The Recital 18 The Shooting Star® features a 5-day tourbillon, an hemispheric universal worldwide time with selectable time zone and ultra-compact 24 cities indicator, an hemispheric precision moon phase, jumping hours and retrograde minutes.

Pascal Raffy, owner of Bovet, tells us more about the watch’s development.

 

The watch includes a very well decorated motion, known by Bovet Watches Braveheart Replica as the 11BA12 calibre. It has a 72-hour power book and operates in 28,800vph. Truth be told, it’s super simple, but if you’re purchasing this opinion because of its artistic merit, complications aren’t that high on your shopping list. The diamonds will divide opinion, particularly given that the somewhat “masculine” (and I state that really loosely) dial picture and size (43mm), but it looks pretty cool on the wrist. What is definitely cool is the technique that has gone into the painting of the dial. Love or hate the end product, it’s tough to confuse the excellent execution of an amazing skill. This dial was painted by Russian jeweler Ilgiz Fazulzyanov on into an 18k gold foundation plate. It’s my opinion that the Bovet Amadeo Fleurier 43 makes the “are watches art” debate easy to acquire — how is that any different from a painting? And I guess some folks may argue that some watches are artwork (such as this one), and some are just watches (such as the Casio G-Shock), but there were lots of folks who laughed at Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup before it turned into a modern classic.You do not need to like or admire something in order for it to be art. If it delivers a wordless message, even if it makes you feel something, then I think that it’s worthy of that classification. With a single Bovet Amadeo Fleurier 43 bit available, with a cost of $196,700 (CHF 171,000), Bovet are banking on a single super wealthy collector agreeing that this piece deserves a spot in their winder. Who knows? In twenty years time, it might turn out to be the best investment they ever made.