Ulysse Nardin – BLAST [ Amourex Peintre ] Gray Titanium 42mm Edition

Ulysse Nardin – BLAST [Amourex Peintre] “Frosted” Skeleton Dial 42mm Grey Titanium Edition - 2025

A FUSION OF THINKERS

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The independent Swiss watch Manufacture Ulysse Nardin, known for its wild mindset and unconventional designs, partners with fashion designer Amoureuxpeintre, presenting an artistic interpretation of a horological object, the Blast Amoureuxpeintre.

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United by a shared desire to challenge the boundaries and to shatter convention, the collaboration between Ulysse Nardin and Amoureuxpeintre began with a deep reflection on the world around us, focusing on the often-overlooked visual cues of everyday life.

   “Hidden meanings are all around us—you just need to look closer to engage and understand how things truly work,” shares the designer.

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Ulysse Nardin has built wild horological objects that have stood the test of time and achieved icon status amongst watch collectors. The Maison has long been at the forefront of redefining time telling conventions, first shattering traditions with the Freak in 2001 — a watch with no hands, no dial, and no crown. Yet, it still tells the time. In this spirit of creative disruption, the fashion designer, artist, and model Amoureuxpeintre sought to convey a minimalist yet emotional expression of time, creating a piece that sparks deeper reflection and encourages the wearer to find meaning below the surface.

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    “Amoureuxpeintre is a very curious, intelligent and articulate designer. He has an energy you find amongst younger generations, where everything feels possible, and boundaries do not exist. He is rooted in his origins, but is a citizen of the world. This boundless spirit has translated into a collaboration that pushes the limits in terms of design.” – Jean-Christophe Sabatier, Chief Product Officer, Ulysse Nardin.

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Staying true to Ulysse Nardin and Amoureuxpeintre’s legacy as mavericks and innovators, this groundbreaking collaboration celebrates the curiosity embedded in everyday life, uncovering the hidden meanings that often go unnoticed in our surroundings.

 AMOUREUXPEINTRE

For Kyrgyzstan-born Vsevolod Sever Cherepanov, known by the artistic moniker Amoureuxpeintre, his philosophy is rooted in the belief that simplicity invites deeper inquiry, prompting an exploration of an object’s true essence. Rooted in his Eastern European sensibility, the designer is driven by a passion for unorthodox, yet modest design, which nods to his collaborative feats with Nike, tenure under Matthew Williams’ brand Alyx, the launch of his own clothing brand SEVER in 2016, and GENESIS 2.0 in 2019, exploring upcycling techniques to craft unique objects.

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Fascinated by how objects are composed and how they evoke emotion, Amoureuxpeintre became one of the first designers to incorporate augmented reality prints into clothing. His work challenges traditional dress codes, creating collections that transcend occasion and redefine style. He has since broadened his portfolio to include HOME 2.0, an interiors division, and SOLUTIONS 2.0, a production and design agency.

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Amoureuxpeintre’s unique approach to design knows no limits of form. From furniture, album art direction, to the design and production of accessories, the polymath brings his investigative vision to a horological object with an eye for monochromatic palettes, with clean and understated form. For Amoureuxpeintre, the beauty and meaning of an object is truly revealed through simplicity.

MINIMALISM, BY ESSENCE

Since its foundation in 1846, the rulebook of Ulysse Nardin was written to defy convention and reconfigure tradition. United by a shared spirit of audacity, both visionaries imagined this exclusive limited-edition series of 29 masterpieces as a canvas to reshape traditional ways of seeing, an invitation to question the role of its elements beyond their initial appearance and encouraging deeper interpretation.

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Amoureuxpeintre’s minimalist vision, sharp geometry, and scarcity of silhouette converge into a timepiece that reimagines the expression of time. For this project, the designer presents a stark, idiosyncratic design language that speaks to a youth culture of curious individuals, inspired by in depth meaning and the authenticity of objects. As such, the artist was inspired by the frosted glass panes that occupy the walls in daily working spaces. Through these frames, silhouettes are distorted – apparent, but not obvious, presenting both clarity and mystery.

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   “Ulysse Nardin is a brand that gave me a whole new perspective on the watchmaking industry, allowing me to see the depth and versatility of the different parts of a single product. I have transferred this insight into the concept of designing a product that comes together. This design should evoke a desire to look inside, to discover new meanings and inspire us to see more of the world around us." – Vsevolod Cherepanov “Amoureuxpeintre”.

BLAST[AMOUREUX PEINTRE]

Born from a shared enthusiasm for rejecting the status quo, the watch celebrates the balance between revealing the mechanics of the timepiece in a subtle, restrained way—inviting the wearer to discover meaning beyond the surface.

Guided by Amoureuxpeintre’s pure and minimalist artistic vision, Ulysse Nardin meticulously reimagined every element of the Skeleton X, creating a one-of-a-kind timepiece, which is a combination of transparency and blurriness, that transforms the concept of reading time. By removing elements from the dial, Ulysse Nardin achieved a design that seamlessly combines minimalism, functionality, and readability.

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At the heart of this creation beats the Manufacture Calibre UN-371, offering a 96-hour power reserve and featuring one of the FREAK VISION’s greatest innovations: a wide, super-light balance wheel in silicon, with nickel flyweights.

The 42 mm anthracite lightweight sandblasted titanium case and bezel complement Amoureuxpeintre’s muted color palette and visionary aesthetic. The watch features a frosted open sapphire case back adorned with Amoureuxpeintre’s signature, while the crown has been refined, removing any ribbed texture to enhance the clean lines of the design. Beneath the anthracite hands coated with grey Superluminova, an unmistakable blurred sapphire skeleton dial brings this concept to life. The frosted-ice effect was achieved through an advanced laser technique, while the fumé effect was created using thin metallization. This ingenious and artfully blurred result was the culmination of over two years of development.

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The result is a dial that subtly exposes the skeletonized movement’s outlines, faintly revealing the mechanics of time like a window of deconstruction. After all, if modern luxury isn’t just about what you wear, but what you know, an introspection into the watch and the sum of its parts reveals just that.

This limited-edition series of 29 artworks is presented on a modern grey Alcantara strap, paired with an anthracite PVD titanium sandblasted tang buckle. A special watch box, crafted in anthracite and grey tones, completes this exceptional collaboration.

   “In my nine years at Ulysse Nardin, we’ve developed some of the most technically complicated projects. This watch stands as one of the most intricate, not only in terms of modifying the components around the calibre but also in giving it a unique personality," says Jean-Christophe Sabatier, Chief Product Officer, Ulysse Nardin.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Model:  Ulysse Nardin BLAST X [ Amourex Peintre] Titanium 42mm Edition

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 Reference: 3713-260LE-9A-SEVER/0A

Limited edition of 29 pieces

Case
    Material: Anthracite PVD titanium sandblasted case and bezel
    Diameter: 42 mm
    Anthracite PVD titanium open case back with frosted sapphire glass
    Water-resistant to 50 meters
Dial and hands
    Frosted sapphire skeleton dial
    Anthracite hands with grey Superluminova
Movement
    Manufacture skeleton calibre UN-371
    Manual winding movement
    Balance wheel, escapement wheel, anchor & balance spring in silicon
    Oversized oscillator
    Number of parts: 173
    Number of jewels: 21
    Frequency: 21’600 vph (3 Hz)
Functions/Indications
    Hours, minutes
Strap and buckle
    Grey Alcantara strap
    Anthracite PVD titanium sandblasted tang buckle
 

🔰Edition ✅ Only ❱❱❱ 29 pieces 

WARRANTY Five years

🔴Price: 💰

    CHF 31’000 (8.1% VAT included)
    EUR 33’100 (21% VAT included)
    GBP 28’210 (20% VAT included)
    USD 32’700 (VAT excluded)

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Ulysse Nardin – FREAK X Enamel Seddiqi Exclusive Edition

Ulysse Nardin – FREAK X Enamel Seddiqi “Yas Blue” Grey Titanium Exclusive Edition - 2024

WORLDS COLLIDE

The 30-piece limited-edition Freak X Enamel Seddiqi marries métiers d’art techniques with state-of-the-art watchmaking, and celebrates the partnership between elite Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin and Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, the Middle East ’s leading luxury watch retailer.

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Ulysse Nardin, the independent Swiss watch maison that has been disrupting haute horlogerie since 1846, is delighted to introduce the new Freak X Enamel Seddiqi, a watch that celebrates shared cultures, traditions and artistic passions that span continents.

The Freak X Enamel Seddiqi is based on the design and movement properties of a 21st century watchmaking icon, Ulysse Nardin’s Freak, which rewrote the horological rulebook when it was introduced in 2001 by pioneering the use of silicon technology in watchmaking.

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The exclusive new watch builds on the timeless story of the Freak’s ‘no hands and no dial’ movement architecture, and tells it afresh with an exquisite guilloché and enamelled hour disc that highlights Ulysse Nardin’s mastery of métiers d’art.

Coloured in “Yas Blue” enamel to echo the piercing electric blue of the evening sky as the sun sets over the waters of the Gulf of Arabia, the Freak X Enamel Seddiqi’s hour disc is the work of very skilled artisans at Ulysse Nardin’s Donzé Cadrans Manufacture in Le Locle and the result of a complex, painstaking process.

Coloured in “Yas Blue” enamel to echo the piercing electric blue of the evening sky as the sun sets over the waters of the Gulf of Arabia, the Freak X Enamel Seddiqi’s hour disc is the work of very skilled artisans at Ulysse Nardin’s Donzé Cadrans Manufacture in Le Locle and the result of a complex, painstaking

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First, the gold guilloché hour disc has a texture that gives the watch an additional visual dimension, resulting in a geometric pattern that gives it a balanced, modern feel. Then Ulysse Nardin’s enamellers add four layers of water-based enamel to it. The enamel begins as a solid, which is then broken down with a pestle and mortar into a fine powder, before it is transformed into a paste with water. Between each layer, the disc is fi red at temperatures of 800 degrees Celsius and then cooled. Cooling takes just one minute. A final, crucial layer of translucent “fondant” enamel gives the disc surface a glossy finish that will be immediately recognisable to métiers d’art connoisseurs.

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For the enamellers, there’s jeopardy in every layer. The disc will be fi red at least fi ve times and the kiln is merciless: each time, the risk is that the enamel will bubble and spoil, at which point, the process must start again. This tension is one of the reasons skilled enamellers are such a rare breed, and why only the very fi nest watches carry enamel decorations.

Sitting on top of this mesmerising hour disc is Caliber UN-230 Manufacture, an automatic with a 72-hour power reserve. The Freak’s signature carousel flying tourbillon features an oversize oscillator and a silicon escapement, and doubles as the watch’s minutes hand, making a full tour of the dial every 60 minutes. A pointer on the hour disc shows the hour against fl oating baton hour markers.

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The watch is cased in 43 mm of grey titanium and comes on a black rubber “ballistic” strap with white stitching and a titanium folding buckle. Due to the technical and artisanal complexity of this beautiful horological object, only 30 pieces will be made, and they will only be available through Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, the United Arab Emirates’ largest and most pioneering luxury watch and jewellery retailer.

BACKSTORY



In the spring of 2001, Ulysse Nardin changed the course of watchmaking history forever with the introduction of the revolutionary Freak. To look at, the first Freak posed lots of questions. It had no dial, no hands and no crown, and yet it was unmistakably a mechanical watch. How was this possible? Did it really work? And how did it work? No one had ever seen anything like it. Because there had never been anything like it before.

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But that was only the start of the story. Because beyond its unique appearance and function, it was powered by a gamechanging movement that contained a high-tech new watchmaking material: silicon.

Silicon was watchmaking wonderstuff. Conspicuous in its silvery blue, it brought myriad benefits to a mechanical watch. It was lightweight, elastic, almost completely frictionless, and highly resistant to magnetism, shocks and changes in temperature. On top of this, it could also be produced in unusual shapes and to fine tolerances. It was the perfect material for creating high-tech, ultra-modern mechanical watch components.

Indeed, mechanical watches with silicon parts, it was quickly established, would be more precise, more accurate and more reliable. This made the Freak a line-in-the-sand watch. And it meant a new chapter in watchmaking had begun, almost three centuries after the last.

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The Freak took its name from the maverick, disruptive, rulebreaking spirit that spawned it and quickly became known for its daring aesthetic, unconventional functionality and wild technical innovation. In time, it would become a flagship for Ulysse Nardin, and a new icon for Swiss watchmaking, recognised all over the world and revered by collectors. There’s still nothing quite like the Freak.

Its influence would spread far and wide. Seeing the advanced properties of silicon platformed by the Freak, countless others would explore its potential so that almost a quarter of a century later, it has become a familiar watchmaking material. But the Freak was first.

Meanwhile, Ulysse Nardin continued to pioneer the use of silicon, and the Freak design. Today, the Freak catalogue is ripe with challenging expressions of the original concept, each new model release acting as a punctuation mark in the story of mechanical watchmaking. Such has been its impact that The New York Times pronounced that the Freak had “changed the face of contemporary watchmaking”.

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The Freak One leads the contemporary line, winning the prestigious Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève’s Iconic Watch Prize in 2023👆. The Freak S continues to inspire awe and wonder with a threedimensional movement that rests under the glass like a spaceship preparing for intergalactic adventures. And the Freak X, with the gently ironic addition of a crown, has become the so-called “daily Freak”.

But no matter how much time passes and no matter what form it takes, the Freak remains a radical. An iconoclast. The watch that changed watchmaking forever.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Model:  Ulysse Nardin FREAK [X ENAMEL SEDDIQI]

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• Reference: 2303-270LE-3AE-SED/3A («ballistic» rubber strap)

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Case
Material: Grey titanium with satin finish
    Grey titaniumbezel
    Diameter: 43 mm thickness: 13.78 mm
    Case-back: Grey titanium with open sapphire
Water-resistant to 50 metres
Movement
    Calibre UN-230 Manufacture
Automatic movement
Flying carrousel movement rotating around its own axis
Balance wheel and escapement in silicon
Oversized oscillator
“Yas Blue” enamel on a guilloché hour disc (bottom of the movement)
Index and bridges with white Super-LumiNova®
    Number of parts: 206
    Number of jewels: 21
    Frequency: 21’600 vph (3 Hz)
    Power reserve of 72 hours
Functions/Indications
Hours, minutes
Flying carrousel movement rotating around its own axis
Strap and buckle
Black rubber «ballistic» textured strap with white stitches
Titanium folding buckle

 

🔰Edition ✅ Only ❱❱❱ 30 pieces

🔴Price: (incl. Swiss VAT) CHF 38,500 / 154,000 AED 💰

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Ulysse Nardin – FREAK ONE Navy Blue Black Titanium

 

Ulysse Nardin – FREAK [ONE NAVY BLUE] Titanium 44mm Carbonium® Black 2024

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Ulysse Nardin presents the new Freak ONE NAVY BLUE, a core collection piece in an alluring deep indigo that nods to both the brand’s history as creator of the world’s finest marine chronometers and its disruptive force pioneering contemporary watchmaking.

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Almost a quarter century ago, Ulysse Nardin changed contemporary mechanical watchmaking with the first Freak. The original Freak of 2001, like so many iterations that followed it, has become a collector favorite and now enjoys the admiration of the international watch community. There’s nothing else quite like the Freak.

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In the years since, the Freak has stood tall as an icon of modern, inventive, rule-breaking watchmaking, an iconoclastic landmark that the watchmaking community has looked to for inspiration. Countless watch companies now use silicon, once a radical, not to mention expensive material that has now become best-in-class standards.

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Among those embracing Freak’s influence were Ulysse Nardin’s own watchmakers, who over the past 23 years have turned to it again and again, improving it and expanding on it, cementing its position as one of the greatest and most important watches of the 21st century. The New York Times declared that the Freak had “changed the face of contemporary watchmaking”.

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In the spring of 2023, Ulysse Nardin introduced the quintessential Freak ONE at Watches and Wonders Geneva, a striking black and gold edition. Following unprecedented demand, the Maison introduced an adventurous new black and khaki green colorway with the Freak ONE OPS at Dubai Watch Week last November. Later that year, the Freak ONE proudly received the «Iconic Watch Prize» at the Grand Prix de l’Horlogerie de Genève. This award acknowledges the impact of the ‘Freak revolution’ on Swiss watchmaking over the past two decades.

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 And now, the independent Swiss watchmaker returns to the model with the Freak ONE NAVY BLUE.

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The watch picks up the Freak ONE’s base characteristics: a 44 mm titanium case finished with satin-polished black DLC and a bezel forged in Carbonium®. Ulysse Nardin introduced Carbonium® in 2019 as a low-carbon-impact material with an uncommonly high strength-to-weight ratio. The case is water-resistant to 30 metres.

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As integral to the Freak collection, the design defies convention with no hands, instead using the tip of the flying carousel Calibre UN-240 Manufacture movement to indicate the minutes and a blue rotating disc with an engraved sunray pattern to show the hours. 

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Its oversize silicon oscillator and balance spring create further visual drama, while the escapement wheel and anchor – the watch’s beating heart – are coated in DiamonSil®, another pioneering material patented in 2009 that offers additional resistance and durability by combining silicon and synthetic diamond.

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The watch is equipped with Ulysse Nardin’s innovative and highly efficient Grinder® automatic winding system, which will charge the watch up to its maximum 90 hours of power reserve. The setting device is recessed into the case back, while the watch is finished with a pair of rubber straps made of 30 percent recycled production waste.

IN ITS TWO DECADES OF LIFE, THE FREAK HAS CONSTANTLY RESET THE BOUNDARIES OF WATCH DESIGN AND ENGINEERING. BELOW ARE SOME OF THE MILESTONE WATCHES THAT DEFINE ITS STORY

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Model:  Ulysse Nardin FREAK [ONE NAVY BLUE]

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• Reference: 2403-500-3A/3A («ballistic» rubber strap)
• Reference: 2403-500-3A/3B (rubber strap)

Case
    Material: Black DLC-coated titanium with satin finish
    Carbonium® bezel
    Diameter: 44 mm
    Case-back: Sapphire with surround in black DLC-coated titanium with satin finish
    Water-resistant to 30 metres
Movement
    Calibre UN-240 Manufacture
    Automatic movement
    Oversized oscillator and balance spring in silicon
    Escapement wheel and anchor in DiamonSil®
    Grinder® automatic winding system, blades technology
    Black DLC-coated bridges with light grey Super-LumiNova® tips
    Blue engraved sunray pattern on the barrel cover plate (bottom of the movement)
    Number of parts: 229
    Number of jewels: 15
    Frequency: 21’600 vph (3 Hz)
    Power reserve of 90 hours
Functions/Indications
    Hours, minutes
    Flying carrousel movement rotating around its own axis
Strap and buckle
    Blue and black rubber «ballistic» textured strap
    Two-tone rubber strap (blue and grey)
    Black DLC-coated titanium and black ceramic deployant buckle
    Both rubber straps made from 30 per cent recycled production waste

🔴 Price MSRP 💰

•     CHF 63’300 (8.1% VAT included)
•     EUR 67’500 (21% VAT included)
•     USD 66’800 (VAT excluded)
•     GBP 58’750 (VAT included)

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Ulysse Nardin – FREAK S Watches of Switzerland Centenary Violet Edition

 

Ulysse Nardin – FREAK S Watches of Switzerland Centenary Titanium 45mm Violet Exclusive Edition 2024

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 ULYSSE NARDIN FREAK S
WATCHES OF SWITZERLAND
CENTENARY EXCLUSIVE

Watches of Switzerland explores modern watchmaking savoirfaire with the Ulysse Nardin Freak S to mark 100 years of retailing the world’s most spectacular watches.

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Watches of Switzerland is delighted to continue its centenary series of limited-edition watches with the Ulysse Nardin Freak S Watches of Switzerland Centenary Edition, a run of 10 pieces that celebrates one of the 21st century’s few watchmaking icons, the Freak.

A FREAK EVENT

Some backstory. Released in 2001, the Freak was exactly what its name suggested. It told the time, and yet it had no dial, no hands and no crown. Instead, its movement became its hands, and it was adjusted using a mechanism hidden in its bezel. As inventive as its design and funct ion were some of its components: the Freak was the first watch to use silicon in a watch movement. 

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By the time of the watch’s release, the hightech material was common in electronics, but it was unproven in watchmaking, until Ulysse Nardin identified it had a number of significant advantages. It was anti-magnetic, anti-shock, largely resistant to extreme changes in temperature, and it was almost frictionless, too. On top of that, it was elastic and easily shaped, and it could be produced to very fine tolerances. This made it the perfect watchmaking material.

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Ulysse Nardin gave the original Freak a silicon escapement with a groundbreaking new design, kick-starting an era of advanced mechanical precision and reliability that in the 23 years since has seen silicon adopted by all manner of watch companies. But history will always show that Ulysse Nardin’s bizarre, ingenious, rule-breaking Freak was first.

PARTNERS IN TIME

Founded in 1924, Watches of Switzerland has always presented its customers with the finest selection of beautifully designed and engineered watches. Watches of Switzerland’s relationship with Ulysse Nardin goes back generations and so it was one of the first to recognise the vision and subsequent collectability of the first Freak of 2001. 

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In its centenary year, the international luxury retailer has come together with the much-loved independent Swiss watch manufacture to produce the Ulysse Nardin Freak S Watches of Switzerland Centenary Edition, a spectacular iteration on the Freak S, the superlative execution of the contemporary Freak.

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Like the original Freak, this high horology piece has no dial, no hands and no crown. Instead, the time is relayed by the watch’s Calibre UN-251 Manufacture, an automatic flying carrousel movement that rotates on its own axis once every 60 minutes, so that a pointed, lume-coated section of the main bridge becomes the minutes hand.

A WATCHMAKING ODYSSEY

The Freak S debuted in 2022 and the sci-fi, spaceship-like form of its movement quickly became instantly recognisable to watchmaking cognoscenti. Beyond its memorable aesthetic, it boasted a series of technical advances: it had a double silicon oscillator, a double escapement in a high-tech, high-performance silicon and synthetic diamond composite called DiamonSil®, a vertical differential, and a new automatic winding system called Grinder® that was twice as efficient as a traditional winding system. 

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The case also had a clever construction that meant it could be produced using a creative, often unexpected combination of materials.

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All of these qualities have been passed through into the Ulysse Nardin Freak S Watches of Switzerland Centenary Edition. Its 45mm case is cast in anthracite-PVD-coated titanium and then paired with a grey titanium bezel that’s released by a grey titanium locker at 6 o’clock so that it can be rotated to set the time. A matching anthracite PVD coating has been added to Calibre UN-251 Manufacture’s gear train.

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The watch is set on an anthracite-coloured “ballistic” rubber strap with a weave pattern that’s finished with violet stitching. And the case back offers a view into the movement through a sapphire crystal that sits in a grey titanium surround engraved with the words “Watches of Switzerland 1924-2024”.

CRYSTALIUM CLEAR

While these details are dramatic in their own right, the most visually arresting element of the Ulysse Nardin Freak S Watches of Switzerland Centenary Edition is the cryst alium plate that sits underneath its movement, a thrilling example of Ulysse Nardin’s modern savoir-faire and craft smanship.

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Crystalium is a form of crystallised ruthenium, an exceptionally rare metal believed to have a production 10 times less substantial than that of platinum. To achieve crystalium, ruthenium is submitted to a procedure that can last a few days, during which it’s grown by vaporisation on a subst rate. 

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This creates an organic finish that can then be coloured with a PVD treatment: in this case, Watches of Switzerland and Ulysse Nardin have given it a whimsical, almost regal purple-violet hue, chosen for its unique variations of reflection ranging from blue to red that catch light in a special way. Because of the way they’re formed, no two crystalium plates are the same, making each of the 10 limited edition watches unique.

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The Ulysse Nardin Freak S Watches of Switzerland Centenary Edition is a spectacular achievement of high horology and a beautiful, landmark tribute to the Freak, to Ulysse Nardin’s wildly inventive watchmaking philosophy, and to the continuing spirit of collaboration that defines the partnership between Watches of Switzerland and Ulysse Nardin.

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    We are thrilled to collaborate with Ulysse Nardin on a limited-edition Freak S model as part of our centenary series. This partnership is testament to our commitment to offering the very best in watchmaking savoir-faire to our clients who have a true passion for niche brands. The expansion of our portfolio only opens new opportunities for our clients to experience exceptional precision and craftsmanship.” Craig Bolton, President of the Watches of Switzerland Group UK, and Europe.

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    We are proud and honored to celebrate the Centenary of our highly valued partner Watches of Switzerland with a very exclusive creation that pushes the boundaries of Haute Horlogerie in terms of design, pioneering technology, and unmatched craftsmanship. With no dial, no hands, and no crown, like the revolutionary Freak that changed the face of contemporary watchmaking in 2001, the Freak S is the most complicated time-only watch and the most complex Freak currently in production. Equipped with the patented and revolutionary Grinder technology, the Freak S is the only watch with a doubled silicium oscillators being powered by an automatic winding system. It also reveals the smallest mechanical differential ever created. This exceptional timepiece showcases Ulysse Nardin’s unparalleled craftsmanship with its rare Crystalium hour disc.” Matthieu Haverlan, Managing Direct or of Ulysse Nardin.

Ulysse Nardin will have a dedicated pop-up exhibition in the following London Watches of Switzerland showroom throughout Oct ober; 155 Regent Street, Batt ersea, Bishopsgate, Knightsbridge and Canary Wharf.

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The Ulysse Nardin Freak S Watches of Switzerland Centenary Edition is limited to 10 pieces and is only available through Watches of Switzerland, priced £ 143,870 (including VAT), CHF 155,000 (including VAT), USD 163,500 (before tax)..

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Model:  FREAK S Watches of Switzerland Centenary Titanium 44mm Exclusive Edition

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Reference: 2513-500LE-7A-WOS/3A  


CASE
    Material: Anthracite PVD titanium case and side parts
    Diameter: 45 mm
    Perceived height: 13.66 mm / Overall height 16.56 mm
    Grey titanium bezel and locker
    Anthracite PVD titanium open sapphire case back with “Watches of Switzerland 1924-2024” engraving
    Water-resistant to 30 meters
MOVEMENT
    Calibre UN-251 Manufacture
    Automatic movement
    Flying carrousel movement rotating around its own axis
    Two 20°-inclined oversize oscillators with silicon balance-wheel
    DiamonSil® escapements
    Vertical diff erential with ball bearings
    Grinder automatic winding syst em, blades technology
    Violet cryst alium hour disc, anthracite PVD gear train
    Number of parts: 373
    Number of jewels: 33
    Frequency: 2 x 2.5 Hz / Oscillations 2x 18’000 vph
FUNCTIONS
    Hours, minutes
STRAP
    Anthracite ballistic rubber strap with violet stitching
    Titanium folding buckle

🔰 Limited edition of 10 pieces

 MSRP 💰
    CHF 155'000 (including VAT)
    GBP 143'870 (including VAT)
    USD 163'500 (before tax)

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Marketing Department
Rue du Jardin 3
2400 Le Locle
Switzerland T :+4132 930 74 00
F :+4132 930 74 21
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