Il 16 ° Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève ha tenuto la sua cerimonia di premiazione Giovedi alle al Théâtre du Léman a Ginevra. Il
primo premio, il "Aiguille d'Or", è stato presentato a Ferdinando
Berthoud, per il Chronomètre Ferdinand Berthoud FB1, un tourbillon,
descritto come un cronometro marino realizzato per adattarsi al polso.
Il
cronometro è alimentato da un movimento meccanico a carica manuale
originale che comprende più di 1.120 componenti, interamente prodotti in
casa. Il
calibro FB-T.FC presenta una struttura a pilastri e una simmetria tra
il suo tourbillon e il suo meccanismo fusée e catena originale. La fusée è dotato di un sistema differenziale avvolgimento nonché un meccanismo di riserva di "sospeso cono mobile".
I
restanti 14 premi hanno rappresentato un ampio mix di movimenti
meccanici e le voci di alto design e comprendeva una combinazione di
alta orologiai indipendenti rispettati e marche di orologi
internazionali. Chanel,
un marchio di moda internazionale, è stato un vincitore a sorpresa e
due marche di orologi, Girard-Perregaux e Piaget, ha ricevuto due premi.
I vincitori del premio sono stati selezionati dalla giuria di 27 esperti che componevano la giuria internazionale. I restanti vincitori è il seguente:
Premio Orologio Donna: Piaget, Limelight Gala bracciale Milanese
Alta-Mech Premio Ladies ': Girard-Perregaux, di Cat Eye Tourbillon con Gold Bridge
Premio Guarda Uomo: Grönefeld 1941 remontoire
Premio Cronografo: Montblanc 1858 Chronograph Limited Edition tachimetrica
Premio tourbillon: Girard-Perregaux, La Esmeralda Tourbillon
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replica Patek Philippe Calatrava
Titanium watch case? Check. Rubber bracelet with double-fold clasp? Check. Skeletonised dial that bears more than a passing resemblance to a car engine? Check. The Felipe Massa Americas 5 – RM011 is every inch the racing driver's flyback automatic chronograph. At 50 mm it's big. But this is Formula 1. They don't do small. Nor does Richard Mille. That's just one of the things that makes the man and the brand an excellent fit for F1. But it's the fact that Richard Mille treats his watches as R&D tools that really seals the deal.
Felipe Massa has worn a Richard Mille in the cockpit of his car for
every single grand prix since 2004. And that indicates this is way more
than a showpiece for a brand ambassador to flash on his wrist. To borrow a strapline from competitor Tag Heuer, it won't crack under pressure.
Even if it did, Richard Mille would turn a negative into a positive by making it a research and development win. The Felipe Massa Americas 5 – RM011 has an automatic movement with a flyback chronograph first developed for pilots.
You can reset it without stopping the mechanism, by pressing the push
piece between 4 and 5 o'clock, and then stop with the pusher between 1
and 2 o'clock. The graded tachymeter function on the flange calculates speed over time or distance according to speed. The crown has a black rubber cover for extra grip, which makes setting date and time simpler.
It has a tonneau-shape case that took 12 months of research and development to perfect. The machines that tooled the bezel went through 8 days of adjustment on their own. This luxury watch is built to withstand laboratory stress conditions. Despite all that, the petrol head at the helm maintains that nothing beats the real thing.
To find out what the RM011 can really do, you have to subject it to the
shocks and sudden accelerations and decelerations that take place
during a grand prix. It'll pass with flying colours. Oh, and it's water resistant to 100 m. Just in case.
The sapphire glass protecting the dial has a concave shape and is
glareproofed on both sides to stop the wearer being dazzled by the sun,
yet is just 1.2 mm thick.
The skeletonised dial is almost entirely black and grey and looks
fathomless, which gives the luminescent hands and luminous indexes a 3D
quality. They appear to almost levitate above the steel grey of the movement.
Arabic numerals act as anchors, bringing balance and order to the
piece, as do the signature Richard Mille star screws on the bezel. There are three subdials: a small seconds counter at 6 o'clock, and chronograph dials at 3 and 9 o'clock. The large digital date window at 12 o'clock has a red border, which literally jumps off the dial.
You'll also notice pops of yellow on the subdials at 3 and 6 o'clock:
Ferrari colours, as befit Massa's drive at the time the watch was
released.
The sapphire glass display back allows you to view the fascinating,
almost miraculous inner workings of a Richard Mille sports watch.
The Caliber RM011-S is a pared-down automatic movement so your eyes and
brain might actually be able to process the information! Despite being relatively slimline, it still as a power reserve of 50 hours and a geometric rotor for efficient winding.
This
might be a racing driver's watch but that doesn't mean it won't perform
equally as well if you're a grand prix spectator watching Felipe
Massa's car from a grandstand. That's thanks to the exclusive design of the mainspring, which re-winds according to your level of activity. You
could be sitting in a chair, waving your arms about as Massa blazes
over the finish line, or driving your own supercar, and this luxury
watch will keep optimal tension in the mainspring every time.
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