DB25 Moon Phase

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About this reference

Encapsulated in precious materials, an incomparable understanding of the past and present of watchmaking inhabits this radiant piece. Life vibrates everywhere, revealed by the games of light and the purity of its architecture. Roundness, depth and textures collaborate to set the scene of time with an absolute clarity. Resurrected from the past and transposed into modern days, a spherical moon sits among gold stars, crowning this bright theatre. Specification: Case: Rose gold; Case · Diameter: 44 mm; Case · Thickness: 11,2 mm; Case · Lugs: Fixed and hollowed lugs; Case · Crystal: Sapphire crystal (1800 Vickers hardness), with double anti-reflective coating; Case · Case back: Screw-down back in rose gold, polished and open to reveal a linear power reserve indicator; Case: Sapphire crystal (1800 Vickers hardness), with double anti-reflective coating; Function: Hours, Minutes, Spherical moon phase indication at 12 o’clock, Power reserve situated on the back; Calibre · Calibre: DB2105V1; Calibre · Type: Mechanical hand-wound movement; Calibre · Power reserve: 6 days, ensured by a self-regulating twin barrel, De Bethune Innovation (2004); Calibre · Number of parts: 305; Calibre · Jewelling: 29 jewels; Calibre · Diameter: 30 mm; Calibre · Frequency: 28’800 vibrations per hour; Calibre · Adornment: Silver plate and barrel bridge cover adorned with “Côtes De Bethune”; Calibre: Hand snailed barrels; Calibre: Hand-polished, chamfered steel parts; Dial: Silver-toned hand-guilloché, with 12 radiating sectors; Dial: De Bethune star-studded sky in in blue mirror-polished steel set with yellow gold stars with spherical moon-phase indication in palladium and flamed-blued steel with an accuracy of one lunar day every 122 years at 12 o’clock, De Bethune Patent (2004); Dial: Hands :; Dial: Curved, in hand-polished flame-blued steel; Technical features of calibre: Titanium/platinum balance wheel with blom studs, De Bethune Patent (2008); Technical features of calibre: “De Bethune” balance-spring with flat terminal curve, De Bethune Patent (2006); Technical features of calibre: Silicon escape wheel; Technical features of calibre: Spherical moon phase indication accurate to a degree o