BASELWORLD 2017 NEWSLETTER - DAY 2

   
 
 

Product Launch

 

New Rolex Sea-Dweller for the Sea Dweller’s 50th Anniversary

Rolex introduced the latest generation of its Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller, a legend among professional divers’ watches created 50 years ago in 1967. The new Sea-Dweller features a larger, 43 mm case and the new calibre 3235, at the forefront of watchmaking technology and employed for the first time in a Rolex Professional category watch. To enhance the reading of the date, it is equipped, also for the first time, with a Cyclops lens on the crystal at 3 o’clock. The dial bears the name Sea-Dweller in red, a reference to the first model. Like all Rolex watches, the new Sea-Dweller carries the Superlative Chronometer certification redefined by Rolex in 2015 to ensure singular performance on the wrist. A technical divers’ watch, waterproof today to a depth of 1,220 metres, the Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller was originally designed for the pioneers of professional deep-sea diving. It is equipped with one of the inventions that contributed to its stature: the helium escape valve, patented by Rolex in 1967. While preserving the waterproofness of the watch, this ingenious safety valve regulates the pressure accumulated in the case during the decompression phases of deep-water saturation dives.
 

TAG Heuer New Autavia

TAG Heuer announced the rebirth of its iconic Autavia chronograph. The original Autavia was the first wrist chronograph with a rotating bezel designed by Jack Heuer back in 1962. The new Autavia case 42 mm in diameter with a 12-hour graduated bezel and equipped with a new Heuer-02 calibre proprietary chronograph movement, the latest generation Autavia carries the DNA and aesthetic codes of the original, updated for today's market. Its functions are tailored to modern requirements: a self-winding calibre, power reserve of 80 hours, date at 6 o'clock, water resistance to 100 metres. In black aluminium, the bidirectional notched bezel encircles a black dial with three white snailed counters in an optimal layout. A legible, balanced display with hands and applique indexes in steel coated with beige Super-LumiNova®.
 

Tudor reveals its First In-House Chronograph

Tudor added to the famous Heritage Black Bay a new model, its first in-house chronograph with Manufacture Calibre MT5813, column wheel and vertical clutch. The new hybrid Heritage Black Bay Chrono chronograph dares to combine the aquatic heritage represented by the Black Bay family with the queen of the racetrack, the chronograph. Boasting a 70-hour power reserve, a silicon balance spring and certification by the Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute, the Manufacture chronograph Calibre MT5813 that drives the Heritage Black Bay Chrono model is a high-performance movement. Crafted in the purest watchmaking tradition, it features a column wheel mechanism and vertical clutch. In keeping with the Tudor philosophy of quality, it presents extraordinary robustness and reliability, guaranteed by an array of extreme tests applied to all Tudor products.
 

Zenith presents Heritage 146

Zenith is presenting a new vintage series: the Heritage 146 chronograph inspired by a 1960s watch and now equipped with an El Primero movement. It features a retro look, a tropical brown or blue dial, a 38 mm-diameter steel case and a column-wheel El Primero movement chronometer. Subtly reinterpreting an historical model, the Heritage 146 is a unique offering combining the best of the Manufacture’s past: design, history and true rarity. As one of the first historical watchmakers to be organised as a full-fledged Manufacture, Zenith has a legacy of more than 150 years upon which to draw. It naturally celebrates this heritage by periodically relaunching some of its iconic vintage models.
 

L’Epée 1839 by Kostas Metaxas

For this new edition of Baselworld, L'Epée 1839 unveils Requiem: a table clock with an 8-day movement designed in partnership with Kostas Metaxas. This limited edition takes its inspiration from the shape of a human skull and displays the time in the sockets of the eye. Requiem is a table clock designed and manufactured by L’Epée 1839, Swiss specialist of high-end kinetic clocks. It measures nearly 19 centimeters (7.4 inches) high and weighs about 2 kilograms (6 pounds). It is made of cast aluminum which is then perfectly finished off in the Swiss workshops of L'Epée 1839. Two skull finishing are available: a black skull associated with a movement in gold-plated brass, or a silver color version: aluminum skull and palladium-plated movement. The new movement is an internally designed 1853 HMD caliber with an 8-day power reserve. This new movement features two discs that display a "slow" jumping hour and sweeping minutes.

 

Longines presents the Flagship Heritage - 60th Anniversary 1957-2017

The perfect alliance of technical mastery and subdued elegance, the Flagship Heritage - 60th Anniversary 1957-2017 marks the 60th anniversary of Longines' first Flagship collection, introduced in 1957. Like the original design, the back of this commemorative timepiece is engraved with the vessel that inspired its name. The face of this anniversary watch looks to that of a Flagship model that Longines' Ambassador of Elegance Kate Winslet fell in love with during her visit to the Swiss brand's headquarters. Proposed in steel, yellow gold or pink gold, this new Flagship has the timeless appeal of its quietly refined style, enhanced by a brushed silver-toned dial with eight hour-markers and four Arabic numerals. A limited series of 60 pieces in pink gold, 60 pieces in yellow gold, and 1,957 pieces in steel.
 

Torpedo Pirata Chrono Day Date by Cuervo y Sobrinos

Cuervo y Sobrinos looks to its Cuban origins and brings a Caribbean flavour to Swiss watchmaking. The new Torpedo Pirata Chrono Day Date offers a wealth of details, inspired by the buccaneers who once plundered ships along the Cuban coast. The lugs reproduce the bow of a pirate vessel, a design repeated in the buckle on the strap, while the crown has the shape of a globe. Visible through the sapphire crystal back, the automatic chronograph calibre with day/date calendar sits inside an ingenious case whose modular construction lends itself to all kinds of creativity, such as the use of steel; an innovation compared with previous Torpedo Pirata watches which are sculpted from bronze, a favourite metal of the great buccaneers of the seventeenth century.
 

Scafograf GMT by Eberhard & Co.

Following on from the success enjoyed by the Scafograf 300 - winner of the Sports Watch prize at the prestigious Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve 2016 - Eberhard & Co continues its journey through the Scafograf world with a GMT version that is certain to please. This new automatic model has the cult attributes of a Scafograf with the addition of a triple time zone that is operated by the position of the rotating bezel and the central GMT hand. The bidirectional bezel is crafted from steel, with a black or blue ceramic insert that coordinates with the cambered dial. Water-resistant to 100 metres, the new Scafograf GMT ensures easy read-off by way of luminescent hands and hour-markers. It comes on a black or blue integrated rubber strap, or with a steel Chassis® bracelet fitted with a patented Declic® folding clasp.
 

RAYMOND WEIL presents its First In-House Movement

RAYMOND WEIL created a new movement in collaboration with Sellita. This exclusive movement was developed and designed by the R&D department of the Geneva watch company and produced by the movement manufacturer based in Le Crêt-du-Locle, in the Jura Mountains. Its distinctive characteristic is the 6 o’clock front-dial positioning of its regulating organ. Named Calibre RW1212 as a nod to the postal code of the company headquarters in Grand-Lancy. The movement is housed in Freelancer “Calibre RW1212” notably featuring an open worked dial revealing the regulating organ at 6 o’clock. The balance-and-spring assembly, held by two bridges, reveals a construction echoing that of the most beautiful tourbillon regulators. The Freelancer “Calibre RW1212” is a two-hand model providing an understated display of the hours and minutes. It took 18 months for the R&D team at RAYMOND WEIL to develop the movement and design the dial revealing the regulating organ at 6 o’clock. All the elements closely relating to the regulating organ were redesigned and pared down, so as to endow this in-house movement with its subtle transparency. The calibre then sprang to life in the hands of the Sellita watchmakers.
 

ArtyA introduces Son of Sea Tourbillon 1/1

ArtyA has introduced a very unique handmade dial, 1/1, manufactured with seabed treasures, natural pigments, gold leaves, real butterfly wings & fish scales to depict these new fanciful and fabulous underwater sceneries. After the discovery of the fantastic herbarium in the 1900’s by Mr. John Briquet. The well renowned Dominique Arpa-Cirpka decided to create her own collection of Mediterranean seaweeds by integrating them in the dial composition of the delicate Son of Sea "Capri Collection". As a subtle complement to the very unique Son of Earth Butterfly Collection realized with real butterfly wings. The ArtyA Son of Sea fits in with elegance and sophistication the incredible colors of the butterflies wings. As Thalès said water is the primary originating principle of everything and ArtyA could not resist to give its modest tribute and vision with its latest Son of Sea from the powerful, fragile, serene and beautiful Seas.
 
 
 
 

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