Bovet Virtuoso VII with Red or Green Guilloché Dial

Exquisite new guilloché dials in jewel-like shades of green or red enhance the Bovet Virtuoso VII watch collection.

The Bovet Virtuoso VII is a breathtakingly beautiful timepiece, and these two new dial finishes offer additional finesse to its classical good looks.

The piece features a perpetual calendar complication which will quite happily count the days, weeks, months and years without any intervention for 400 years if kept wound. And, with two fully functional dials and a case which can be transformed without the use of tools from a wristwatch to a pocket watch or desk clock, you’d have to say that from case to calibre, this is indeed an extraordinarily clever timepiece.

As stated the Virtuoso VII has a twin dial arrangement, and on the more complex face, a perpetual calendar complication is placed unusually, on the periphery of the dial, with the display for the hours and minutes at the centre.

The days and months are cleverly printed onto sapphire discs allowing for an excellent view through to the movement. A specially devised millimetric rack system enables the retrograde date, which is indicated via an arrow which appears from beneath the hours and minutes dial. In a feat of horological wizardry its marvellous mechanical memory enables it to retrograde back to day number one, regardless of whether the month ends on 28, 29, 30 or 31.

At six o’clock the subsidiary seconds provides constant, reassuring animation. At first glance it appears wholly innocent, but here too technical genius is at work. Behind the open worked arc, a patented seconds mechanism enables the display of the seconds on the same axis on both dials, so that simultaneously, both seconds hands always rotate in the correct direction. As if to offer equipoise, the leap year aperture is positioned at the twelve o’clock position.

On the second dial, the off-centred hour and minutes dial allows for a full appreciation of the movement and its pristine finishing. At six o’clock one can view the reverse perspective of the patented seconds display, while at nine o’clock, a display indicates the reserve of power.

For these new models, luxurious green or red guilloché craftsmanship on the hour and minute dials of both editions and on the peripheral dial elements of their perpetual calendar faces has been executed. Crafted in the “Lotus Flower” motif whose twelve petals symbolise each hour on the dial, this engraving pattern has been an emblematic feature for Bovet since 1822.

These editions feature Bovet’s acclaimed Amadeo® convertible cases in either 18 carat red or white gold. Tactile in character, these case-forms have a noble presence whether they are worn on the wrist, pocket watch chain, or are used as a miniature table clock.

The Bovet Virtuoso VII Red or Green Guilloché models come supplied with detachable red or green alligator leather straps and silver, gold-plated pocket watch chains.

Fact File: Bovet Virtuoso VII Red or Green Guilloché editions

REFERENCE: ACQPR014 18 carat white gold, ACQPR017 18 carat red gold
MANUFACTURER: Bovet
LIMITED EDITION:
CASE: 18-carat white or red gold, reversible
SIZE: ø 43.0mm
THICKNESS: 15.80mm
DIAL: Open worked with green or red guilloche. Sapphire discs for calendar indications, guilloché decoration
MOVEMENT: Bovet Calibre 13BM12AIQPR, manual-winding, 21,60ovph
FUNCTIONS: Hours, minutes, subsidiary seconds, day, retrograde date, month, leap year, power reserve indicator
POWER RESERVE: 120 hours
BRACELET/STRAP: Green or red alligator leather, detachable. Supplied with gold plated silver chain for pocket watch
BUCKLE: Gold ardillon buckle
WATERPROOF RATING: 30m
PRICE: White gold edition, CHF 82,000. Red gold edition CHF 79,000