Bovet is famous for its pocket watches manufactured for the Chinese market in the 19th century. (Récital 26 Brainstorm® Chapter Two - Red Gold)

The House of BOVET invites you to discover a special edition of the 19Thirty Fleurier with an Imperial Red dial. The red of the dial symbolizes life, health, love, and passion – all things this world desperately needs right now.

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The beautiful hand decorated manual-wind mechanical movement is housed in a 42mm case available in red gold or stainless steel. The movement’s technical excellence and the artistic aspect of its understated off-center dials come together to present an elegant circular “Côtes de Genève” pattern, while the blackened embellishment contrasts with and showcases the intense deep red of the dials.

BOVET handcrafts all of the components in-house, including the very sensitive tandem balance-spring ensuring extraordinary timekeeping precision and impressive reliability, featuring seven days of power reserve with a single barrel.

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The Récital 23 is the first BOVET women’s timepiece to be presented in the trademarked “writing slope” case.

It features a diamond bezel, diamond dial markers, and diamonds that make the sloped case sparkle from every angle. Hours and minutes occupy an off-center dial at 6 o'clock, while a three-dimensional moon phase is displayed on the upper section of the timepiece.

The glistening Blue Aventurine Glass Dial features specially designed hands that form a heart every hour.

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Versatile and elegant, the Monsieur Bovet displays the hours and minutes on both front and back, as well as the seconds with a patented double coaxial display.
Available in a limited edition in white gold with a sumptuous green guilloché dial, it features the iconic patented Amadéo
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case that allows the collector to wear the timepiece with a reversible bracelet, a pocket watch, or display as an elegant desk clock.

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The Récital 26 Brainstorm
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Chapter Two Sunshine Collection, a limited edition of only 7 Magnificent Luminescent yellow dials, is presented in the same movement as the Récital 26 Brainstorm
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Chapter Two Blue Quartz, the winner of the 2020 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève award for Mechanical Exception.

Over 400 handcrafted components complement BOVET’s Engineering Brilliance while featuring a fully hand-engraved movement with three patents: a double face flying tourbillon, a radial guidance system, and a universal time display imagined by Mr. Raffy for intuitive reading of the 24 Time Zones.

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Award Winner. The timepiece that won the prestigious Mechanical Exception award at the 2020 GPHG (the watchmaking industry’s version of the Oscars) is now available in 18K red gold. Powered by an in-house 60-second tourbillon movement, the Récital 26 Brainstorm
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Chapter Two offers a unique take on universal time with a globe-like half-sphere with 24 cities of the world on it, making it easy and simple to set and read the second time zone (and all the other time zones). Add to this a great-looking moon phase display showing the age of the moon in both hemispheres and you can understand why this timepiece is an award winner. The 60-second tourbillon, made completely in-house, is given pride of place at 6 o’clock, with plenty of space around it so you can truly appreciate its mesmerizing motion.

Récital 26 Brainstorm® Chapter Two - Red Gold

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Mastering Tourbillons. BOVET has been designing and crafting its own tourbillons, widely considered the highest complication in watchmaking, for decades. The in-house flying tourbillon in the Récital 26 Brainstorm
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Chapter Two is exposed at the 6 o’clock position, with space all around it so it is easy to appreciate. Now available in Red Gold, this timepiece won the Mechanical Exception award at the watchmaking’s Oscars (the GPHG) in 2020.
 
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Power for Days. Known for its long power reserves (BOVET holds the world record with a pocket watch made in 1910 with 370 days of power reserve), the five days this timepiece will run without having to be rewound makes ultimate sense given the world time function at the 3 o’clock position. When you are traveling, you don’t want to have to worry about your timepiece winding down and having to reset your world time indication. With the Récital 26 Brainstorm
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Chapter Two in Red Gold, concentrate on your business and let this timepiece handle everything else.
 
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Now You See It. The unique, hemispheric moon phase display of the new Récital 26 Brainstorm® Chapter Two in 18K Red Gold duplicates the surface of the moon, with two indicators for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Imbedded in the hand-engraved lunar landscape is luminescent material, adding an additional element to this precision moon phase display. As a result of this hand-applied Super-LumiNova, done entirely in BOVET’s facility, the moon lights up the night.
 
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Sustaining Tradition. Founded in 1822, BOVET has always been known for delicate and beautiful engraving. When producing timepieces for the Chinese market in the 1800s, the brand was the first to hand-engrave the compete movement, showcasing its artistry and mechanical mastery. In the Récital 26 Brainstorm Chapter Two, now available in Red Gold, every piece and part is finely finished to the highest standard, and the back of the flying tourbillon movement is fully engraved. The attention to detail and the artistry on full display is truly remarkable.
 
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Sugar and the Amadeo System. The new Miss Audrey Sweet Art uses a new process, placing colored sugar crystals individually onto the dial, like a miniature painting. The result is spectacular and unique.

The signature 36mm Fleurier Amadéo® convertible case comes in stainless steel hand-set with sparkling white diamonds on the bezel and bow. The unique and patented Amadéo® case can be transformed into a wristwatch, table clock, or pendant all without the use of any tools.

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erta Naas – Senior Contributor Forbes

World’s First: Bovet Unveils Watch Dial Made Of Pure Sugar Crystals​


Over the centuries, we have witnessed watch dials morph from solid pieces of metal with hands to beautifully embellished works of art that boast hand enameling, gem setting, engraving hand painting and more. In recent years, we have even seen great Métiers d’ Arts dials made of feather, straw and wood marquetry, as well as sculptural delights. But now, the house of Bovet 1822 takes the concept of the dial as canvas to a whole new level, revolutionizing time with an art form and material never before executed in watchmaking. The brand adorns the new Miss Audrey Sweet Art watch with a dial made from pure sugar crystals.

Thanks to a technological developments, innovation in materials and processes, and the masterful art of miniature painting, Bovet revolutionizes the way we see sugar and watch dials. Two years in the research, development and testing stages, the idea of using pure sugar crystals for the dial was conceived of by Pascal Raffy, owner of Bovet 1822 for the past 20 years.

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Each Bovet Miss Audrey Sweet Art watch dial is unique, as each is colored and then heated to dry.​


“To celebrate women everywhere, Bovet is introducing the Miss Audrey Sweet Art with a very special dial made from pure sugar, something which has never been done in the long history of watchmaking,” says Pascal Raffy, owner of BOVET 1822. “This patented process, which will not degrade over time or even in extremes of temperature, is very artisanal. The individual sugar crystals are colored and then put in place one by one, like a miniature painting. The result is extraordinarily beautiful.”

In fact, creating a single dial is a complex patented process that consists of many steps from start to finish, including preparing the sugar crystals so their molecular structure won’t change once they are placed on the dial and when exposed to elements such as heat, light and temperatures. In fact, before bringing the Miss Audrey Sweet Art watches to the marketplace, the sugar crystal dials were extensively tested.

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There are a host of different colors that can be achieved via the proprietary process of preparing and painting the sugar crystals.​

To create each dial, the master artisan uses a fine tweezer and microscope, and deftly chooses the right sized crystals for the dial – they must be low enough that the hands, once placed, don’t scrape the sugar spheres and cause breakdown. Once the crystals are selected, the artist combines them with special bio-degradable lacquer paints that have been applied to the rhodium-treated brass dial. The crystals are gently pushed around to obtain their color and depth of hue. No two crystals are exactly the same, with some being a solid color and others being gradient.

Once colored, the crystals are then patiently put into place, with several hundred crystals on each dial. Once in place, the dials then undergo a drying process in an oven or kiln. During the placement of the crystals on the dial, and throughout the drying process, they are extremely fragile and easy to damage. Just like with engraving, one mis-step and a new dial must be started.

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The research, development and creation process to use sugar crystals on the dial like a miniature painting was two years in the making.​

The entire process of creating the crystals takes about week. However, choosing them, painting them, placing them onto the dial takes more than three hours per dial, not including the drying time. The finished dial offers as shimmering delight of texture, color and sparkle – attracting the eye like the finest confections. The colors range from dusty rose to bright orange, blue, green and other mouth-watering hues. Naturally, each dial is a unique piece.

As if putting sugar onto the dial were not sweet enough, Bovet further embellishes the watch dial with specially shaped highly whimsical hands that — once every hour and five minutes when the minute hand catches up to the hour hand — form a heart shape. It is its own sweet message of love. According to Bovet, the Sweet Art dial, compared to a “normal” Miss Audrey dial, is about $3,000 more due to the craftsmanship and the patented process.

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The Bovet Miss Audrey Sweet Art dial is offered in the Amadeo case that easily converts (without tools) from wristwatch to pendant to table clock.​


As if the colors, sugar, and patented procedure were not enough, Bovet encases this special dial in the 36mm Fleurier Amadeo convertible case. Crafted in stainless steel and finished with diamonds, the patented Amadeo case converts from wristwatch, to pendant clock to table clock with ease. The watch is powered by an automatic movement and retails for approximately $25,000.

For the unveiling of the Miss Audrey Sweet Art, there are four initial renditions, including a black and blue gradient sugar crystals dial, a black and green gradient, a gold and pink gradient and a blue and grey gradient dial. Other dial colors include purple, blue, black, gray, green, pink or yellow sugar crystals or a gradient of those colors. The bow and bezel of each watch is set with 103 round-cut diamonds for added sparkle and each watch is finished with an alligator strap. Mouthwateringly sweet.
 
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Complicated, Beautiful Dials. The process of producing this ground-breaking sugar dial is extraordinarily complex. First, the pure sugar crystals are prepared so their structure will not change when exposed to light or heat (no, the sugar crystals will not melt). Then the sweet crystals are chosen for size, then combined with special paints and hand-applied to the dial by one of BOVET’s miniature painting artisans. This demanding process, protected by a patent, leaves no room for error. One misstep and the entire process has to start again.

Thanks to its artisanal and hand-made nature, each and every dial is in effect a piece unique. A variety of colors are available, including solid hues as well as gradients.

The result is an intriguing mix of texture and sparkle, unlike any other dial ever produced in the watchmaking industry.
 
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