Ten-day power reserve with a single barrel
Hand decorated dial
Exhibition caseback
Seconds on flying tourbillon
44 mm trademarked writing slope case
Big date display
Exhibition caseback
Big date display
44 mm trademarked writing slope case
Ten-day power reserve with a single barrel
Hand decorated dial
Seconds on flying tourbillon
The Virtuoso VIII elegantly blends BOVET’s two iconic cases, the Fleurier and the Dimier. It features an inclined crystal aperture on the 12-6 o’clock axis.
The Grade 5 titanium cases of these new Virtuoso VIII Chapter Two timepieces have been treated with brilliant black DLC, creating a “dark side” that contrasts beautifully with the bright and vibrant dial colors.
The new Virtuoso VIII Chapter Two includes everything else that made this introduction special – the patented flying tourbillon with ten days of power reserve, the patented accelerated rewinding system, the writing slope case and sapphire crystal aperture, the fine movement decoration, the big date display, and the two dials forming a horizontal number eight, which in numerology and in multiple cultures symbolizes luck, perfection, and infinity.
For exceptional legibility, the seconds’ display is carefully designed to be displayed by a Super-LumiNova-coated sub-dial. The arrow of the index hangs over the surface of the delicate circular dial showing the 60 seconds.
The easy, precise readability offered by this display, even in the dark, is remarkable. To achieve this, the seconds’ dial must
be affixed to the plate during the initial assembly phases, which makes the watchmakers’ work even more delicate when working with the Super-LumiNova coating, as one scratch will necessitate starting over.
The Super-LumiNova coated dials, not just indices or markings but the entire dial surface, are available in Yellow, Blue, Salmon, Turquoise, Green, and Violet. Once charged, these dials really pop, showcasing the luminosity in a unique way. You will be surprised and delighted the first time you see these timepieces when they transition from the light into the dark.
It is hard to imagine that a Super-LumiNova dial with such a diameter, hanging over the date disks, could allow for such a large date display. The space between the units’ disk and the hours’ disk is reduced to optimize readability, making it as large as possible for enhanced legibility. The watchmakers also did not forget the date correction, which does not even require removing the timepiece from one’s wrist, and is performed simply by pressing down on the real sapphire cabochon crown.
The rapid date corrector and iconic 12-o’clock positioning of the crown effectively avoid any accidental date correction.
Finally, the power reserve of over ten days, provided by a single barrel, would require meticulous winding if not for the spherical differential winding system. The application of this ingenious mechanism and the multi-gear three-dimensional teeth of one of its pinions, have received two patents. Because of this differential winding system, the number of crown turns needed for full winding of the spring is halved without increasing friction and forces exerted on the gears.
| Case | Writing Desk Case
44mm diameter 18K Red Gold |
| Dial | Aventurine glass dials |
| Movement | Hand-wound 18’000 v/h Hz frequency |
The Virtuoso VIII Chapter Two
Aventurine glass dial in a 18K red gold case
| Patents | Spherical winding, toothing with multiple gearing, double face tourbillon |
| Functions & patents |
Hours, minutes, seconds on flying tourbillon, big date, power reserve indicator |
| Power Reserve | 10 days on a single barrel |
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