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In what’s become a highly anticipated annual tradition at Harry Winston, in which it unveils a unique and extraordinary timepiece that’s almost always ridiculously extravagant, magnificently crafted and, quite simply, a sight to behold, the New York house presents the Ultimate Quadri Tourbillon.
For this piece, its designers envision the grand, neoclassical arched entrance of the brand’s Fifth Avenue home and creates a structure from which hangs a white gold pocket watch adapted from Harry Winston’s Histoire de Tourbillon 10, featuring four independent tourbillons.
The watch provides quite the mesmerising show in which the tourbillons rotate counter-clockwise over 36 seconds, while the hours and minutes advance in a traditional fashion. The aesthetics of the watch have been enhanced, with the tourbillons now fitted with blue titanium bridges, and the movement has an openwork structure that reveals its complex architecture.
Providing texture and depth, the bridges and plates are treated with a microbead-blasted finishing that contrasts with others that are satin brushed. Arabic numerals at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock are also presented in a lighter shade of blue and placed in raised platforms, while the famous Harry Winston emerald-cut diamond is given pride of place at 12 o’clock.
The Ultimate Quadri Tourbillon hangs from a free-standing structure made in white gold that echoes the entryway to the house’s Fifth Avenue salon and features a marquetry of blue aventurine and 18 baguette-cut diamonds in the keystone.
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Bulgari has Created the World’s Thinnest Tourbillon Chronograph
Meet the maison’s sixth record-setting marvel.
Featuring a deft blend of chic aesthetics and exceptional technical expertise, Bulgari’s Octo Finissimo watches have set an astounding five world records in watchmaking since debuting in 2014.
In yet another groundbreaking horological feat unveiled at Geneva Watch Days 2020 in August, Bulgari clinched its sixth watch industry record for the world’s thinnest tourbillon chronograph: The Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Chronograph Skeleton Automatic Watch.
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The integrated movement features Bulgari’s record-setting thin chronograph, unveiled last year in the Octo Finissimo Chronograph GMT Automatic. At a remarkable width of just 7.4mm, the case houses the caliber BVL 388 – the ultra-slender 3.5mm openworked single-push chronograph tourbillon movement with a power reserve of 52 hours.
Flaunting a two-counter display in matte grey and weighing just 100 grams, the entire case and bracelet of the limited-edition 50-piece model is crafted in sandblasted Grade 5 titanium with a transparent caseback from which the movement can be admired.
This story first appeared on Prestige Singapore
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