Perrelet Turbine Collection

The Swiss watch maker Perrelet keeps introducing more and more inspiring models. Right after the bizarre Louis-Frederic Split Seconds Chronograph and the elegant Tourbillon Titanium limited edition, here comes the Perrelet Turbine collection of automatic watches.

I seriously doubt that the low-contrast All Black and the Black and Red versions of the watch may be called perfect time keeping instruments.

In both models the dial (or rather the rotating blades of the oscillating weight that form the background for the display) and the hands are of the same color so you will have a hard time reading, err, time until the lighting conditions are perfect.

However, I assume that the new Perrelet Turbine is not really about usability. It is, like a great number of modern luxury watches, mostly about making a statement.

The new timepiece from the legendary Swiss company whose founding father actually invented the self-winding watch, built with the only one purpose in mind: to once again show the gorgeousness of their Double Rotor mechanism.

At the same time, the Double Rotor serves two purposes, providing the watch’s Perrelet P-181 automatic movement with energy and animating the watch’s face with twelve rotating blades.

The watch’s connection with aviation is further emphasized with a pair of stylized diamond-shaped hour and minute hands that we often see in different versions of contemporary pilot’s watches.

Hidden inside a rather large case 44 mm in diameter, the movement beats at a rather standard frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour and features a power reserve of 42 hours, which is also quite unremarkable in times when the most advanced engines can keep a watch running for whole ten days or even longer.

At this time, the Perrelet Turbine collection is available in titanium (Ref: A5006/1 and A1047/1), DLC-coated titanium (Ref: A1047/2) and much more expensive 18kt rose gold version, all of them offered on black rubber bands equipped with handy folding clasps..

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Perrelet Turbine automatic watch specification

Price range: $5000 (Titanium) / $5900 (DLC Titanium) / $25,900 (Rose Gold)
Movement: Perrelet P-181, automatic, 28,800 vph
Complications: Double Rotor
Power reserve: 42 hours
Case material: Titanium, DLC-treated titanium, or rose gold
Case dimensions: 44 mm
Case height: N/A
Dial: Black, black and red, titanium
Water resistance: 50 meters
Strap: Black rubber strap with folding clasp
Crystal: Sapphire, AR-coated