Description

Bringing you another Simon Brette today with the Chronomètre Artisans ‘Édition Or Rose’. A limited series of 50 pieces, the case is made from rose gold, contrasting deeply with the hand-crafted dial in shimmering black. The idea behind the Chronomètre Artisans was to bring a team of highly skilled artisans and combine their expertise to create a watch with very fine execution and great artistic expression.

The 39mm case in rose gold houses an astonishingly finished manual movement from Simon Brette. Its 226 components showcase interesting details such as mirror-polished concave screws with solid gold chatons, ‘wolf’s tooth’ gearing used for the ratchet and crown (a tribute to chronometers from the golden era), hand-executed graining and chamfering, and of course polished and brushed surfaces, angles, and edges. For this limited edition, some components of the movement were also made of rose gold, such as the bridges and chatons. The two-tone steel hands adopt a new look for better readability and contrast with the black dial, using 5N rose gold PVD finish instead of the blued steel found in the Édition Titane. To stay in line with the two-tone theme of this watch, Simon Brette’s signature dovetail on the caseband comes in white gold.

As for the captivating black dial with a motif known as ‘Battle’, it is fully hand-engraved and layered with a black diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating over a solid rose gold dial. This DLC coating technique is what gives the face of the watch such incredible depth and a glittering aspect.

The mechanical movement’s stop-second mechanism allows for a very precise time-setting, while the winding mechanism is based on an ingenious click system developed by Simon Brette which reduces the number of necessary components.

Each of the 50 pieces is numbered, with the serial hand-engraved on the plate.