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Saphirus Glaciale

Saphirus Glaciale

€7.500,00 EUR
€7.500,00 EUR
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Saphirus Glaciale is a one-of-a-kind piece: a single example, impossible to repeat. The case, caseback and crystal are made entirely of lab-grown sapphire, a transparent, extremely hard material that turns the watch into a 48 mm block of light. Inside, the multi-layered dial is hand-painted in shades of blue, like a surface of ice seen up close.

The Swiss automatic movement stays visible from every side through the sapphire: not a caseback that opens onto a movement, but a whole watch that lets the light pass through it. Luminescent accents on the dial bring the scene to life when darkness falls.

Completing the piece are two genuine leather straps Made in Italy and a wood-and-leather case. An object that isn't one model in a series, but a single example in the world.

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Technical Specifications

Type: one-of-a-kind, 1/1
Diameter: 48 mm
Thickness: 14.5 mm
Case: lab-grown sapphire
Caseback: lab-grown sapphire, exhibition movement
Crystal: lab-grown sapphire
Dial: multi-layered, hand-painted in shades of blue, with luminescent pigments
Movement: Sellita SW300-1 skeleton automatic, Swiss Made
Hands: with luminescent pigments
Straps: two in genuine leather Made in Italy, 24/20 mm
Case box: wood and leather

Sapphire and hand-painting: one of a kind in the world

The case, caseback and crystal of Saphirus Glaciale are made entirely of lab-grown sapphire: an extremely hard material, second only to diamond, almost impossible to work in this form. The result is a transparent watch that looks carved from ice.

On this base, the multi-layered dial is hand-painted in shades of blue, layer after layer: work that no example can replicate identically. This is why Glaciale isn't a mass-produced model, but a one-of-a-kind piece, the only one in the world. Whoever wears it owns something that exists on no other wrist.

The Swiss heart, on show from every side

Inside Saphirus Glaciale works a Swiss automatic skeleton movement, a Sellita SW300-1 whose parts are openworked to reveal how it runs. In an ordinary watch the movement is glimpsed through the caseback; here, with case, caseback and crystal all in transparent sapphire, you watch it from every side. Light passes through the entire watch and reveals its mechanics in motion, wound by the wrist, without a battery.