Angles Guichets
- Category
- Challenge
- Case
- Steel
- Movement
- Manual-winding mechanical Power reserve: 42 h, 21600 vph
- Functions
- Hours, Minutes, Day/Night
- Size
- 37 x 34 mm
- Thickness
- 6.3 mm
- Water resistance
- 30 m
- Reference
- BQAS0526-37
- Price
- 1,800 CHF
Description
Earthly and celestial. Beda’a presents the Angles Guichets, the first Angles with a complication: a 24‑hour aperture display, with day and night indicated by the passage of the Sun and the Moon indicators. Poetic in intent yet precise in execution, the mechanism is manually wound and housed in a 37 mm case that has become the cornerstone of Beda’a’s offerings, an eight‑faceted body with integrated lugs, structured across three stepped levels.
The Angles Guichets pushes the Angles aesthetic further through one of the most demanding exercises in watch design: the aperture display. The upper aperture displays the hours on a fixed scale from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Sun then the Moon travel across the opening, indicating the passage of day and night. Their motion is slow, almost imperceptible, intimating a different relationship with time.
The lower aperture is dedicated to the minutes. Here, Beda’a introduces a characteristic inversion: as the minute disc advances, a fine arrow set flush with the dial marks the reading point, reinforcing clarity while maintaining visual restraint.
On the movement side, the Angles Guichets retains the hand-wound Peseux/ETA 7001 calibre as a base. This time, however, to allow the timekeeping narrative to unfold across 24 hours, the gear train was revised so that it runs at half the usual speed — completing a full rotation in 24 hours instead of 12, while preserving a 42-hour power reserve. Those revisions were made without compromise to the calibre’s celebrated slimness, keeping the Angles Guichets to just 6.3 mm in thickness, giving the watch a balanced profile on any wrist.
Supplied by the brand to the GPHG for its entry.