Eberhard 8 Jours Grande Taille in rose gold and steel

Eberhad & Co. is about to start selling their new take on the elegant 8 Jours manually-wound watch with an 8 day power reserve. Although preserving the same basic dial layout with seconds sub-dial at 6 o’clock and the power reserve indicator at 9 o’clock, the watch grew slightly bigger to match today’s standards and now sports more modern appearance with more prominent lugs and cleaner design.

The watch is powered by the reworked ETA Peseux 7001 hand-wound movement, which is quite popular among both German (Limes, Nomos) and Swiss (Baume & Mercier, Blancpain, Chronoswiss, Maurice Lacroix, Omega, Tissot) watch making companies. Thanks to its extreme flatness (the caliber is only 2.5 mm thick,) the watchmakers are able to create really thin watches with top to bottom height about 5-6 millimeters.

The Eberhard & Co. 8 Jours Grande Taille, however, is much thicker, measuring impressive 11.25mm in height. The extra millimeters are added to squeeze in a power reserve module and provide some living space for the second spring, 125cm (almost 50 inches) in length. The extra spring is responsible for the Grande Taille’s impressive 8 days of power reserve, while the original Peseux 7001 is not able to run longer than 42 hours.

The Eberhard 8 Jours Grande Taille comes packed in an elegant 41 mm case, which is made of rose gold or steel and features a cut-out on its solid caseback to provide a view of its nicely decorated mainspring barrel with an 8-shaped bridge.

The timepiece will be delivered in two versions of dial layout, the first featuring Arabic numerals and the second, which is just a trifle dressier, coming with Roman numerals.

Certainly, a nice watch to own if you can’t afford a Patek Philippe.

Eberhard 8 Jours Grande Taille watch’s specification:

Price range: N/A
Movement: ETA Peseux 7001, modified, manual-wound
Complications: Power reserve
Power reserve: 8 days
Case material: Steel, rose gold
Case dimensions: 41 mm
Case height: 11.25 mm
Dial: White
Water resistance: 30 m
Strap: Crocodile, 18 ct pink gold buckle
Crystal: Sapphire