Monday, April 26, 2010

2010 BaselWorld Preview: Maurice Lacroix Pontos Decentrique Phased De Lune


A aggregate of mechanics and architecture, the Pontos Décentrique Phases de Lune liberates time from orthodoxy. In a amphitheater of adventurous innovations, the aboriginal arena is acted out at 10 o’clock on an askance dial, area a new and different individual duke advance the minutes, while the boring hours arise at a added comfortable clip on a disk. In the additional scene, two superposed disks at 4 o’clock appearance the phases of the moon and announce day and night. The final scene, conceivably the grandest of them all, takes abode at 6 o’clock: the date is acutely apparent in a metallized azure clear window on a deejay whose patented acknowledgment arrangement has been distinctively developed in-house. Series bound to 500.


Movement: Automatic, ML 122 calibre, 28,800 vib/h, 4 Hz, 28 jewels, rhodium-plated, circular-grained, hand-decorated and snailed finishing with Côtes de Genève motifs, 38-hour power reserve
Functions: Hours, minutes, date, moon phases and age of the moon, day/night indicator
Case: Titanium, sand-blasted finishing, 45 mm
Convex sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on both sides
Screw-down and numbered sapphire crystal back
Water-resistant to 50 m
Dial: Black off-center with openings on the hour disk at 10 o’clock and moon phases and day/night indicator at 4 o’clock
Indication of number of days to next full moon at 4 o’clock
Integrated metallized sapphire crystal on the date at 6 o’clock
Large hour numerals and minute hand coated with C1 white Superluminova creating a blue luminescent effect
Bracelet/Strap Black genuine alligator, black calfskin lining with titanium folding clasp

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