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With the Overseas Zero Time Chronograph, Vacheron Constantin honours the rapport that has always linked the Geneva brand to Orologeria Pisa.
The Overseas Zero Time Chronograph is in a special edition of the current Overseas Chronograph collection and comes from a very unique interpretation of time: the ZERO is in fact time's departure point in indicating the hour or when counting chronographic seconds. So, 0 and not the classic 60 is the number at the twelve spot on the rehaut where counting chronographic seconds begins, and Zero Time is the name of the model that appears inside the seconds dial.
The Overseas Zero Time Chronograph is in steel with mechanical movement and automatic winding, offered in a numbered, limited edition of just 20 watches. The number of each watch is engraved on the bottom.
The dial encloses all the personalisation defined together with Orologeria Pisa: the black matt base is without guilloche workmanship, the white counters, the pointers and hands, like the numbers 15/30/45 on the rehaut, are covered in a previously unseen and exclusive yellow luminescent material.
A last sign of the solid partnership between the two historic houses in the watchmaker world: inside the dial, there is space for a hidden inscription: the name PISA discreetly placed between 35 and 40 minutes.
As all prestigious Geneva watch productions, this special edition is also offered in the Vacheron Constantin DreamRoom, the space Orologeria Pisa has dedicated to the brand in its historic address in Via Verri.
Orologeria Pisa, over decades of great commitment, seriousness and experience, has become one of the most representative names in the field of high class watchmaking. An exclusive salon, a meeting point, a sure reference, but also a consultant prepared to satisfy all demands relating to the purchase of such masterpieces.
The history of the Pisa family is based on a passion for top of the range watchmaking and on its careful selection of the brands offered to its clients: values that have created a solid marketing reality, founded on collaboration with the most important watch brands in the world.
Vacheron Constantin, the oldest watch manufacturer, has worked without interruption for 250 years, carrying out an array of procedures for making one watch: the research and development of movements, the design of the models, the component production stages, the finishing and assembly. The craftsmanship takes advantage of watch masters' ability handed down over generations and they follow the antique craft of watchmaking such as bevelling the bridge and plate angles, stretching the sides, decorating the components and, lastly, the patient job of assembling the watch by hand.
Pisa Watchmaking, a business with solid Milanese origins, is the star of an internationally recognized style of selling timepieces, celebrates sixty years of activity. Passion and competence are at the base of in-depth and detailed research work, carried out in collaboration with the most prestigious brands and distinguished by courageous and innovative choices.
This celebration recalls a one-time opportunity that it provided in 2006, with Pisa Watchmaking at the centre of the new commercial dynamic in facing the Four Corners of fashion. To celebrate the continual and constant evolution of these six decades of Pisa Watchmaking, Officine Panarei, historic Italian brand leader in world-wide high range watch making, has made a limited series watch.
The Radiomir Chrono Rattrapante for Pisa Watchmaking presents an entirely new look, with a case 45 millimetres in diameter, with the back plate that shows individual numeration and personalization with the Pisa logo, is offered exclusively in precious metals, for a rarity also shown by the range of offerings: 20 models in white gold with chronographic buttons in rose gold, and 5 watches made with platinum cases. The hands of the Radiomir Chrono Rattrapante are activated by the Panerai OP XVIII gauge, a self-charging mechanism with a 42-hour reserve that, due to the mix of the chronographic functions, uses a double wheel column system.
The face also adopts a different graphic solution with respect to the traditional steel version of present in the Panerai catalogue, with the black bottom with indices and luminescent Arabic numbers is interrupted by contrasting details, pink for the watch in white gold, while the platinum is interpreted with blue elements.
Amongst the surprises reserved to the visitors of the new “Patek Philippe Space”, a special edition commemorative watch: the Calatrava Reference 5296 in rose and white gold, in a new version with a red seconds hand, each in a limited number of 25 pieces.
The choice of one of the classic timepieces of Patek Philippe, the Calatrava, does not only represent a tribute to tradition, of which the emblem is a symbol in itself of the manufacturing (the Cross of Calatrava), but also the confirmation of that which can be defined as the philosophy of the brand, the simplicity of beauty and the beauty of simplicity. Born in 1932, at the height of the Art Deco period and the Bauhaus experience, the Calatrava watch takes its rounded form from its function, which is that of indicating hours, minutes, seconds and the date on a round space on the watch-face with the maximum simplicity and readability. The Ref. 5296, in particular, is one of the most precise models of this “family” of Patek Philippe watches, with its completely smooth and large bezel. In this sense it is a mandatory choice, in line with the architectonic style of the new “Patek Philippe Space”.
Technically, the Calatrava Ref. 5296 is a practical and modern watch. In respect to the other models of this family, it has the advantage of mechanical winding, the height of which is aesthetically balanced by its large diameter of 38 millimetres. In this sense, the choice of this model – with its sapphire crystal case back with the engraving “Pisa Orologeria 2008 Limited Edition” – is not only a commemoration of a glorious past but also a promise for the future.
