We decided to share with you a watch that is a beauty of engineering and design, definitely a beautiful piece that worth to take a look into, the SHABAKA by Jean Dunand.
Jean Dunand Pièces Uniques was founded in 2003 by master watchmaker Christophe Claret, Switzerland’s leading inventor and constructor of complicated movements, and horological entrepreneur Thierry Oulevay.
Their shared aim: to create advanced and unprecedented horological mechanisms as the basis for unique timepieces representing the summit of contemporary watchmaking.
The two men share a fascination for the Swiss-born artist Jean Dunand (1877–1942), one of the great craftsmen of the art deco movement, and they paid him homage by naming their new brand in his honor.
No watch shares its materials and decoration with another. However, the styling of the watches is always consistent with the art deco ideals of simple geometries, functional design and high craftsmanship in precious materials.
Each Jean Dunand Pièce Unique crafts integral and contemporary works of art... truly unique pieces.
THE SHABAKA
The art deco Egyptian styling of the Shabaka belies an astonishing feat of micro-engineering including a minute repeater with cathedral gongs and an instantaneous perpetual calendar with an ingenious display of day, date, month, moon phases and leap-year cycle.
The calendar indications use four cylinders rotated by their own transmission systems, each fitted with a security device to ensure precise calendar changes. The date, day and month all jump instantaneously around midnight.
The leap year is balanced on the dial by the phases of the moon. Black discs travel over the moon’s surface like the shadow of the earth, accurately eclipsing it to the left as it wanes, and revealing it from the right as it waxes. It deviates from the real moon by one day every 120 years.
The mainspring in an open barrel indicates power reserve against a scale and, thanks to the cathedral gongs, the melodic crystalline chimes of the minute repeater are considerably more powerful than most.
As with every Jean Dunand timepiece, each Shabaka is a unique piece.
Some specifications about this pieces are that contains 721 parts including 54 jewels, the 18K red or white gold with a high-tech multilevel dial
Dimensions gives this beautiful piece the uniqueness that only Jean Dunanad can provide.
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