Emblematic models

Tourbillon Royal

Tourbillon Royal

This Forbidden City, that is represented by the “ Royal Tourbillon ”Antoine Preziuso creator, in its most familiar nooks.
Full details of the decorations, carvings, stones crimped, as well as history of the origin. Component of the timeless palace, he likes to share them with a few insiders share the same passion.

This wonderful pocket watch in pink gold which owns a swiss extremely rare Tourbillon movement ébauche of the Watchmaking School dating from 1928, will remain etched at the World Patrimony of “Haute Horlogerie”.

Répétition à quarts

The first stage in this new challenge was to restore the quarter repeater movement, which came from a necklace watch dating back to 1890, with the aim of bringing it back to life again. So each of the numerous components was entirely reworked –or completely rebuilt – to make sure it could fully and lastingly perform the mechanical functions assigned to it and to give it (back) the kind of quality finish worthy of “Geneva” watchmaking.

The hand-engraved dial is in white gold as the case.

Alto

Bringing to life a century-old movement blank belonging to the Geneva Watchmaker’s School, Alto is the embodiment of Antoine’s Preziuso’s longstanding love of antique horology and his all-consuming passion for fine craftsmanship. The understated black crocodile leather strap, pristine white gold case and slender hour and minute hands provide a perfect setting to highlight the exquisitely openworked and hand-engraved details of a mechanism that reveals its inner soul. Like the beautiful stringed instrument (the French word for viola) after which it is named, Alto skilfully and artfully plays the inspiring music of time.

3Volution

The figure 3 gravitates and resonates around this technical innovation, featuring orbital gyrations as regular as those of our planetary system and turning established concepts on their head by playing with the effects of gravity.
Hand-winding this proprietary movement winds a twin barrel that ensures optimal efficiency and a comfortable power-reserve. The last wheel and pinion of the gear-train drives the heart of the system; a circular roller carrying no less than three flying tourbillons. The latter are arranged in an equidistant manner from the centre of the roller, with their respective axes forming an equilateral triangle. Each of the three tourbillons performs a complete rotation around its axis in one minute, while the entire roller needs only 2 minutes and 15 seconds to complete one revolution. Constituting a first factor in enhancing precision, the speed of rotation of each of the tourbillons is thus accelerated by this double revolution. The respective frequencies of the three regulating organs keep step with each other thanks to the resonance achieved thanks to the flange around the circumference of the roller that acts as a resonating chamber.
The main principle of the physical phenomenon of resonance is that each oscillator moves in harmony with the two others in a self-compensating manner. The three oscillators thus vibrate at an average, stable and virtually imperturbable rate. Another phenomenon deriving directly from the first is that the amplitude of each of the oscillators is significantly increased when there is resonance.

1991

The mechanical hour, minute and quarter repeating calibre driving this watch is equipped with a perpetual calendar indicating the moon phases, the day of the week and the month, proudly bears the “Poinçon de Genève”.

The patented striking mechanism winding system is activated by the rotating bezel.

18-carat gold case featuring sharp lozenge-shaped lugs.

The Art of Tourbillon

For a number of years now Antoine Preziuso’s flagship collection, The Art of Tourbillon, has been offering a journey based around a subject which was close to the heart of the famous watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, with numerous unique variations such as Stardust – whose movement and case are set with 2052 diamonds – and Météor, decorated with a middle cut into a meteorite this is the kind of feat that only Antoine Preziuso can now pull off, along with Pop Art and Pop Star, which are the result of his boundless creativity, and the Black Rhuténium and Titanium which are a contemporary version.

The 2006 “vintage” sees the appearance of a new movement reserve. The increased dimensions add to the tourbillon’s chronometric performances – each of its revolutions takes just one minute.

The lack of a dial means that we can admire exclusive movement offering a 90-hour power reserve decorated with hand engraving or with the famous “Côtes Genève”.
The case is declined out of pink gold, platinum or Meteorite.
The dimensions of the barrel-shaped case - reaching 42 mm with a height of 12 mm.