
DB25 Moon phase
Encapsulated in precious materials, an incomparable understanding of the past and present of watchmaking inhabits this radiant piece. Life vibrates everywhere, revealed by the games of light and the purity of its architecture. Roundness, depth and textures collaborate to set the scene of time with an absolute clarity. Resurrected from the past and transposed into modern days, a spherical moon sits among gold stars, crowning this bright theatre.
Silver-toned hand-guilloché, with 12 radiating sectors – De Bethune star-studded sky in mirror polished flame-blued steel set with yellow gold stars with spherical moon-phase indicator in palladium and flame-blued steel at 12 o’clock
Hands:
curved in hand-polished flame-blued steel
Attachments:
Integrated, hollowed lugs
Glass:
Sapphire crystal, 1800 Vickers hardness with double anti-reflective treatment Crown at 3 o’clock, setting in three positions
Back:
Open back in polished white gold and linear power reserve on the back
Sapphire crystal (1800 Vickers hardness) with double anti-reflective coating
Movement:
mechanical hand-wound
Diameter 30 mm – 260 parts – Silver plate and barrel bridge cover polished – Hand-snailed barrels – Hand-polished, chamfered steel parts
- Self-regulating twin barrel, De Bethune Innovation (2004)
- Titanium balance wheel with white gold inserts, De Bethune Patent (2016)
- "De Bethune" balance-spring with flat terminal curve, De Bethune Patent (2006)
- Silicon escape wheel
- Ultra-light De Bethune 30’’ tourbillon in titanium, De Bethune Innovation (2008)
- De Bethune Dead Beat Second, De Bethune Innovation (2011)
Jewelling:
43 jewels
Frequency:
36,000 vibrations per hour
Power reserve:
4 days