Sector dials, with their distinctive segmented layouts designed over a century in the past for improved readability, have a long-lasting enchantment that continues to encourage trendy watchmakers. In the present day, many manufacturers incorporate sector dial watches into their collections, and Louis Erard – based in 1929 through the peak of this design’s reputation – is not any exception. Its Excellence Petite Seconde sequence affords a wide range of vibrant fashions, together with the beautiful Petite Seconde Terracotta, as a recent interpretation of this basic fashion. Louis Erard’s newest launch, Le Régulateur Gravé Noir, builds on the sector dial’s readability and legibility, mixing it with the model’s signature regulator format for a brand new look.
The brand new Louis Erard Régulateur Gravé joins the model’s Noirmont Métiers d’Artwork assortment as a everlasting addition alongside the Regulator with the Grand Feu Enamel dial launched earlier this 12 months as a restricted version; the 2 watches share the identical case design and specs. Manufactured from stainless-steel and totally polished, the three-piece 50m waterproof case measures 39mm in diameter and 12.82mm thick, with a forty five.9mm lug-to-lug. It’s topped with a domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective therapy on either side and encompasses a show caseback. A signature Louis Erard ingredient is the crown embellished with fir tree photographs on its facet and the model’s emblem on high.
The black dial of the Régulateur Gravé Noir proves creativity is on the model’s core, because it merges sector-style segmentation with a regulator show. Minutes are learn by way of the central hand, whereas hours and working seconds seem in vertically aligned sub-dials just under the 12 and above the 6 o’clock markers. Each ingredient is engraved and completed in rose gilt, together with the railroad monitor for minutes – marked at 15 and 45, the hours sub-dial prominently options 12 to indicate midday and midnight, with different indices as blocks of various lengths and thicknesses. The polished, rose-gilt fir tree-shaped fingers are a signature contact, and the dial is left logo-free.
Turning the watch over reveals the Sellita SW266-1 élaboré-grade computerized motion, that includes an openworked rotor with the Louis Erard emblem in black lacquer. This motion runs at 28,800 vibrations/hour and affords a 38-hour energy reserve.
The watch is paired with a beige calf leather-based strap, detailed with tone-on-tone stitching, and fixed with a cultured stainless-steel pin buckle. Now a part of Louis Erard’s everlasting assortment, the Régulateur Gravé Noir is priced at CHF 2,900 (excluding tax).
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