"Roger also wanted the tourbillon to be placed either at five o'clock or at seven o'clock as a statement that we would never be a conventional brand that places this device at six o'clock. This was Roger's statement; he always wanted to be different." But as a demonstration of Rolex Submariner Replica's dedication to the greatest watchmaking integrity, at the time of the launch of his flying tourbillon in 2005, Dubuis was the only brand in the world that made a tourbillon with an in-house hairspring. "This is an example of our authenticity in watchmaking, which we don't really talk about, but is something important to our integrity," says Bruttin.
The Excalibur Pirelli Single Flying Tourbillon
Shortly after the launch of their successful tourbillon, the team at Rolex Submariner Replica began working on what would become two of the most iconic creations of the brand: the first totally modern skeletonised Flying Tourbillon and the ultra-ambitious Double Flying Tourbillon with Differential. Both of these projects posed inordinate challenges, some of which were self-imposed by the brand. "We had a great result with the tourbillon and we loved skeletonised movements, so we tried a few of these with the traditional baroque, old-fashioned skeletonisation. But Roger wanted us to express something different and modern. I remember we went to the hand-finishing department at the manufacture and asked them about the different finishes we could apply. They said, "No matter what, don't make a skeleton movement where all the lines are straight because this is by far the most challenging to finish perfectly.rolex replica watches Polishing straight angles is a nightmare." So we went back to the design studio and immediately designed a skeleton movement that only had straight lines," laughs Bruttin. "As you can imagine, when the finishing department received those plans, they thought we had gone crazy, but eventually they loved the challenge. Then we brought the movement to the Geneva Seal, and at first, they completely lost it. It was like showing them something that came from a time machine from the future. But eventually, they understood what we were trying to do and certified the movement."
Says Andreatta, "The resulting watch -- the Excalibur Flying Tourbillon -- is incredibly important for the brand. It created the iconic aesthetic code of a skeletonised star that seems to explode from around the barrel and reaches across the movement with these lines that express a sense of velocity and energy. As you can see today, this form of contemporary skeletonisation, which almost militates against the old art form of baroque, ornate curved forms, is our signature. You can see it in watches like our Excalibur Spider Pirelli Flying Tourbillon, Excalibur Spider Sottozero, and in our women's watches, like our Excalibur Shooting Star, which incorporates a beautiful hand engraving back into the design, and our Excalibur Astral." Bruttin adds, "On the subject of these women's flying tourbillons, we are the only manufacture in the world that makes multisized flying tourbillon movements where even the cage is in totally different dimensions."
The skeleton motif is also the signature on the non-tourbillon Excalibur models such as the brand's Blacklight -- an incredible marvel of microengineering that features a micro-rotor. Rolex Submariner Replica's first flying tourbillon minute repeater was wound by two micro-rotors. The orientation of the barrel and the oscillator in the Blacklight differs slightly from the tourbillon movements. From the barrel at 4:30 on the watch, the skeleton bridges emanate star-like to traverse the entire dial with a sense of dynamic urgency. Also emanating from the barrel are special sapphire bridges with a special treatment that makes them glow under UV light. Says Andreatta,Panerai Luminor Base Replica "This is precisely the sense of dynamic playfulness that we like to bring to watchmaking. It dawned on us that people only spend part of their time wearing their Rolex Submariner Replica in daylight. A lot of our clients love to go out at night, and we wanted to created watches like the Blacklight and Twofold, where their appearances would be transformed in the darkness, or under UV light, which is popular in nightclubs."
