After 195 years of history, Bovet Pininfarina Watch Replica demonstrates how much potential for innovation still remains, in complete respect of the tradition and rules of their art. The innovation in question is illuminating, as it involves combining the traditional technique of miniature painting with the layered application of luminescent material.
The work painted by the artist on the dial’s surface therefore becomes visible by day and by night. The technique presents the artisan with a multitude of expressive possibilities, such as designing a motif that appears differently after dark from the one visible by day.
Spinning after each 24 hours, the world has a hand over it that indicates either another time zone or can be set to be a synchronized 24-hour hand. The hand and the globe can move independently, and that’s obviously part of their inherent complexity of the system. Moving the 24-hour GMT hand over the world is where more intriguing fun comes in, as it is linked to the “double drum” reference city selector placed only within the entire world system. This is maybe one of my favorite complications in the Bovet Watches Australia Replica Recital 18 Shooting Star.When you press at the crown, the mention city advances. To acquire all 24 big time zones, there’s a drum that sits inside of the outer drum. This makes more sense once you see it in operation – and it is super cool. I have always liked rolling drum-style displays, but they are quite uncommon. Christophe Claret is a specific fan of these and made such drums into Jean Dunand watches (lastest one here), and all the current timepieces from Maîtres du Temps. From the Bovet Recital 18 Shooting Star, Bovet made these carefully transferring drums to work together with the index arrow to indicate the second time zone in combination with the GMT hand that moves across the world. It works amazingly well and is elegant in its implementation on top of that. Moreover, playing with the system by pressing at the crown is most likely just too temping a way of overworking the motion and potentially prematurely breaking something, because whoever owns a Recital 18 will likely be playing with this complication a long time.
The skill lies in applying the luminescent material to achieve the same level of detail by night as by day, almost as if the artist is creating two paintings simultaneously. The artisan is also faced with a new constraint, as he must repeatedly move from a lit room to a dark one in order to gauge each step of his work.
Bovet is presenting an entire collection based on this innovation, including the Château de Môtiers 40 model, a red gold watch with the bow and bezel set with 109 diamonds. This timepiece houses a self-winding movement and displays a white mother-of-pearl dial with a miniature painting “butterfly”.
