{"id":6857,"date":"2014-01-09T14:59:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T13:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preprod.gmtmag.com\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2016-06-01T08:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T07:28:04","slug":"de-bethune-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/de-bethune-29.html","title":{"rendered":"De Bethune : World-exclusive understatement"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Tourbillon R\u00e9gulateur DB16<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Case\u2009:<\/strong> platinum, cone-shaped lugs, sapphire back <strong>Diameter\u2009:<\/strong> 43mm<strong> Movement\u2009:<\/strong> mechanical hand-wound (Calibre DB2509, 96h power reserve), 499 parts, 30\u201d silicon\/titanium 36,000 vph tourbillon, hand-crafted finishing and decoration including C\u00f4tes de Gen\u00e8ve, 7 patents (see text)<strong> Functions\u2009:<\/strong> hours, minutes, jumping seconds, date, perpetual calendar, spherical moon-phase indicator, age of the moon and leap years, tourbillon with 30\u201d display of the seconds, power-reserve indication<strong> Dial\u2009:<\/strong> silver-toned with radiating hand-crafted guilloch\u00e9 pattern<strong> Water resistance\u2009:<\/strong> 30m <strong>Strap\u2009:<\/strong> extra-supple alligator leather with pin buckle 5-piece limited series<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contenu_article\">Great news for collectors\u2009: the <strong>Tourbillon R\u00e9gulateur DB16<\/strong> now comes in a five-piece platinum run. This relatively understated exterior contrasts with the extraordinary horological content of this perpetual calendar with deadbeat seconds model, of which the 30-second silicon and titanium tourbillon beating at 36,000 vibrations per hour is visible only through the case-back. This demurely concealed marvel is even more impressive when one considers that its 63 parts weigh just 0.18 grams. By way of a reminder, this model epitomising the expertise of the <strong>De Bethune<\/strong> R&amp;D lab is protected by no less than seven patents\u2009: on the front, its famous spherical moon-phase indication and the central jumping seconds\u2009; and on the back a self-regulating double barrel, a silicon and white gold balance-wheel with a flat terminal curve, a 30-second silicon-titanium De Bethune 36,000 vph tourbillon in silicon and titanium, a silicon escape-wheel, and a retrograde age-of-the-moon indication. An expert eye will note at first glance the iconic De Bethune cone-shaped lugs, as well as the hand-polished and flame-blued curved steel hands.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for collectors\u2009: the <strong>Tourbillon R\u00e9gulateur DB16<\/strong> now comes in a five-piece platinum run. This relatively understated exterior contrasts with the extraordinary horological content of this perpetual calendar with deadbeat seconds model, of which the 30-second silicon and titanium tourbillon beating at 36,000 vibrations per hour is visible only through the case-back. This demurely concealed marvel is even more impressive when one considers that its 63 parts weigh just 0.18 grams. By way of a reminder, this model epitomising the expertise of the <strong>De Bethune<\/strong> R&amp;D lab is protected by no less than seven patents\u2009: on the front, its famous spherical moon-phase indication and the central jumping seconds\u2009; and on the back a self-regulating double barrel, a silicon and white gold balance-wheel with a flat terminal curve, a 30-second silicon-titanium De Bethune 36,000 vph tourbillon in silicon and titanium, a silicon escape-wheel, and a retrograde age-of-the-moon indication. An expert eye will note at first glance the iconic De Bethune cone-shaped lugs, as well as the hand-polished and flame-blued curved steel hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}