De Bethune combines 8 complications into new double-sided must-see
Denis Flageollet turns his or her dream into reality along with a double-sided Grand Complication watch in the style of De Bethune.
In 2011, De Bethune acquired the GPHG's coveted Golden Needle for its DB28. That model marks a new period of time for the brand by blending two design languages: just one respectful of watchmaking convention, the other avant-garde and highly advanced. For Denis Flageollet, the design approach always takes into consideration the past that continues to really encourage him and the advantages which is available from new materials and engineering. As a young watchmaker, typically the double-sided grand complication seemed to be deeply rooted in his depths of the mind, and today, he has turned his / her dream into reality. It is really an advanced complication of style DB.
The watch has from any of the following complications: perpetual date, spherical moon phase present, moon phase retrograde, soar year, ultra-light tourbillon, moving seconds, power reserve indicator and also dual display of a long time and minutes. All encased in a reversible swivel scenario. For the case alone, the corporation has employed a turning system of more than 60 factors mounted on De Bethune's trademark floating lugs, allowing predicament to rotate smoothly along with precisely around its middle axis.
On the traditional edge of the case, with the crown on six o'clock, the look is definitely conservative and elegant, in regular De Bethune style. The following you have a blue mirror-polished ti dial with a hand-decorated stones set with small white gold or platinum hands depicting the stars on the Milky Way. The stars usually are micro-milled using a laser beam in addition to plated with 24-karat gold leaf of tea. In addition , the perpetual diary and three-dimensional moon level are also fully displayed.
Transform the watch over and you'll find an increasingly contemporary personality while even now retaining the essence of De Bethune. Here, with the prized at 12 o'clock, often the exquisite architecture of the DB2529 movement is shown in its glory, as is the end with the power reserve meter and the regarding the moon displayed the retrograde silver indicator. Practical for accurate updating connected with lunar days. At six to eight o'clock is the tourbillon : one of the lightest and best tourbillons on the market, weighing just simply 0. 18 grams.