Tourbillon Barometre

Tourbillon

The Chronograph to look out for is here. For the watch collector and connoisseur, Da Vindice's Race Challenge introduces a unique design that is completed with a skeleton case-back.

The timepiece was conceived for everyday use. Its barrel shape offers a dial that combines modernity and tradition. Carved out side grills perfectly join the case, while Da Vindice's Fleur-de-Lis emblem formalizes the trademark by revealing itself on the hands. The day of the week aperture is placed at 3 o'clock, and the date at 8 o'clock.

Elegant and noble, the Chronograph Race Challenge comes in four versions that perfectly link the past with the present.

Race Challenge Chronograph

Race Challenge Chronograph GT

The Chronograph to look out for is here. For the watch collector and connoisseur, Da Vindice's Race Challenge GT introduces a unique design that is completed with a skeleton case-back.

The timepiece was conceived for everyday use. Its barrel shape offers a dial that combines modernity and tradition. Carved out side grills perfectly join the case, while Da Vindice's Fleur-de-Lis emblem formalizes the trademark by revealing itself on the hands. The day of the week aperture is placed at 3 o'clock, and the date at 8 o'clock.

Elegant and noble, the Chronograph Race Challenge GT comes in four versions that perfectly link the past with the present.

Traditional watchmaking of the highest caliber and excellence is revived in Da Vindice's « Tourbillon Vindex » collection.

The complication in this timepiece adds a touch of sophistication within the dial, which features Roman numerals applied with a modern spirit. The Vindex TOURBILLON is equipped with a power reserve at 10 o'clock, a date indication at 1 o'clock and a tourbillon at 6 o'clock.

This exclusive model is water-resistant to 3 ATM. The tourbillon is decorated with Da Vindice's emblem, the Fleur-de-Lis, and the sides of the case are adorned with finely carved out grills that perfectly complete the watch case.

Whether one is drawn to the pink gold version combined with a chocolate brown case, the platinum combined with a black case, or the all-black PVD case, each model comes with a crocodile strap that completes its elegance.

The Vindex Collection’s Tourbillon Barometer features a mechanical automatic-winding movement, endowed with a central tourbillon and an aneroid barometer. Despite its mechanical complexity, the Tourbillon Barometer ensures water resistance to 3 ATM.

While the barometer was first introduced around the year 1840 and contributed to the birth of meteorology, Da Vindice revisits this instrument bringing to bear its new position at the heart of a timekeeper.

The type of barometer used in this watch is an aneroid barometer. The atmospheric pressure is managed in a capsule, known as a « Vidie Capsule », hermetically sealed with the air partially removed from it. The walls of the capsule are held apart by a spring. Small changes in atmospheric pressure cause the capsule to expand or contract, and a mechanical system can amplify the movements resulting from the changes in pressure to make them visible on the dial.

The empty zone influencing the aneroid capsule is placed at 10 o’clock, this way the watch is more reactive to ambient air than to body temperature.

The thickness of the watch case has been thoroughly calculated in order to obtain the intrinsic insulation and correct functioning of the barometer system as a whole.

A combination of creativity, technique, and spirit of innovation defines Da Vindice’s first Vindex Collection. The Vindex « Tourbillon-Barometer » is a limited edition timepiece that was unveiled as a world premier ‘Grand Complication’ in 2010 at the prestigious Grand-Prix d’Horlogerie in Geneva.