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Ценник на модель ожидается 546600 USD за платиновую модель и 490900 - за золотую. Продажа будет только через бутики VC...
The Traditionnelle Tourbillon Minute Repeater
As with the Patrimony Moon Phase And Retrograde Date, the Traditionelle Tourbillon Minute Repeater is a sparer take on an existing timepiece in the Traditionnelle collection – in this case, the Traditionnelle Caliber 2755, which is a quite spectacular minute repeater and tourbillon with perpetual calendar. The perpetual calendar works in the Caliber 2755 are cadrature (under-the-dial works), so the view from the back for both watches is identical.
Absent the cadrature, the movement has diminished a bit in height. Caliber 2755 QP (the perpetual calendar version) comes in at 7.90mm x 33.90mm, with a 58 hour power reserve (which is not bad at all for such a complicated watch), while caliber 2755 TMR in the Tourbillon Minute Repeater we have here is 6.10mm x 33.90mm. The case of the Tourbillon Minute Repeater is also flatter than that of the perpetual calendar watch – it's 44mm x 12.20mm, versus 44mm x 13.54mm for the perpetual.
The watch will be offered in two versions, a platinum model that will retail for $546,600 and a pink gold model that will retail for $490,900. This will be a boutique-only model.
Parenthetically, although both versions of this watch have very attractive guilloché dials (another difference from the Caliber 2755, which has an unengraved dial), I can't help but wonder whether at some point in the future this watch might not appear with a transparent dial. The perpetual calendar works in the Caliber 2755 look great, but opening up the dial would have had serious consequences for legibility (though that's not that that's necessarily the hugest priority in half-million dollar high complications), but the repeater works in 2755 TMR are both lovely to look at and a lot of fun to see in action. This would make an open dial version much more dynamic (and practical if one cares for such things) than the perpetual calendar version of the watch.
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