piece

Guide price  CHF 89,000 excl. tax (subject to change)

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ZENITH – DEFY EL Primero 21 PINK Edition

ZENITH – DEFY 21 EL Primero Chronograph PINK Edition  

PINK FOR SUMMER, PINK FOR HOPE: 

ZENITH TAKES ON A WORTHY CAUSE 

FOR WOMEN WITH THE DEFY 21 PINK EDITION

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2020 is a milestone year for Zenith in its creation of watches tailored exclusively for women. Never afraid to adopt colours rarely explored in watchmaking, Zenith has created its most flamboyantly feminine watch to date, the DEFY 21 Pink Edition featuring the world’s first pink-treated movement. In association with Pink Ribbon Switzerland, Zenith commits to supporting a cause that affects countless women around the world.

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Fitting of the DEFY 21’s lightning-fast 1/100th of a second chronograph movement and edgy design, Zenith has created for the first time ever in a mechanical watch an astonishingly pink PVD treated movement in the DEFY 21 Pink Edition, which is sure to make an audacious statement this summer.

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Its rose gold case with sharp facets exudes out a different kind of brilliance, with 288 white diamonds of varying sizes perfectly set into the case. The rose gold bezel adds another layer of vivid sparkle, with 44 scintillating baguette-cut pink sapphire stones. Echoing the dashing tones of the watch’s exterior, the open black and golden dial reveals the striking metallic pink treated movement, which extends from the dial side right through to the star-shaped oscillating rotor on the back.

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Recognizing the need to spread positivity and hope to countless women around the world who are battling breast cancer, pink takes on another meaning with the DEFY 21 Pink Edition. The Pink Ribbon is the international symbol for those who have been affected by the indiscriminate disease, helping to spread awareness and support for those who need it.

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Zenith is proud to announce that it will be joining the global Pink Ribbon awareness movement, where a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the DEFY 21 Pink Edition will be donated to Pink Ribbon Switzerland. Zenith will also take part in the 10th Anniversary Pink Ribbon Switzerland Music Gala as an auction partner, to be held on 26th September at the Dolder Grand in Zurich.

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To lend its support and help raise funds, Zenith will offer a unique execution of this watch, the DEFY 21 “Pink Ribbon” edition, for the charity auction, where all proceeds from the auction sale will finance the VISION I project of SAKK (The Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research), a non-profit organization which has been conducting clinical trials in oncology since 1965 and promises to provide breast cancer patients gentler and better care.

The DEFY 21 Pink Edition will be available at Zenith boutiques and retailers worldwide as of August 2020.

ZENITH: TIME TO REACH YOUR STAR

Zenith exists to inspire individuals to pursue their dreams and make them come true – against all odds. Since its establishment in 1865, Zenith became the first watch manufacture in the modern sense of the term, and its watches have accompanied extraordinary figures that dreamt big and strived to achieve the impossible – from Louis Blériot’s history-making flight across the English Channel to Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting stratospheric free-fall jump.

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With innovation as its guiding star, Zenith features exceptional in-house developed and manufactured movements in all its watches. From the first automatic chronograph, the El Primero, to the fastest chronograph with a 1/100th of a second precision, the El Primero 21, as well as the Inventor that reinvents the regulating organ by replacing the 30+ components with a single monolithic element, the manufacture is always pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

Zenith has been shaping the future of Swiss watchmaking since 1865, accompanying those who dare to challenge themselves and break barriers. The time to reach your star is now.

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TECHNICAL DETAILS

Collection: DEFY
 
Model:  DEFY 21 EL Primero PINK Edition

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Reference: 22.9004.9004/73.R598


Key points:
⦁    World premiere with a Pink PVD treated movement.
⦁    Pink sapphires on the bezel : ~2.12 cts.
⦁    Exclusive dynamic signature of one rotation per second.
⦁    1 escapement for the Watch (36,000 VpH - 5 Hz);
⦁    1 escapement for the Chronograph (360,000 VpH - 50 Hz).
⦁    TIME LAB Chronometer certified.
MOVEMENT 
Calibre: El Primero 9004 automatic
- Pink colored main plate on movement + Special pink colored oscillating weight with satined finishings
Frequency 36,000 VpH (5 Hz)
Power reserve min. 50 hours
FUNCTIONS:
1/100th of a second chronograph functions.
Chronograph power-reserve indication at 12 o'clock.
Hours and minutes in the centre.
Small seconds at 9 o'clock,
Central chronograph hand, 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock, 60-second counter at 6 o'clock
CASE
Material: Rose gold set with sapphires & diamonds
Case 💎288 VVS brilliant-cut diamonds
Carats ~5.00 cts
Bezel 💎44 VVS pink baguette-cut sapphire
Water resistance: 3 ATM
DIAL
Openworked with two different-coloured counters
Hour markers: gold-plated, faceted and coated with Super-LumiNova®SLN C1
Hands : gold-plated, faceted and coated with Super-LumiNova®SLN C1
Bracelet & Buckle
Black Rubber with Pink alligator leather coating.
Gold & Titanium double folding clasp.

Price   64.900 CHF

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