ROGER DUBUIS – EXCALIBUR Spider Huracan Sterrato MB Edition

 

ROGER DUBUIS – EXCALIBUR Spider Huracán MT Sterrato Black Ttitanium/ Carbon 45 mm Edition 2022

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DARE TO LIVE OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
NEW EXCALIBUR SPIDER HURACÁN STERRATO

Roaring into life at Art Basel Miami, the Excalibur Spider Huracán Sterrato MB is set to debut alongside the long-awaited Huracán supercar itself. Maximum traction. Peak acceleration.

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This is an invitation to steer off road for life’s biggest and boldest thrills.

POWERED BY RAGING MECHANICS

The Excalibur Spider Huracán Sterrato MB timepiece is powered by the RD630 calibre. This horological ‘engine’ is designed specifically to reflect the hexagonal air intakes of Lamborghini Squadra Corse racing cars, just as the symmetry of the twin barrels offers a further nod to the Huracán collection and the multi-fuel tanks of its supercars. 

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 Always adopting an unconventional approach, the Maison’s watchmakers have tilted the balance wheel to a 12° angle to achieve peak performance. Found at 12 o'clock to echo the Sterrato rev counter, its flipped positioning provides a better view for the wearer, who can now fully enjoy its spiral oscillations - the beating heart of the watch. Completing these impressive mechanics, the date is featured at 6 o’clock.

EXCALIBUR SPIDER HURACÁN STERRATO MB
DARE TO LIVE OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

No route. No plan. Just the pulse-racing possibility of the unknown journey ahead. This is the mindset of trailblazers, those willing to veer off the beaten track at any given moment. Now, even more fearless adventures are possible as the latest creation from the long-lasting collaboration between Roger Dubuis and Lamborghini Squadra Corse is unveiled with the Excalibur Spider Huracán Sterrato Monobalancier (MB).

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A prime example of what happens when incredible watchmakers meet visionary engineers, the heart-pumping timepiece is infused with the horological excellence of the Maison and the spirit of the Huracán Sterrato, an unconventional car.

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Roaring into life at Art Basel Miami, the Excalibur Spider Huracán Sterrato MB is set to debut alongside the long-awaited Huracán supercar itself. Maximum traction. Peak acceleration.

This is an invitation to steer off road for life’s biggest and boldest thrills.

POWERED BY RAGING MECHANICS

The Excalibur Spider Huracán Sterrato MB timepiece is powered by the RD630 calibre. This horological ‘engine’ is designed specifically to reflect the hexagonal air intakes of Lamborghini Squadra Corse racing cars, just as the symmetry of the twin barrels offers a further nod to the Huracán collection and the multi-fuel tanks of its supercars. 

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Always adopting an unconventional approach, the Maison’s watchmakers have tilted the balance wheel to a 12° angle to achieve peak performance. Found at 12 o'clock to echo the Sterrato rev counter, its flipped positioning provides a better view for the wearer, who can now fully enjoy its spiral oscillations - the beating heart of the watch. Completing these impressive mechanics, the date is featured at 6 o’clock.

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When viewed from the back, the semi-skeletonised movement reveals the 360° oscillating mass, reproducing the like-for-like speed effect of a Huracán wheel rim while emulating its design. Supplying 60 hours of power reserve, the automatic monobalancier calibre is a feat of mechanical engineering.

CRAFTED FROM HYPER-TECH MATERIALS

The technical mastery of the Maison is further captured by the timepiece’s modern and hyper-tech materials, specifically chosen for their peak lightness and resistance. One such material is SMC Carbon, which is used to craft the 45mm case. A composite material nine times lighter than gold, its use is directly inspired by the design of Lamborghini Huracán’s monocoque chassis and body panels.

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Meanwhile, six key minute markers are enlarged to give the bezel an even more expressive shape further evoking the Sterrato’s inimitable fender protectors. Crafted from black DLC titanium, the thickness of these elements is increased to mirror the supercar’s heightened ground clearance, so adrenaline-addicted wearers are always reminded of the thrills that come with a supercar built for action. 

DRIVE IN STYLE

Dressed in electrifying orange and audacious red, the timepiece is a stunning demonstration of super-sleek aesthetics. Sharp lines found across the dial from 12 to 7 o’clock and from 12 to 5 o’clock recall the clean-cut lines of the Sterrato’s roof rack. A distinctive feature of every Excalibur Spider Huracán is its crown: inspired by racing nuts, it brings even more roaring style to the wrist. 

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When it comes to the strap, a Quick Release System allows the wearer to change it at pit-stop speed, while the fiery camo pattern recalls the gravel abilities of the super sports car. This distinctive motif requires numerous coloured plates to be vulcanized together through a specific process that takes 30% longer than a regular strap, while the inner strap is crafted from black rubber and features the unmistakable pattern of a Pirelli Super Trofeo R tyre.

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Limited to just 28 pieces, the Excalibur Spider Huracán Sterrato MB blends advanced mechanics and hyper-tech materials with adrenaline-charged aesthetics. Always doing what it takes to get ahead and go beyond what’s expected, Roger Dubuis once again proves it is most exciting way to experience Hyper HorologyTM. Because every second of life must be epic.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection: EXALIBUR

Model:  EXALIBUR Spider Huracán Sterrato MT Carbon 45 Edition

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  Reference: RDDBEX1033 – Limited edition of 28 pieces

This watch was sepcifically developped for the launch of the Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato.
12° tilted balance. Twin barrel. Rotor designed like a wheel rim.
Carbon case with black DLC titanium bezel
Rubber strap with camo pattern, interchangeable with QRS - Quick Release System

Description
Lamborghini, the super car manufacturer from Italy, and ROGER DUBUIS HYPERWATCH™ manufacturer from Geneva, teamed up and unleashed their creativity to release audacious timepieces born to race. The result are watches with unique calibres built like engines. Inspired by Lamborghini, Roger Dubuis developed high technological innovations, offering to its exclusive tribes models evoking the uncompromised machines made by the Italian brand of the bull. The collaboration is also the genesis of unique projects where the client sits with the manufacturer to create his or her very own watch.

Movement
    Calibre RD630
Energy: Mechanical, automatic-winding
    Functions: Hour, minute, second, date
    Components: 233
    Jewels: 29
    Frequency: 4 Hz (28’000 vph)
    Power reserve: 60 hours
    Diameter: 37.1 mm
    Diameter in lines: 16
    Thickness: 7.7 mm
Functions
Hours, minutes, central second, date

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Finishes: Shot-blasted and NAC coated main plate. Shot-blasted and trued-up and NAC coated bridges
Case
    Type: Excalibur skeleton concept with design signature: notched bezel and three lugs
    Diameter: 45 mm
    Thickness: 14.1 mm
Material: SMC Carbon
    Bezel: Black DLC titanium bezel with lacquered markings and sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating
    Crown: Black DLC titanium crown with orange lacquered ring
    Glass: Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating
    Case Back: Black DLC titanium open case back with sapphire crystal and metallized Excalibur Huracàn logo
    Water Resistance: 5 BAR (50 m)
Dial
Red lower flange with transferred texts and minute tracks
Black upper Flange with screw-like hour markers rhodium plated and filled with SLN
Hands
Second hand varnished in orange.
White gold 750/1000 hour and minute hands coated with black PVD
Orange outlined tips filled with SLN
Strap & Buckle
Rubber and camo pattern strap, interchangeable with Quick Release System – QRS
Buckle: Black DLC titanium cover with titanium blades, triple folding, interchangeable with Quick Release System – QRS 

 🔰  Limited Edition - Only of 28 pieces

 🔴 Price  MSRP:  $ 66,500 (excl VAT)

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AUDEMARS PIGUET – Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet STARWHEEL 41 mm

 

AUDEMARS PIGUET – Code 11.59 STARWHEEL White Gold/Ceramic 41 mm Blue Aventurine Dial - 2022

THE CODE 11.59 BY AUDEMARS PIGUET
STARWHEEL REVISITS THE TRADITION OF
WANDERING HOURS

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STARWHEEL AND THE
WANDERING HOURS

Le Brassus, December 2022 – Swiss Haute Horlogerie manufacturer Audemars Piguet is delighted to present its new Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Starwheel, a timepiece that combines black ceramic with 18-carat white gold. Invented in the 17th century, wandering hours are a type of horological complication that display the hours using a system of satellites that gravitate along a minute scale arranged in the form of an arc. This aesthetic presentation of the hours and minutes brings a certain mystique to the reading of time. 

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Equipped solely with a seconds hand, the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Starwheel indicates the time using three discs
that point to a 120-degree scale graduated with 60 minutes © Courtesy of Audemars Piguet

After falling from favour in the 20th century, this system was rediscovered and reintroduced by Audemars Piguet in 1991. Named the Starwheel, this unusual mechanism equipped many models up until the early 2000s. Today, the Starwheel is making a comeback in the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet collection, whose ultra-contemporary design highlights this fascinating display while also paying tribute to a relatively unknown classic in Haute Horlogerie complications.

WANDERING HOURS IN AN ULTRA-CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

From the 17th to the 20th century, the beauty of the wandering hours complication laid in a mysteriously hidden mechanism. Reinterpreted by Audemars Piguet in 1991, this complication revealed in all its splendour with its mechanism visible on the dial.

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The new Starwheel launched this year is a continuation of the models from the 1990s and is housed in the ultra-contemporary Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet case, whose architectural lines are enhanced by the wandering time display. The architecture of the case is reinforced by the overlapping of geometric shapes, including a round bezel, caseback and Starwheel discs as well as a rounded octagonal case middle.

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Blue aventurine serves as a shimmering backdrop for the three discs that rotate on their own axes, like planets in the tiny universe of the dial. The three slightly domed discs are made of aluminium and are tinted black thanks to a PVD treatment, before being adorned with an opaline sandblasted finishing touch. The white wandering hours numerals are then transferred onto the dial. Following the contemporary design, the 120-degree minute sector, which extends in an arc from 10 to 2 o’clock, and the inner bezel, are both black with white minute indications.

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Blue aventurine serves as a shimmering backdrop for the three discs that rotate on their own axes, like planets in the tiny universe of the dial. The three slightly domed discs are made of aluminium and are tinted black thanks to a PVD treatment, before being adorned with an opaline sandblasted finishing touch. The white wandering hours numerals are then transferred onto the dial. Following the contemporary design, the 120-degree minute sector, which extends in an arc from 10 to 2 o’clock, and the inner bezel, are both black with white minute indications.

PLAYING WITH MATERIALS

This new 41 mm reference plays with materials by combining aventurine with 18-carat white gold and black ceramic. This diversity of materials as well as the refined hand finishing – a signature of the Manufacture, which creates an infinite play of light – underscores the complex design of the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet collection. In addition to this, the 18-carat white gold bezel, lugs and caseback contrast with the black case middle and the new black ceramic crown.

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Like the gold components, the ceramic case middle is meticulously finished with the iconic interplay of polished bevels and satin-finished surfaces. Furthermore, Audemars Piguet artisans have used their expertise to achieve the perfect alignment between the multiple angular and round surfaces of the case, which is only possible thanks to their manual craftsmanship. 

On the dial side, the double-curved sapphire crystal magnifies both the numerous details present in the blue aventurine and the finishing of the various elements, while also bringing increased depth to the dial. On the back of the watch, the sapphire crystal reveals the beating heart of the movement, as well as the 22-carat pink gold oscillating weight dedicated to the collection. 

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This new reference is fitted with a textured black rubber-coated strap and a new pin buckle engraved with the Audemars Piguet logo, instead of the usual AP monogram.

A STARWHEEL MOVEMENT
IN THE CODE 11.59 BY AUDEMARS PIGUET COLLECTION

For the very first time, the emblematic Starwheel display is integrated into the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet collection with the selfwinding Calibre 4310. 

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This next-generation hour, minute and seconds movement is directly derived from the Calibre 4309, to which a new module has been added. Combining watchmaking technology, traditional know-how and refined decorations, this movement has a minimum power reserve of 70 hours and is water-resistant to 30 metres.

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The time display is achieved thanks to a central rotor operating a complete revolution in three hours and on which are fixed three aluminium discs that turn on their own axes. Each disc has four digits from 1 to 12 that take turns in pointing to the arched sector at the top of the dial on which the minute scale is printed. The 18-carat white gold trotteuse is slightly curved at the tip to follow the relief of the discs, indicating the seconds like in a traditional timepiece. 

A TRADITION OF TIMEPIECES WITH WANDERING HOURS

The wandering hours system can be traced back to the 17th century following a special request from Pope Alexander VII. Suffering from insomnia that was aggravated by the ticking of a clock, he ordered a “night clock” from the Campani brothers who were clockmakers based in Rome. He requested a clock that would be silent and easy to read in the dark. The Campani brothers presented the Pope with the first wandering hours clock, where the time was read on a semi-circle in an aperture that indicated the quarter hours and was lit from the inside. This night clock was the precursor of the wandering hours system.

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From the end of the 17th century, this complication was introduced into pocket watches without backlighting. While the arc-shaped aperture still measured 180 degrees, the minutes were graduated in addition to the quarter hours for greater precision. During the following century, these watches were offered as prestigious gifts, often bearing the effigy of famous personalities.

In the 19th century, the popularity of the wandering hours complication started to wane. The timekeepers that were produced at this time presented a sector of 120 degrees to facilitate the reading of the time. The quarter hours disappeared along with the small window for the hours, although the display remained mysterious as the mechanism was still hidden. The 360-degree wandering hours version made an appearance at this time too, although it was gradually replaced by the jumping hour that was to become typical of the Art Deco period during the first half of the 20th century. 

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 In 1989, an Audemars Piguet watchmaker rediscovered the wandering hours system in an article in the Journal suisse d’horlogerie. This was a period of increased creativity as the industry was seeing a revival of mechanical watchmaking. In 1991, after 18 months of development, the Manufacture’s first wandering hours watch was presented (Ref. 25720). Named the “Star Wheel” – probably in reference to the three stars that support the sapphire hour discs fixed on a large central wheel – this watch broke the mystery of its operation by revealing the mechanism.

Between 1991 and 2003, around 30 “Star Wheel” models were produced by the Manufacture in several different collections. These aesthetically creative timepieces varied in design with the arc-shaped aperture present in different lengths and locations, some of which also incorporated gemsetting and openworking. By reintroducing the wandering hours system, Audemars Piguet paved the way and opened a new chapter in 21st-century watchmaking.

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Today, with the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Starwheel, the Manufacture is reviving this little-known complication as well as paying a highly contemporary tribute to traditional watchmaking.

    “Invented in 1655 thanks to a request by Pope Alexander VII, who suffered from insomnia that was exacerbated by the ticking of his clock, the wandering hours complication was rediscovered by Audemars Piguet in 1991 and combines history, technical challenges, design and poetry.”
    Sébastian Vivas – Heritage and Museum Director at Audemars Piguet

“Born in Le Brassus, raised around the world.”

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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Model:  CODE 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Starwheel / 41mm

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 Ref. 15212NB.OO.A002KB.01 – Gold/Black ceramic

Movement
Selfwinding Calibre 4310
Total diameter: 32 mm (14 lignes)
Total thickness: 6.05 mm
Number of parts: 261
Number of jewels: 32
Minimum power reserve guaranteed: 70 h
Frequency of balance wheel: 4 Hz (28,800 vibrations/hour) 

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Functions
Hours, minutes and centre seconds.
Case
Black ceramic case middle and crown / 18-carat white gold
Diameter 41 mm
Thickness: 10.7 mm
18-carat white gold bezel, lugs and caseback
Double glare-proofed sapphire crystal
Glare-proofed sapphire caseback
Water-resistant to 30m.
Dial
Blue aventurine dial, black opaline aluminium discs, 18-carat white gold hands and black inner bezel.
Glass
The Manufacture has created a contemporary double curved sapphire crystal, 
whose tense, arched profile plays with depth, perspective and light for a unique optic experience. 
While its internal surface is shaped like a dome, it is vertically curved from 6 to 12 o’clock.
Bracelet
Textured black rubber-coated strap with 18-carat white gold pin buckle.

 
🔴 Price :  55.000 €

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