This opens up the door for more versions of it in future decades. I am rather sure Bovet will also discover a means of putting diamonds on this – as appears to be the preference for lots of their customers. In any event, the Bovet Recital 18 Shooting Star, as its title suggests, is a very creative and populous timepiece with all the fantasy and originality I would hope goes to the value proposition of a watch that has a price of 295,000 Swiss francs.For 2016, Swiss Bovet gifts the latest timepiece as part of this brand’s ongoing design collaboration with the famed automotive (for the most part) design company Pininfarina in Italy. ABlogtoWatch debuted the initial watch from this connection back in 2010 with the Bovet Pininfarina Ottana Tourbillon. Since then, there are a assortment of relatively inexpensive models, and for 2016, we return to a glitzy tourbillon version that has an interesting new design with all the Bovet Pininfarina OttantaSei 10-Day Tourbillon watch.The most distinguishing design feature of the OttantaSei (means “eighty-six” in Italian) watch is the way the case looks and feels. In 44m wide and 12mm thick, the specs alone do not actually communicate what this wide and proportionally thin case feels just like on the wrist. Since the faces of the case are fitted with pieces of transparent sapphire crystal, this feels really little like how most watch instances do. It seems more like a screen cage for the movement contained inside.

A traditional art applied to watchmaking since the 17th century, enamel endows dials with exceptional and almost inalterable radiance, whether monochrome or decorated using various techniques, notably including miniature painting. The term “Grand Feu” refers to successive firings at very high temperatures of around 800°C.