Good Quality Outlook 2017 – Pascal Raffy, owner of Bovet Replica Watches Young Professional


“In the world of finance you have to offer a dividend every year and you get stuck into a race to do that. In a family-owned company, however, the first thing you are worried about is the long term. So passing on knowledge and assets is your concern. Furthermore, the freedom that this gives me is the freedom to explore fine watchmaking techniques. If I was looking for a short-term return on investment then I couldn’t do this.

“I have to consider myself more as a patron, at least in the early years. Once the fundamentals are in place, then sound profitability should come automatically. That doesn’t mean it’s guaranteed for the future, of course – you need to maintain it. It is quite a fatherly vision of the company but that is also what brings the passion. When the craftsmen and craftswomen come to work at Bovet they are also at their second home and they are expressing a talent. You can feel this, it’s not impersonal.

The dial is performed in typically Bovet fashion, and that’s to say it’s both very classical and ornate in its styling. What catches your attention first are the two big sub-dials at 10 and two o’clock. Time is read using the two marginally off-center hour and minute hands. At 6 o’clock is your double confront flying tourbillon. Bovet also offers a selection of dials and owners will have the ability to choose from black lacquer, ivory, or blue aventurine.The movement inside has been given the 17BM03-GD, and it’s lavishly hand-decorated into Bovet’s usual high standards. The plates and bridges have been chamfered and polished, the disc plates are sunk and also chamfered, and numerous bridges have been painstakingly engraved by hand.The flying tourbillon deserves special mention since the bridges are made from titanium to decrease inertia and magnetism. But what’s more, they’ve been formed to resemble wings and have been mirror-polished to accomplish maximum sheen.Aside from being beautiful to check at, the motion also has some practical capabilities. The 10-day-long power reserve means owners want not end them regularly, but this kind of long power book usually requires dull winding as well. Not so in the case of this Bovet Virtuoso VIII 10-Day Flying Tourbillon Big Date, since the winding mechanism includes a round String that halves the numbers of turns necessary to fully wind the eye. Incredibly, it does so without increasing both friction or induce required.
“I can promise you that thanks to all 128 people working at Bovet, what we will present in January will be even better than the Shooting Star. I promise that this philosophical view of space-time will be further strengthened.”