Pulsion
Technicals
Calibre reference: CH 1450 Movement details: Mechanical
movement with tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement / Hand winding /
Standard analogue hour and minute display with central hands. This
basic calibre features a built in column-wheel chronograph visible on
the dial side and comprising two counters (seconds and minutes) Movement dimensions: Movement shape: tonneau Width: 30.40 mm / Length: 32.90 mm / Thickness: 7.40 mm Indications: Hours, minutes Chronograph: 60-sec. counter at 1.30 / 30-min. counter at 10.30 / Power-reserve indicator at 9 o’clock Crown: Two positions: winding and setting Push-piece: Single push-piece on the crown : start, stop, reset Power reserve: 120 hours Frequency: 21,600 vph Number of parts: 265 Jewelling: 35 Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet) Case: Tonneau, titanium Case dimensions: Length: 55.40 mm (with horns) / Width: 44.30 mm / Thickness: 16.90 mm Strap: Rubber or Hand-stitched leather Clasp: Folding type, titanium
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Pulsion
Chronograph Tourbillon
This precious timepiece comes with a hand-wound mechanical movement fitted
with a flying tourbillon at 6 o’clock. Its 5-day power reserve is indicated on
a 72° sector.
The column-wheel chronograph visible at 12 o’clock displays the seconds on
a counter at 1.30 on the dial and the minutes on another, positioned at 10.30. It couples directly with the flying tourbillon carriage. The chronograph operations - start, stop and reset – are all controlled by
a single push-piece placed on the crown.The upper and lower bridges and bars are made of a special aluminium,
allowing the movement to take on any colour the customer may request. The mainplate displays an original honeycomb decorative finish visible both
on the dial side and through the sapphire crystal case-back. The heart of the watch is housed in an ergonomically designed
tonneau-shaped case fashioned in one size. The design’s spherical sapphire
crystal further underlines the designer’s intention to create a smoothly
sensual and ergonomic timepiece.
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Origines
The Companions share a common background and knowledge base
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Arabesque
Technicals
Calibre reference: CH 1000-BC Movement details: Mechanical movement with tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement Hand winding Movement dimensions: Length: 31.50 mm / Width: 26.35 mm / Thickness: 5 mm Indications: Hours, minutes Crown: Two positions: winding and setting Power reserve: 120 hours Frequency: 21,600 vph Number of parts: 157 Jewelling: 19 Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet) Dial: Marquetry-worked carbon fibre Case: Rectangular, titanium, (also available with carbon fibre lateral inserts) Case dimensions: Length: 52.58 mm (with horns) / Width: 38,75 mm / Thickness: 14.40 mm Strap: Rubber Clasp: Folding type, titanium
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Arabesque
The Tourbillon “Arabesque” model created by Brigitte Carneiro features an impressive design combined with an extremely light feel achieved by the use of contemporary materials: the rectangular case is made from titanium, while the dial and skeletonised bridges are crafted in carbon fibre and the mainplate is in aluminium.
The mechanical hand-wound movement driving off-centered hour and minute hands is equipped with a flying Tourbillon at 7 o’clock which completes a full rotation in one minute and is adorned on the bridge with tiny sparkling diamonds. The power reserve guarantees a full five days of autonomy.
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Brigitte Carneiro
Brigitte Carneiro was born to Portuguese parents on April 24th 1979 in Thann, a village in Alsace, France. She studied in her native region and then specialised in watchmaking at the Edgar Faure school in Morteau.
Brigitte dreams of bringing a touch of grace and beauty to the world of complicated watches, and her first creation, ARABESQUE, gives just a glimpse on what is to come, especially since M. Gerald Genta, artistic advisor to the Confrérie Horlogère fell in love with her work and agreed to become the "godfather" of her next creations.
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Bel Canto
Technicals
Calibre reference: CH 6000-RI Movement details: Mechanical movement with tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement / Hand winding / Minute Repeater Movement dimensions: Diameter: 30.40 mm / Thickness: 8.88 mm Indications: Hours, minutes Power reserve: 120 hours Frequency: 21,600 vph Number of parts: 308 Jewelling: 44 Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet) Case: Round, titanium Case dimensions: Diameter: 43 mm / Thickness: 14.80 mm Strap: Hand-stitched leather Clasp: Folding type, titanium
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Bel Canto
Tourbillon Minute Repeater
The very first timepiece created and signed by Ranieri Illicher is a minute repeater tourbillon. Equipped with a full set of “cathedral” chimes, Bel Canto is powered by a hand-wound mechanical movement providing a five-day power reserve. Activated via a lever positioned between 8 and 10, the minute repeater’s ”cathedral” chimes sound for twice the duration of standard chimes. Doubling its sequence, the chimes thus sound and repeat hours, quarter-hours and minutes on two notes, bringing to life a rounder and richer sound than usual. The centrally positioned hour and minute hands display the time in conventional fashion. The tourbillon carriage’s upper bridge is R-shaped in tribute to its maker’s first name and features the same meticulously hand-bevelled and mirror-polished finish as the rest of the carriage; the bridges on the movement side form the outline of Italy enriched with a host of delicately hand-engraved mountains, volcanoes and mermaids or, in a Special Edition, the map of Mexico. Further refinements include the movement’s black gold finish.
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Ranieri Illicher
Ranieri Illicher was born in Udine, Italy, on May 27th 1977. After qualifying as an accountant, he decided to pursue his education by specialising in watchmaking and enrolled at the famous WOSTEP where he studied under Kari Voutilainen, one of the great masters of contemporary watchmaking.
He thrives to create the perfect equilibrium between aesthetics and mechanics and the first masterpiece crafted for the Confrérie Horlogère, the “cathedral” minute repeater tourbillion “Bel Canto” illustrates his ambition.
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ImmenSEAty
Technicals
Calibre reference: CH 1053 GS Movement details: Mechanical movement with tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement Hand winding Movement dimensions: Length: Diameter: 30.40 mm / Thickness: 6.80 mm Indications: Hours and minutes
on Earth / Neptune time / Uranus time / Saturn time / Power reserve Crown: Two positions: winding and setting Power reserve: 120 hours Frequency: 21,600 vph Winding crown: Two positions: winding and setting Number of parts: 204 Jewelling: 27 Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet) Dial: Glareproofed sapphire crystal Strap: Hand-stitched leather
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ImmenSEAty
the mechanism
“ImmenSEAty” comes with a hand-wound mechanical movement that provides
five days of power reserve. Along with the centrally positioned hours
and minutes on Earth, the watch shows the time on Neptune, Uranus and
Saturn on individual subdials arrayed on the upper part of the main
dial. At 6 o’clock, it features a flying tourbillon, i.e. one with a
suspended carriage, that includes a Swiss lever escapement and a
construction allowing the carriage to rotate in exactly one minute
without resorting to ball bearings. The watch’s power reserve is
indicated on a 120° sector positioned between 8 and 9 o’clock on the
dial.
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ImmenSEAty
Sculpture de Poignet
UNIQUE PIECE The first creation by Gabriel Salgado de Arce is his splendidly inventive “Wrist Sculpture: ImmenSEAty”.
An entire underwater universe sculpted onto a proprietary movement that gradually reveals an immense variety of marine creatures. Miniature crab-like animals, tiny turtles and starfish, mantises and seashells, all moving in step with the beat of the watch’s mechanical movement. This microcosm can only be explored and fully revealed under magnification. Over 1,600 hours of work went into crafting the watch’s sculpted decor.
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Gabriel Salgado De Arce
Gabriel Salgado De Arce was born to Spanish parents in Bogota, Colombia, on March 12th 1962. After graduating in philosophy, he studied the art of manual engraving from the age of 25, a craft he has been pursuing for more than 22 years.
His ambition is to create one of a kind “Wrist sculptures” impossible to imitate or reproduce.
The Confrérie Horlogère invites you to discover his first masterpiece: ImmenSeaty, a magical underwater world in perpetual motion.
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Confrères
The Companions express their individuality
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La Clef du Temps
Technicals
Calibre reference: CH 1057-CDT Movement details: Mechanical movement with vertical tourbillon-type Swiss lever escapement / Hand winding Movement dimensions: Width 40.10 mm / Length 40.40 mm / Thickness 7.80 mm Indications: Hours, minutes Retrograding running seconds at 4 o’clock Special pace-of-time indicator at 10 o’clock: 1. Doubled-speed 2. Standard-speed 3. Half-speed Power-reserve indicator (PRI) at 8 o’clock Crown at 3 o’clock: Two positions : winding and setting Crown at 9 o’clock: Three positions : speed-of-time modulation Power reserve: 80 hours Frequency: 21,600 vph Number of parts: 364 Jewelling: 47 Water resistance: 30 metres (~ 100 feet) Case: Titanium Movement dimensions: Width 53.20 mm / Length 58.60 mm / Thickness 21.6 mm Strap: Eight rubber-clad strands Clasp: Folding type, titanium
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La Clef du Temps
The mechanism
The sophisticated mechanism allows the wearer to “modulate the speed of time” by simply operating a three-position crown placed at 9 o’clock and serving to alter the running speed of the hours and the minutes.
With the crown in position 1, the pace of time is doubled (so a standard half-hour becomes a full hour on the dial of “La Clef du Temps”); when the crown is in position 2, the pace of time remains the same (i.e. one hour remains one hour); and with the crown in position 3, the pace of time slows by half (so that the value of one normal hour is
displayed as a half-hour on the dial of “La Clef du Temps”).
The mechanical memory of the watch allows its time indications to remain in positions 1 or 3 as long as its wearer wishes, since simply returning the crown to position 2 resets the hour and the minute hand to the real time of day.
Dial information: hours and minutes off-centred, special “pace-of-time” at 10 o’clock, retrograding running 30-seconds-counter at 4 o’clock and a power-reserve indication (PRI) shown on a 120° indicator at 8 o’clock.
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La Clef du Temps
LIMITED EDITION OF 24 PIECES An
exceptional mechanism created by Mathias Buttet – founder of Confrérie
Horlogère – for the Only Watch 09 auction: an event that takes place every two
years and is aimed at raising funds to help children affected by Duchenne
muscular dystrophy.
Touched
by the devastating effects of this disease, Mathias Buttet has developed a
Vertical tourbillon watch which features a hand-wound mechanical movement able
to make the time last longer for those who don’t have much of it. Moreover, the
prototype developed has been
enriched with a further function allowing users to shorten the time if they so
wish.
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Mentors
the Companions aspire to the watchmaking of the future
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