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Kantharos in Singapore
The Kantharos made its first stop of its Asia tour in Singapore on 22
May. Sincere Watch, organised a lunch meet up for the local
press-members to meet up with Christophe Claret and viewing of the
Kantharos at Restaurant Andre.
A recap of the lunch meet ...
Restaurant Andre ...
A cocktail on the first floor of Restaurant Andre before lunch. Various media members mingling among themselves ...
On display, some of the sketches of Christophe Claret's Collections ...
Adagio
Dualtow
X-TREM-1
Baccara
SOPRANO
21 BlackJack
Next we proceed to second floor. The session began with Kingston Chu, Vice-Chairman of Sincere Watch welcoming everyone. He mentioned Sincere Watch will work toward having where the 'brightest stars (of watchmaking) gather'.
Next Christophe Claret came up to greet everyone. The Kantharos movie followed.
After lunch, some pieces from 3 lines of Christophe Claret - The Traditional Complications, the Extreme Watches & the Casino Game Watches were shown to the press members.
Christophe Claret explaining one of his watches to an editor ....
The Kantharos has 5 variations, as stated in the press release ...
Managed to see two versions ..., here are some of the quick snapshots ...
The 45mm diameter (15.83mm thick) pink gold/anthracite titanium case with pink gold dial ...
Bezel & caseback in 5N pink gold , whereas the caseband is titanium (Grade-5 anthracite gray PVD ), a choice-material for better sound amplification...
Crown is a combo of 5N gold & gray PVD titanium.
Deployant is of 5N gold clasp and DLC-coated steel...
5N mono-pusher for chronograph start-stop-reset. Each actuation will sound the cathedral-gong ...
Sapphire bridge with gold chatons can be seen from the dial-side to display the constant-force escapement ...
Hour-counter at subdial 9H, whereas the minute-counter is at 3H ...
A picture of the automatic Calibre MBA13 with 558 components, dial side, displaying the constant-force escapement and the
cathedral going and hammer...
Details about read-out of the chronograph timing and a brief description of the functions of the integrated chronograph is in the press release.
Please click here to access.
Calibre MBA13 ... Claret's in-house designed & manufactured integrated chronograph with constant force mechanism, beats at 21,600VPH and has a power reserve of 48 hours. Swan-neck regulator with brillant-cut ruby at the balance-cock.
Rotor mass is of platinum.
A picture of the Calibre MBA13 from caseback view ...
Laminated steel M-15X which was developed with L Klein SA was used for some components. One of the characteristics of M-15X is its homogenous microstructure contributing to fine grain, enabling highly mirror-polished finishing.
Another variation - the stealth Black Titanium Version with Anthracite dial ...
Black PVD Titanium Grade-5 crown with blue spinel cabochon.
Black alligator strap with blue stitching and DLC steel clasp.
Other interesting pieces were shown ...
21 BlackJack
3D roulette wheel rotating
X-TREM-1
SOPRANO
Tiny details in the Baccara ... with a Chinese character "?" which means fortune ("fu" in Mandarin and "fook" in Cantonese).
Notice the two small dice inside the sapphire-pusher
DualTow
A photo of Kingston Chu, Vice-Chairman of Sincere Watch, Pollyanna Chu, Chairman of Sincere Watch & Christophe Claret
A photo of Kingston Chu, Vice-Chairman of Sincere Watch, Christophe Claret & Ong Ban, CEO at Sincere Watch.
The tour will continue to Hong Kong, Macau and Tokyo within May and June.
Thanks to Sincere Watch for the invite to view the Kantharos.
Kong
This message has been edited by Kong on 2013-05-23 23:50:24
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Kantharos in Singapore
The Kantharos made its first stop of its Asia tour in Singapore on 22 May. Sincere Watch, organised a lunch meet up for the local press-members to meet up with Christophe Claret and viewing of the Kantharos at Restaurant Andre. A recap of the lunch meet ....
