Insight Micro-Rotor Squelette Carbonium® Edition
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Carbonium® Edition
This Edition is probably the sportiet Romain Gauthier looking watch to date, this Insight Micro-Rotor Squelette features a case, crown, dial and buckle made out of Carbonium®. Carbonium® is a high-tech, high-performance, carbon fibre composite invented and produced by French company Lavoisier Composites, and is is three times more rigid than titanium, yet twice as light.
Skeletonized bridges and maintplate in natural titanium
By opening up and stripping down his high-end, time-only automatic calibre, Romain has created a truly contemporary skeleton watch that is a technical and artistic tour de force. Not only do the skeletonised, ultra-light natural titanium bridges and mainplate help to reveal the mesmerising mechanics of the in-house movement, they also provide the perfect platform for the Romain Gauthier anglage specialists to demonstrate their immense skills.
22k gold bidirectional micro-rotor
No matter which direction the micro-rotor oscillates, it provides consistent power that allows the movement to have the constant force necessary for an 80-hour power reserve.
The art of hand-finishing
This skeletonised movement calls on a particular savoir-faire for which Romain and his team have garnered plenty of plaudits since the brand was founded in 2005: anglage, or the art of bevelling, softening, smoothing and polishing components by hand. For each Insight Micro-Rotor Squelette movement features as many as 250 hours devoted to anglage alone, that’s to say the bevelling, softening, smoothing and polishing by hand of the bridges and mainplate, in an extraordinary demonstration of watchmaking artistry.
Movement
The Insight Micro-Rotor’s movement has been designed to be highly visible so the viewer can gain an instant appreciation of the spectacular mechanics and fine finishing, giving rise to the name “Insight”.
Designing and building a movement that boasts a bidirectional micro-rotor is in keeping with Gauthier’s haute horlogerie ethos of developing daring, in-house movements from scratch, as well as with his quest to create atypical, ultra-efficient winding mechanisms.
key materials
Carbonium®
Carbonium® is a high-tech, high-performance, carbon fibre composite invented and produced by French company Lavoisier Composites. It is made by employing a special compression-moulding process to ‘upcycle’ the epoxy resin and carbon fibres found in prepreg tapes sourced from the aerospace industry – fibres once earmarked to form part of an airliner wing, fin or fuselage.
Titanium
Titanium Grade 5 is a modern, high-performance, sporty material offering high mechanical strength, an excellent strength-to-weight ratio, and high corrosion resistance.
Rubber
Rubber is waterproof, durable, comfortable, and resistant to sweat, UV, and temperature changes.
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