GPHG Index
2011 Edition · ArtyA

Quadri Rotor Skeleton 500' 000 volts

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Case
Steel
Movement
selfwinding Power reserve: 42 h, 28800 variations / hoursSkeleton movement
Functions
Hours, Minutes
Size
47 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Water resistance
50
Reference
11
Price
4,900 CHF

Description

Tesla Squelette Quadri-RotorThe wonderful world of unique timepieces in the "Luxury Watchmaking" sector commands insanely unaffordable prices in the real world. Such watches remain the privilege of the exceptional few, not to mention the exceptionally wealthy few.But it took the imagination of Yvan Arpa and his team, or rather teams, to rise successfully to the challenge of creating "unique pieces" at mass-production prices.The idea was to bring together the finest, supremely qualified master watchmakers, accustomed to working independently, with meticulous attention to detail and an eye to tradition, namely "Team 1". While "Team 2", however, was carefully hand-picked from among those Artists drawn by Conceptual Art, fired by an all-consuming passion for combining the often somewhat contradictory, if not mutually exclusive, Art and Technology.The result of this collision of ideas was a resounding success: without suffering loss of quality, or comprising the product's luxury appeal, the price squeeze immediately led to the birth of a legendary object. After an interval of reflection/implementation and the creation of a master team, its craftsmen all pulling together to give form to the craziest of ideas, the dream became a reality, blurring the limits between the possible and the impossible, the one sometimes overlapping the other, much to the surprise of even the creators themselves.

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