The movement is skeletonized with a coating of anthracite and ruthenium, and to make the time easier to read, the watch has large white hour and minute hand markers and a red arrow-shaped hand to indicate the chronograph. This 45 mm version comes with three major complications: a chronograph, a perpetual calendar and a moon phase. Hublot, known for developing its own high- tech materials, turns out more sapphire-crystal-cased watches than most, if not all, other brands today, despite how difficult they are to produce. Hublot: Big Bang Unico Perpetual Calendar Sapphire.There is only one-of 30-left in the world of the DLC-coated version of the saphire crystal watch that is secured with Super-LumiNova columns, which illuminate like space beams. Unidentified flying object or centuries-old mechanics encapsulated for the future? While Bulgari is accustomed to dreaming up out-of-this-world creations, its watchmakers outdid themselves in 2016, when they introduced this 53 mm skeletonized tourbillon timepiece with sapphire bridges. Bulgari: Tourbillon Saphir Gerald Genta Special Edition. Taking a spin in the world of haute horlogerie, the company introduced the BR-X1 Tourbillon Chronograph, but the latest version comes in an all-saphire-crystal case to highlight the skeletonized movement for extra visual effect. When Bell & Ross debuted the original version of this beauty in 2014, the watchmaker proved it was bent on spreading its wings beyond its aeronautical tool watches. Bell & Ross: BR-X1 Chronograph Tourbillon Sapphire.Even if its functions aren’t clear to you, its cosmic magnificence, set against an aventurine backdrop, needs no explanation. The piece includes an hours and minutes dial rotating every 10 minutes on the central axis, a one-carat diamond with 288 facets spinning in 30 seconds on its axis, a magnesium-lacquered globe turning in 30 seconds, a gravitational tourbillon cage revolving alternately in two directions and a patented differential gears system. Like a mini mechanical universe for your wrist, the entire inner workings of this watch move around the circumference of the case-visible from every angle. Among the mesmerizing movements worth featuring in sapphire crystal, surely Jacob & Co.’s Astronomia takes the cake.
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