2014 Baselworld Preview Of Baselworld – Arnold & Son Dte Dual Tourbillon Escape Time
ARNOLD & SON made a superb watch to celebrate its 250th anniversary, cleverly blending the brand’s strong British tradition and ingenious excellence in watchmaking, reflecting the brand’s reputation and vision look. The unique and impressive dual tourbillon escapement timepiece is a treasure of mechanical and elegant aesthetics. DTE is a masterpiece that combines symmetry, balance, and three-dimensional beauty, while reflecting forward-looking technology and ultimate precision performance. The watch is equipped with a new mechanical manual winding movement A & S8513, which displays the century-old traditional double tourbillon movement in the style of the 21st century; it is equipped with two independent time zone displays, each of which has a dedicated setting mechanism, which can Set independently; in addition, there is an independent gear train and tourbillon escapement.
ARNOLD & SON 250th Anniversary DTE Watch (Limited 28 pieces)
In addition to the dual tourbillon escapement and dual disc / dual time indication, the watch is exceptionally accurate; it not only provides the hours and minutes of local time, but also the hours and minutes of the second time zone that can be set independently. The wearer can thus obtain a precise time zone with a time difference of only one quarter of an hour or half an hour from Greenwich Mean Time. The dual barrel provides an extremely long 90-hour power reserve.
The typical ARNOLD & SON watch style is very meticulous and features superior fine watchmaking finishing. The dial is symmetrical and deep on the side of the watch. The dual time display is equipped with two domed white lacquered dials, one at 12 o’clock and the other at 6 o’clock. The two tourbillon escapements are coordinated and balanced at 3 and 9 o’clock, and they sit on the 18K red gold bridge, as if floating on the dial. These lacquered dual dials and double tourbillon escapements are decorated with ornate vertical Geneva stripe background stripe plates, and the other two crowns for setting local time and home time are at 2 and 8 o’clock. Both mainsprings are set with a crown at 2 o’clock.
DTE’s 18K red gold case has a diameter of 43.5 mm. The white dial (with Roman numerals and Arabic numerals) is equipped with blue steel hour and minute hands. The transparent sapphire crystal on the back of the watch allows the ornate nickel-silver movement to be seen at a glance. In short, this masterpiece with both tradition and innovation, technology and elegance shows that ARNOLD & SON’s watchmaking realm has reached a higher level and watchmaking achievements have reached a new level.
18K rose gold case / Exclusive A & S8513 double tourbillon mechanical movement / manual winding / dome white lacquered dial / diameter 43.5mm