1/25/2011

Frédéric Jouvenot Launched Helios "Solar Deity" Watch

New Luxury Watches Report: The reason why this watch is named Helios is because the reference to the sun god in Greek mythology, this time the sun to show the way is unique. The dial in the path of the sun to show twenty-four hours alternating day and night.

This seemingly simple way to display the time in fact an extremely complex mechanism is realized in this Frédéric Jouvenot the Solar Deity watch the series with two different faces, respectively, to correspond to alternating day and night cycle. Watchmaking industry in the world, is the first time in history, the first time that a timer display time is an extraordinary way of a pointer, digital, and disc to display.

Each hour is the one posed by the sun, starting from the center of the dial, in the form of radiation has spread to the edge of the dial. Twelve sun that the sun's path, while the dial shows the past and the future of one hour.


At noon, all of which twelve will be the golden sun to represent the day. In that moment, the dial of the twelve golden sun represents the peak of the sun. Over time the sun along the clockwise direction of these one by one into a black, an hour plus a black to represent the deeper darkness to a point, but to the entire twelve o'clock midnight, will all be black dial . The cycle way to represent a complete turn around the clock day and night cycle, cycle, alternating back and forth.

The watches are all designed to show the world in order to better instincts. In the center of the watch dial is a show-minute disc, and in this disc was not just to display the minutes, because this watch unique way to display the time, it requires a unique control measures, and this disc is a central cartouche the watch to ensure that each hour is displayed correctly, this is a show time of the Revolution, on behalf of this unique time display between the traditional way gap. All the complex mechanisms sealed in a diameter of twelve millimeters, height is five millimeters environment, an environment in which small contained a variety of sophisticated parts than a hundred pieces, the most important of which is two fourteen ruby, ruby ensure that twenty-four in the twelve sun dial in the normal black and gold to switch between.

For example: In the half past three p.m. when the sun turns black the first three channel, also showed minute indicators will point to the direction of six o'clock, just as traditional dial general. The breakthrough in the three pm, the time is because the traditional display, only to Frédéric Jouvenot accomplished this feat, had launched the revolution in the way conventional time display.


When in the design of this watch, its built on three levels, and ultimately designed the operating mechanism of this extremely complex but very unusual watch, and because of the appearance of this watch is also re-planning the company's suppliers and partners in the cooperation between the lines. And designers also sincerely hope that this watch can be very comforwatch wearing it, so when they are as much as possible in the design of the wrist watch to follow the angle of bend lines. Subsequently, they reduce the weight of the watch, and given its very modern design.

The manual winding movement watch, with the traditional way of winding the watch and there is no difference, including a balance screws, polished and high-precision machining in the beam watch decorated with "côtes de Genève" Geneva wave Microhyla and polished steel pawl spring is honing its high-precision processing technology.

Article Source: http://www.newsheart.com
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