Perrelet Tourbillon in gold and titanium
Stepping on the heels of Ulysse Nardin’s Maxi Marine Diver Titanium chronometer, the Swiss manufacture Perrelet reveals its new masterpiece: the Perrelet Tourbillon automatic watch. What is the connection between the two? Well, both timepieces are made of titanium and polished gold, a combination that was unthinkable for mainstream watchmaking brands only a couple of years ago.
The new Perrelet Tourbillon is a spicy dish.
It takes a real courage to introduce a dressy watch with a tourbillon escapement (traditionally reserved for dressy luxury timepieces,) which is not only made of gold and titanium, but also sports a carbon-fiber dial!
Adding insult to injury (or, probably, simply trying to amplify the timekeeper’s “sportiness”,) the Swiss manufacturer offers the watch on a black rubber band.
Ulysse Nardin has already employed such a combination (sans carbon-fiber, of course) in new its diving watch, but the Maxi Marine series was a kind of horological kitsch from the very beginning.
Well, maybe that’s why Perrelet plans to limit Tourbillon’s production to only 20 units.
According to Perrelet, the watch is equipped with their new P-161 automatic movement.
Officially certified by the local COSC authority as a chronometer, the movement is 6.95 millimeters thick and is whole 31 millimeters in diameter, which makes it look very proportionate to the 42 mm case that has its bezel and transparent case back crafted of satin-finished gold and the notched middle part made of light-weight titanium.
Beating at a frequency of 4 Hz (28,800 vph,) the movement can keep ticking for almost five days: the manufacturer guarantees no less than 110 hours of autonomy after the mainspring is fully wound.
The tourbillon carriage, which is placed at 6 o’clock, also works as a small seconds indicator. Since the watch features an off-centered hours and minutes sub-dial, the view at the painstakingly crafted flying tourbillon is never obstructed.
Photos: Perrelet
Perrelet Tourbillon watch’s specification :
Price range: Around $90,000 (MSRP)
Movement: Automatic, Perrelet P-161, open-worked, exclusive decorated Perrelet rotor, 26 jewels, COSC-certified chronometer
Complications: Tourbillon
Power reserve: 110 hours
Case material: 18-carat rose gold and satin-finished titanium
Case dimensions: 42 mm
Case height: 15 mm
Dial: Black, titanium gray with a carbon fiber insert
Water resistance: 50 meters
Strap: Natural black rubber with Titanium deployment buckle with solid 18 carat rose gold cap
Crystal: Sapphire
Evgueni Matoussevitch in Swiss WatchesTags: 42 mm, 50 m, Automatic, chronometer, COSC, P-161, Perrelet, rose gold, Titanium, Tourbillon
