Showing posts with label Graham Silverstone Tourbillograph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graham Silverstone Tourbillograph. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2011

Graham's new Silverstone Tourbillograph

Courtesy of Graham
This just in overnight from Graham -


Functions Column wheel chronograph (seconds, 30 minutes and 12 hours counter). Tourbillon
mechanism
Hours, minutes, seconds
Calibre Calibre G1780, automatic column wheel chronograph-tourbillon, 28'800 A/h (4 Hz),
Incabloc shock absorber
Rhodium blackened movement with Haute Horlogerie finishing. Perlages,
sandblasted, manually chamfered and polished bridges and bottom plate, column
wheel with polished segments and black low-friction coating, ruthenium oscillating
weight with skeletonised rotor and 925 sterling silver segment
34 jewels
Power reserve: 48 hours
Ruthenium tourbillon cage: 48 components, 0.485 grams. Off-centre construction at
11 o'clock. Complete see-through tourbillon. Two patents. Rhodiated double bridge
construction with black varnish coated upper bridge. Golden balance

Case 48 mm steel
Steel right hand start / stop and reset pushers with "Clous de Paris" high grip pattern
Steel bezel?
Domed sapphire crystal, anti-reflective coating on both faces
See-through sapphire crystal case back

Water
resistance
160 feet / 50 m

Dial Black dial with tachymeter scale on external ring, black snailed minutes and
seconds counters
Rhodiated central hours and minutes hands with black Super-LumiNova coating,
rhodiated chrono, hours, minutes and seconds counters hands, rhodiated numerals

Strap Black croco
Steel folding buckle