An Updated Take on the Instrument DSTB

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This is the Dial Side True Beat, otherwise known as the DSTB.  

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This release now introduces the DSTB in stainless steel.

Here are the pertinents -

DSTB, stainless steel 

Calibre: 

A&S6003

Manufacture Arnold & Son movement, self-winding, 32 jewels, diameter 38 mm, thickness 7.39 mm, power reserve 45 h, 28,800 vibrations/h

Functions:

Hours, minutes, true beat seconds 

Movement decoration: 

Palladium treated with Haute Horlogerie finishing: hand-chamfered bridges and polished edges, fine circular graining and Côtes de Genève rayonnantes, dial plate blue PVD treated with large circular finishing, circular satin-finished wheels, blued screws with bevelled and mirror- polished heads
True beat seconds bridges: palladium treated, satin-finished
with hand-chamfered and polished edges
Oscillating weight: NAC grey treated, skeletonized with brushed surfaces 

Dial: 

Domed and white lacquered, sapphire

Case: 

Stainless steel, diameter 43.5 mm, cambered sapphire with anti-reflective coating on both sides, see-through sapphire case back, water-resistant to 30 m

 

Strap:

Hand-stitched black or brown alligator leather

 

Instrument Collection – DSTB

This will be one of the items revealed by Arnold & Son at BaselWorld in a few weeks.

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So what's the big deal?  Let me tell you - "True Beat Seconds".  Okay, so what does that mean?

A "dead beat" or "true beat" second function is one that is so precise that it actually ticks not unlike a quartz or those wonderful old electric clocks I used to stare at desperately waiting for the bell to ring.

The second hand scale occupies the majority of the upper dial, floating above the lower placed hour and minute functions.

The case is of stainless steel, measuring 43.5 mm in diameter.

Limited to 250 pieces.  Here are the rest of the details:

Instrument Collection – DSTB from Arnold and Son

This just in from Arnold & Son -

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43.5 mm of 18 carat red gold encase the calibre A&S6003 an exclusive Arnold & Son mechanical movement, which self-winding, 32 jewels, diameter 38 mm, thickness 7.39 mm, power reserve 50 h, 28,800 vibrations/h 

Here's the info, straight from the source -