A model that by no means needed to go to the neighbors, i.e., fellow Richemont Group manufacturers, for a little bit of inspiration or watchmaking prowess is Roger Dubuis. Their newest devilish machine is the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Diabolus In Machina, and it packs a minute repeater, a flying tourbillon, and a bunch of different mechanical and design quirks.
Specs
Model: Roger Dubuis
Mannequin: Excalibur Diabolus In Machina
Dimensions: 45mm-wide, 16.8mm-thick
Water Resistance: three bar (30 meters)
Case Materials: CarTech Micro-Soften BioDur CCMTM (® within the USA) — sure, that’s the full title of the fabric
Crystal/Lens: mineral crys… Simply kidding, it’s sapphire
Motion: RD107 double-micro-rotor automated caliber with 558 elements, Geneva Hallmark
Features: Minute repeater, flying tourbillon, perform indicator, chiming indicator
Frequency: 3Hz
Energy Reserve: 72 hours
Strap/Bracelet: interchangeable 3D calf leather-based strap with titanium triple-folding buckle
Worth & Availability: $571,000 USD
Reducing straight to the underlying diabolic insanity that defines the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Diabolus In Machina, we’ll say that the model has chosen to tune its minute repeater to the sound of the well-known “Diabolus in Musica” (no, not Slayer’s least-liked studio album), a tritone chord “outlawed in medieval spiritual music as the key key to all intelligent and complicated melodic concord.”
The RD107 has been a defining caliber of Roger Dubuis, a unicorn amongst ultra-high-end calibers. With its symmetrical format of two micro-rotors, two hammers, and one large tourbillon meeting, it’s a unicorn motion, for certain. I distinctly bear in mind seeing one being made — really already on the Witschi machine — within the manufacture a number of years in the past.
Now, nevertheless, the RD107 is packaged in an ice-cool, ultra-modern watch that’s the Excalibur Diabolus in Machina. The dial, or no matter is left of it, anyway, is characterised by concentric spokes for a “destructured structure,” with a seemingly random assortment of Roman numerals additionally thrown into the combo.
Though barely seen in all this diabolic insanity, the RD107 packs a crown perform indicator — “W” for winding and “S” for setting — and someplace across the 11 o’clock place, there’s a chiming indicator that educates the uninformed nouveau riche on the phase of time corresponding with the audible chime, because the minute repeater strikes the hours, quarters, and minutes.
The case is crafted from CarTech Micro-Soften BioDur CCMTM, a non-magnetic cobalt-chromium-molybdenum wrought alloy that, from what I recall from my final hands-on time with a Roger Dubuis in Micro-Soften, makes for one very heavy watch. And the RD107 is one hefty motion, as well. Totally adorned consistent with Poinçon de Genève (Hallmark of Geneva) necessities, the Excalibur Diabolus In Machina appears superb in actual life, I’m certain — too unhealthy all we get to admire it by are these funky-looking however fairly sterile renders that definitely don’t do the actual piece justice. To study all you must know concerning the Hallmark of Geneva, try this text from the time we visited the Roger Dubuis manufacture.
The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Diabolus In Machina would definitely have been a spotlight watch to see at Watches & Wonders 2020. Though it’s a one-of-a-kind piece that’s certain to be offered quickly, I nonetheless have excessive hopes of seeing it within the steel Micro-Soften quickly.
Worth for the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Diabolus In Machina is $571,000 USD, and you’ll find different zany Roger Dubuis watches on the model’s web site.
