What timepiece could be better suited to celebrating the 195th anniversary of Bovet Watches India Price Replica than a Big Date Tourbillon? Beyond its subtle historic allusions, this Virtuoso VIII represents the very essence of the Fleurier Grandes Complications collection as defined by Pascal Raffy himself. So while the Dimier Collection is designed to showcase the latest advances and innovations in development and technology, the Fleurier Grandes Complications Collection is dedicated to constantly elevating traditional artisanal watchmaking to new heights.

The Virtuoso VIII is, however, the first timepiece in the Fleurier Collection to reprise an inclined crystal aperture along the 12 o’clock to 6 o’clock axis, like the innovative case of the Récital 18 Shooting Star® presented in 2016 and that ofthis year’s Récital 20 Astérium®. This truly innovative concept creates new perspectives for caliber architecture, as well for the decoration and display of functions. The movement of this new ambassador for the collection also features a number of significant innovations, as well as three of the patents pioneered by the Braveheart® Tourbillon, which was initially presented in 2015. But above all, the Virtuoso VIII is the ultimate expression of the artisanal watchmaking tradition that has been upheld by Bovet Horse Watch Replica since 1822.

The new caliber that powers Virtuoso VIII benefits from all the know-how of the watchmakers at Bovet. The extensive testing demonstrates that the latter has already earned a well-founded reputation for its reliability and capacity to drive various additional mechanisms. The energy of the caliber equipping the Virtuoso VIII is released by a single barrel, which provides over ten days of autonomy while maintaining the oscillations of the balance wheel at 18,000 vph. The flying tourbillon’s groundbreaking structure has also proved its worth both in terms of reliability and chronometric performance. But for the Virtuoso VIII, Pascal Raffy decided to opt for an architecture typical of 19th-century watches, with a full plate and bridges hollowed out into a series of scrolls.

This patented double face flying tourbillon has already demonstrated its full chronometric potential. Its fixed point in the center of its axis together with the distribution either side of the escapement and balance-spring give it a balance that drastically reduces the lever-arm effect and friction at the pivot point. To further improve the performance of this tourbillon, a new regulating organ has been developed and produced by the brand’s artisans. The pace of the new caliber is set by a variable inertia balance wheel. Six collets driven into the felly of the balance wheel allow for dynamic setting of the utmost precision. The balance-spring has been specifically calculated for this caliber and balance wheel by the craftsmen at Bovet. It is fixed to the tourbillon bridge by a double-ended mobile balance-spring stud support in accordance with the finest chronometric practices. The hand-finished wheels, traditionally burnished pivots and teeth cut using traditional artisanal methods also improve the chronometric performance of this caliber.
The watch features a very nicely decorated motion, referred to by Bovet as the 11BA12 calibre. It’s a 72-hour power reserve and works in 28,800vph. Truth be told, it is super basic, but if you’re purchasing this opinion because of its aesthetic merit, complications are not that high in your shopping list. The diamonds will split opinion, especially given that the somewhat “masculine” (and I state that really loosely) dial image and size (43mm), but it looks pretty cool on the wrist. What’s definitely cool is that the technique that has gone into the painting of this dial. Love or hate the ending product, it is tough to fault the superb execution of an old-world skill. This dial was painted by Russian jeweler Ilgiz Fazulzyanov on into an 18k gold base plate. It is my view that the Bovet Amadeo Fleurier 43 makes the “are watches art” debate simple to acquire — how is that any different from a painting? And I guess some folks might argue that some watches are artwork (like this one), and some are just watches (like the Casio G-Shock), but there were plenty of folks who laughed at Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup before it became a modern classic.You do not have 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 this classification. With a single Bovet Amadeo Fleurier 43 bit accessible, with a price tag of $196,700 (CHF 171,000), Bovet are banks 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 very best investment they ever made.

In 1822, the Bovet brothers took the decorative watchmaking arts to their highest summits. Since 2001, Pascal Raffy has set out to perpetuate this heritage. The design and decoration of the caliber of the Virtuoso VIII are the ultimate expression of this.. The steel is chamfered and polished. The disk plates are sunk and chamfered. The two sides of the plate are also chiseled with an extremely delicate pattern that demanded the utmost skill from the Manufacture’s engravers to achieve a harmonious contrast with the sumptuous surface of the bridges, which are decorated with the emblematic Fleurisanne engraving. The chamfered and polished edges of the bridges artistically frame the Fleurisanne adornments and clearly define the two distinct decorations. The bridge ofthe tourbillon carriage, meanwhile, is in titanium to lighten the latter and eliminate any possible magnetic charge. These two elegant arms, which spread like wings above the flying tourbillon, were also rounded-off and polished in line with artisanal fine watchmaking traditions. All of these many operations were carried out by hand by the artisans in brand’s decoration workshops.

For their part, the dial-makers have showcased the decoration of the movement to perfection by creating two harmoniously arranged dials. The first indicates the power reserve while the second displays the hours, the minutes, and the magnificent big date aperture. In order to conceal only those mechanisms that would otherwise interfere with the timepiece’s legibility, the surface area of the dials has been reduced to a minimum while sumptuous, rounded-off and hand-polished attachments straddle the bridges before anchoring themselves solidly to the movement. Whether the dials feature lavish ivory or black lacquer or precious blue aventurine, the Arabic numerals and their graduations, as well as the shape of their hands, have been directly inspired by the historic pocket watches from the Bovet’s collections.

For the Virtuoso VIII, this core value primarily concerns its main additional function: the big date. This was designed in such a way that its mechanism occupies the smallest possible surface area while displaying as big a date as possible: two opposing constraints that have been masterfully resolved. It is hard to believe that the diameter of the dial overlooking the big date disks could result in such a sizeable display. The space between the unit disk and hours disk has been reduced to the strict minimum in order to further optimize legibility and enable the use of a single aperture without separating the tens from the units. And the watchmakers have not forgotten date correction either: the date can be quickly modified by simply pressing the crown, meaning that wearers of the Virtuoso VIII need not even remove it from their wrists. The tension of the rapid date corrector together with the emblematic positioning of the crown and bow of Fleurier cases at 12 o’clock neatly avoid any accidental date correction.
The seconds display was the subject of similar attentions. Designed with exceptional readability in mind, it makes use of an hour-marker screwed to the carriage wheel. The arrow of the hour-marker overlooks the surface of the ring dial that displays the sixty seconds.

To conclude, the autonomy surpassing ten days delivered by the single barrel would require meticulous winding had it not been coupled with a spherical differential. The application of this ingenious mechanism and of the tridimensional toothing with multiple gearing of one of its pinions are the subject of two patents. Using this differential halves the number of turns of the crown required to completely wind the spring without increasing either the friction or the force to which the gear is subjected. A true feat indeed, which guarantees both reliability and ease of use.