DB26

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About this reference

A contemporary looking timepiece with an uncluttered appearance, the refined dial reveals the demanding mastery of the various trades practiced in the De Bethune workshops. At first glance, you can’t help but notice the sapphire hands, ringed in hand blued steel. Imagined and designed watch hands of perfect transparency. Enabling the owner of this timepiece to read all the indications of this perpetual calendar quickly regardless of the position of the hands. Specification: Case: White gold; Case · Diameter: 44,4 mm; Case · Thickness: 16,10 mm; Case · Lugs: Floating lugs in titanium, De Bethune Patent (2006); Case · Crystal: Sapphire crystal (1800 Vickers hardness), with double anti-reflective coating; Case · Case back: Sapphire crystal (1800 Vickers hardness), with double anti-reflective coating; Function: Hours, Minutes, Date at 9 o’clock, Perpetual calendar indicating days at 11 o’clock, Months at 7 o’clock, De Bethune spherical moon-phase indication at 3 o’clock; Calibre · Calibre: DB2005; Calibre · Type: Mechanical manual-winding calibre; Calibre · Power reserve: 5 days, ensured by a self-regulating twin barrel, De Bethune Innovation (2004); Calibre · Number of parts: 348; Calibre · Jewelling: 29 jewels; Calibre · Diameter: 30 mm; Calibre · Frequency: 28’800 vibrations per hour; Calibre · Adornment: Hand-polished and chamfered steel parts; Calibre: “Côte De Bethune”; Dial: Silver-toned with apertures indicating days of the week and months, subdial indicating days of the month at 9 o’clock; Dial: De Bethune star-studded sky in flame-blued steel; Dial: Spherical moon phase indication in palladium and flame-blued steel with an accuracy of one lunar day every 122 years at 6 o’clock – De Bethune Patent (2004); Dial: Leap year at 3 o’clock; Dial: Hands :; Dial: Sapphire Crystal wrapped with flamed-blued steel; Technical features of calibre: Titanium and 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