Bovet’s Latest Creative Push
If you’ve had a look into our Bovet case in recent weeks, you have probably been struck by a host of new vibrant colors, intriguing displays, and complications. In short, the brand, which has always been a repository of traditional techniques, has been hard at work reinterpreting these in a contemporary spirit. As always, each can be admired in detail for their rich content, but they also have a head-turning quality as well, which you can wear in virtually any setting.
Bovet’s creative energy is at its most contemporary in its Orbis Mundi watch. The brand has long emphasized the time zone function—watchmaking’s most practical complication for the modern age. In Orbis Mundi the function is simplified and made user friendly with all 24 time zones visible on the main dial and adjustable through the crown. The layout, set off with rich yellow and guilloche also exposes the escapement, balance wheel and three-pronged seconds indicator.
One of the most notable pieces is, in fact, one of the simplest in the collection. With a matte titanium case, the 19Thirty Blue Meteorite sports a dial cut from the 4.5-billion-year-old Gibeon meteorite that is delicately treated in blue PVD.
“Of all the Bovet watches I saw in Geneva this year, the one that struck me the most was the sandblasted titanium watch with the meteorite dial,” recalls Jared Silver. It is significant, rare, and just stunning.” Indeed the meteorite is now protected by the Namibian government, so pieces, as well as examples of this 19Thirty reference will be increasingly hard to find.
Every new Bovet collection is capped by a superlative timepiece, which this year was the remarkable Virtuoso XI, which showcases a wealth of the brand’s watchmaking skills. The watch is the first Bovet to be designed from the ground up as a skeleton watch. The ambition of the design shows in the seemingly floating tourbillon cage—a feature seen in several high- complication Bovets—and the daring array of bridges that lightly suspend the gear train. The remaining plates are richly decorated with Fleurisanne engraving, while the case—also a study in minimalism—is subtly ringed with baguette diamonds.
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