Tourbillon Manufacture Perpetual Calendar
CASE : 18K pink gold, gold-plated or polished stainless steel, convex sapphire crystal, transparent caseback, water-resistant to 50m
DIAMETER : 42mm
MOVEMENT : mechanical self-winding (Caliber FC-975, 38h power reserve), silicon escapement
FUNCTIONS : hours, minutes, seconds, date, day, month, leap years, tourbillon
DIAL : openworked with hand-polished hands (or Clous de Paris hobnail motif in the gold-plated version)
Strap. Brown alligator leather with pin buckle or folding claspLIMITED SERIES : 30 in pink gold (88 in the three other versions)
Thirty years young
2018 sees Frédérique Constant celebrating three decades of existence on a resolutely euphoric note. A keen advocate of affordable luxury, the brand has steadily and successfully ploughed its own furrow and continues to display impressive technological performance – whether expressed through Swiss Made smart watches or Fine Watchmaking brought within reach of (almost) all budgets. Its oft-patented proprietary movements have been champions of understatement since 2004. After the in-house development of its first tourbillon ten years ago and its first perpetual calendar two years ago, the Maison now unveils the Tourbillon Manufacture Perpetual Calendar. This self-winding watch features a silicon escapement and tourbillon carriage equipped with the patented innovative smart weight balancing system. This distillation of expertise naturally comes in a 30-piece pink gold limited series, as well as in three other 88-piece steel or gold-plated versions, with or without an openworked dial. All of them carry spectacularly reasonable price tags…