Eberhard 8 Jours Grande Taille in rose gold and steel

The Swiss-based watchmaking house is about to start selling their new take on the elegant Eberhad & Co. 8 Jours manually-wound watch that offers whole 8 days of 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 in order 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) as well as the 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 in order 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 barrel 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 standard 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.

Sporting rather short lugs and a very compact setting / winding crown the time measuring device will probably feel very comfortable on a normally-sized wrist.

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 really expensive timekeeper like, say, Patek Philippe.

Eberhard 8 Jours Grande Taille watch’s specification:

Price range: €6700 (rose gold case)
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 meters
Strap: Crocodile leather strap with 18-carat pink gold buckle
Crystal: Sapphire