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| Courtesy of Sartory Billard / Studio Underdog |
This past April, my old friend Armand Billard (Patron Saint of the Oberlin Watch Company) in collaboration with Studio Underdog came out with this wrist-rocket!
This is the SB05 Sunfl0wer, and yes, I am a bit obsessed!
There are people you meet who change the course of your trajectory - and I can absolutely say without fear of contradiction that meeting and working (albeit briefly) changed my life as a "behind the scenes" presence in Watch Town. So much so that people do a double take and assume that I'm "name dropping" to impress them ; )
So we are now at the latest chapter - at least the latest that I am writing about. This is the fantastic mash-up between two emerging forces in watches. And what is so fantastic about this watch is that it clearly champions the ethos of both of the participants.
As far as I know, this one sold out before the main production even started - I await correction from Armand if I got that part wrong ; )
But for those of us who missed the boat, I would rather light a candle than curse our darkness, so here are the pertinents so that we can collectively live vicariously through the lucky 10 future owners -
Dial
Golden outer section Grand-grain guilloche.
Brown Grand-grain guilloche pattern center disk.
Brown Grand-grain guilloche pattern small seconds sub-dial.
Sapphire disk with pad printed delicate golden hour markers and black
minute track.
Sartory-Billard reference : SB05SUN
Movement
La Joux Perret ref 7380Winding Mechanism: Manual
Finishing: Dark metallic grey color (NAC)
Diameter: 30.00 mm
Height: 2.90 mm
Frequency: 3 Hz
21 jewels
Power reserve: 90 hours
Case & Strap
Material: 316L steel
Finishing: Polished, Brushed and Micro-blasted
Diameter: 38.50 mm
Height: 8.50 mm
Lug to lug: 45.50 mm
Water resistant: 50 m
Strap: 20mm Curved handmade Epsom Calfskin strap made by The Strap Tailor
thank you so very much James :) !!
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