Élégante 40, Titanium 18038 1812 Aquatimer

1812 Aquatimer

000 USD in period

000 examples are thought to have been made over its 25 year production

highly collected not just for rarity or beauty but as a harbinger of Switzerland’s return to dominance post-quartz crisis in complicated

Élégante 40, Titanium 18038 1812 AquatimerAn lgante 40, featuring a 7. 35mm thin Tortue case and one of the most innovative quartz calibres ever devised. FP Journes calibre 1210 took eight years of development and includes a sleep function, where after 35 minutes of motionlessness, the hands will stop. The opening on the dial is for a small gold oscillating mass, a mechanical element which wakes up its calibre upon picking it back up. The entire dial of this titanium version is luminous, with