Four years after unveiling the X-TREM-1 timepiece, the watchmaker from Le Locle reveals two new versions in blue damascened steel, issued in 8-piece limited edition. X-TREM-1, the first of a generation of exceptional timepieces, represents a major technical and aesthetic accomplishment: a flying tourbillon inclined at a 30° angle, mounted on a three-dimensional curvex titanium mainplate, equipped with a retrograde hours and minutes display system that is radically different from existing watchmaking conventions. Two tiny hollowed steel spheres, isolated within sapphire tubes on the left and right sides of the caseband, magically move with no mechanical connection thanks to magnetic fields.
Mystery hours and minutes displayed with indications provided by hollowed steel spheres moving 23 mm inside two cylindrical sapphire tubes. The metal spheres are driven by magnetic carriages following a thread.
- Seconds displayed on the tourbillon cage
- Movement state-of-wind indication
- Fast time adjustment is via an integrated pusher on the caseband at 12 o’clock
- Quick time correction per pusher at 12 o'clock
Distinctive features:
- Use of precisely-shaped magnetic fields in a mechanical movement
- No mechanical connection between time indications and the movement
- Winding and time-setting via lift-out rotating “bows” on caseback
- Skeletonized barrel
