Hautlence Vortex
Limited Edition of 88 Pieces
The case, in titanium, measures 52mm x 50mm x 17.8mm. It has six 3D sapphire crystals, scratch-resistant, produced by multi-axis grinding; Alternating finishes: sand-blasting, satin-brushing and polishing. It is water resistant to 30 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic Hautlence in-house caliber HLR2.0 with 92 jewels, 21,600 vph and a power reserve of 40 hours. It has an 18kt white gold rotor. Functions are: hours, retrograde minutes and power-reserve indicator. Half-trailing hours displayed by a chain, retrograde minutes, mobile bridge-type calibre.
Calibre description: 2 barrels: one going train barrel (power reserve for the entire watch calibre including power for the second complication barrel) and a complication barrel. Hours displayed by a 12-link chain hinged on a pallet system. The speed regulator ensures that the hour display changes in a controlled and jerk-free manner in 3-4 seconds instead of instantly. It completes 48 revolutions at each hour change.
Hour system activated by a one-revolution mechanism mainly composed of a connecting rod and a rack. Mobile bridge-type calibre comprising the regulating organ and rotating through 60° at each change of hour. Movement kinematics featuring 90° changes of direction by means of special bevelled gears. Manufacturing technology: multi-axis micro-machining, wire EDM, LIGA photolithography.
Finishing: fine-watchmaking type (satin-brushed, hand-drawn, hand-bevelled, ruthenium-anthracite coating and mirror-polished steel elements).
Dial: upper sapphire dial face: minutes in white SuperLuminova; Applied plates for the hours and minutes zones; openings onto the hours and the power reserve; Lower sapphire dial face: semi-opaque metallization; Hour-markers: metal plate with black rhodium-plated galvanic coating and hour numerals in white SuperLuminova Minutes hand: rhodium-plated galvanic coating with white SuperLuminova tip; Power-reserve hand: steel with red-varnished indicator
It comes on a black hand-sewn rolled-edge, rubberised padded Louisiana alligator leather, with large square scales; or a black hand-sewn hornback crocodile leather strap with red topstitching or a black rubber strap; Interchangeability spring bar and screwdriver; Folding clasp: grade 2 titanium with palladium plate.
MSRP is 160,000 Swiss Francs.
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