GLASHÜTTE
PanoTourbillon XL

This new treasure from Glashütte Original catches the observer's eye with its 42mm case size and the modernly arranged dial of the PanoTourbillon XL. The lavishly designed white gold dial is visually divided in two halves that contrast in black and silver while the zones for the various displays are based on the design of the new Pano XL line. The filigreed flying one-minute tourbillon is located in the upper dial half, which is silver. The lower half is dominated by the hour and minute display with its silver-colored Arabic numeral markers against a deep black galvanized background.
The PanoTourbillon XL is powered by the very fine manufacture movement Calibre 41-02. Thus, the PanoTourbillon XL takes its place among the great complications of fine German watchmaking by Glashütte Original.

FRANCK MULLER
Aeternitas Mega

While the basic movement of Aeternitas remains the same, the novelty of this year in Franck Muller Aeternitas Mega is the addition of a Grande and Petite Sonnerie (Grand-strike) Minute Repeater, Westminster Carillon. The movement is equipped with a double barrel: the first barrel guarantees a power reserve of about 4 days; the second barrel provides energy for the Sonnerie. It has a grand tourbillon with a balance wheel with adjustment screws in platinum and no index. The Grande Sonnerie (Grand-strike) strikes the hours and the quarters automatically. The distinctive feature is that it chimes the same notes as the clock tower of the Westminster cathedral. The Petite Sonnerie is programmed by a push-piece placed at 2 o'clock and it is displayed on the dial by a small hand. It only strikes the hours and the quarters (without repeating the hours at each quarter).
The Minute Repeater is activated on request by pressing a push-piece placed at 10 o'clock. It strikes the hours, the number of quarters and the minutes.

ZENITH
Grande Class Open Tourbillon

A star irradiates the dial, an unlikely divine intervention in an orderly world: an unusual design for an exceptional calibre with a tourbillon for the El Primero chronograph. Housing the fastest tourbillon in the world, the 4035 movement chronograph beating at a rhythm of 36,000 vibrations per hour, has a cage surrounded by a rotating date disk and in the centre the Zenith star rules supreme. The 45mm rose gold case has a transparent sapphire case back and is water resistant upto 50 metres. The solid gold dial has handmade "Grain d'orge" guilloché pattern with applied indexes and counters in solid gold. The watch has a handmade black alligator leather strap lined with silky Alzavel calfskin and 18-carat rose gold Grande Class triple folding buckle stamped with Zenith star on the cap.

AUDEMARS PIGUET
Millenary watch with deadbeat seconds

To highlight its new escapement, Audemars Piguet has created a watch featuring an astonishing design with a highly contemporary architecture. This daring approach begins with the beautifully proportioned pink gold oval Millenary case contrasted with the brushed middle and the polished bezel. Nonetheless, the main surprise stems from the entirely open dial with its off-centred displays. With its regulating organ drawing all eyes to 9 o'clock, the timepiece provides a live lesson in mechanical watchmaking. The star of the show is the new escapement with the sharp edges of the wheel, its guard-pin and the unusual shape of its ruby pallet-stones.
The off-centred subdial at 7 o'clock includes a feature known as "deadbeat seconds", an independent display which jumps once a second without disturbing the running of the watch.

DEWITT
Tourbillon à Force Constante

The barrel spring, between the moment when it is wound and the end of its power reserve, delivers a diminishing flow of energy as it winds down. This difference affects the regularity of the watch rate, i.e. its accuracy. The solution consists in incorporating an additional device whose purpose is to replace a motive power which may be variable or irregular by another perfectly constant force, regardless of the degree of winding of the barrel.
The ingenious mechanism, the patented DW 8003 mechanical hand wound calibre, of the Tourbillon à Force Constante DeWitt, is protected by a case with a 43 mm diameter with bezel and middle parts sculpted with the "Imperial Columns" exclusive to the brand, fashioned in white or rose gold and a matching dial in hand engine-turned gold bearing a discreet and exclusive motif: the DeWitt symbol. Finely cut out, the 18 carat gold plaque reveals the mechanism through two unusual openings, one at 8 o'clock for the constant force device and the other at 5 o'clock for the tourbillon cage, while the time is read on an axis centred on the upper half. The dial features 18 carat gold hands and indexes.

JAEGER LECOULTRE
Master Eight Days Perpetual SQ

Already the only perpetual-calendar watch to offer an 8-day power reserve, this model further highlights its exceptional nature with an entirely skeletonised movement. The read-off mode of the perpetual-calendar, power-reserve and day/night indications preserves the transparency of the watch.
The manufacture decided to treat the balance as the pole in order to draw the map of an imaginary world criss-crossed by lines similar to those marking latitudinal and longitudinal lines. The techniques that are implemented pay tribute to the exceptional nature of the movement.
The Master Eight Days Perpetual SQ is distinguished by a range of such complicated indications, that simply arranging them on a normal dial represents an aesthetic feat in its own right. The watch faces thus has to carry indications of the hours and minutes, the perpetual calendar (date, day of the week, month and year), the moon phases, the day/night display and the power reserve. In a skeletonised version the various functions are displayed by transparent discs with transferred indications: numerals for the hours, minutes and date; letters for the day of the week and the month; and symbols for the moon phases and the day/night indication. The day/night indication also features a red security zone that warns the user not to make adjustments between 9 pm and 3 am so as to avoid damaging the perpetual calendar mechanism.