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Twenty-8-Eight Collection
DeWitt's Twenty-8-Eight Collection is the most elegant one created by the manufacture. Here, the mechanical motive of the imperial columns is less pronounced and instead leaves room for more architecturally-inspired Art Deco elements, American Art Deco specifically.
BTW, did you know where the unwieldy name of this collection comes from? It is because Mr de Witt conceived and sketched out the collection for the first time one August 28...
This year we did not see a new watch or a new movement but refined new dials for two watches:
First, we take a look at the impressive Twenty-8-Eight Tourbillon
The new dials of the Twenty-8-Eight Tourbillon have a two part design. On the upper part, the two vertical appliques are inspired by a very masculine
and imposing Art Deco construction with a futurist touch. The lower part of the dial opens onto a beautiful large circular-grained aperture which frames
the heart of the movement displaying the visible beating of the tourbillon.
Under natural light you are in for quite a fireworks:
DeWitt included its in-house tourbillon movement DW8028 is a rather classic construction and relies on tried and tested ancestral technical parameters: 18,000 Vph and 72 hours of power reserve. A small plaque bearing the signature of the master watchmaker is to be found on the back of the watch, on the barrel bridge:
The watch overall exudes a cool and admirably arrogant impression. This sounds like a critique but in fact this is a great praise. It also works well with different attires:
The second watch that got new clothes was the Automatic. It was dressed in warm and tasty chocolate colours.
Please take another look at the dial work in the picture above. DeWitt spent a significant time in design and execution, and is able to produce its dials in-house from the brass blank to the final dial, covering guillochage, painting/surface treatments, printing, applying the indices etc. And it shows, just admire the excellent guillochage!
The case is the typical Twenty-8-Eigth Collection in red gold.
Its alternating polished columns over a matte case band give a strong contrast:
One the back you see a highly reworked ETA 2890 movement...
... with an in-house rotor featuring the company's WW logo:
It is one of the most reticent way to wear a DeWitt watch.
First, we take a look at the impressive Twenty-8-Eight Tourbillon
The new dials of the Twenty-8-Eight Tourbillon have a two part design. On the upper part, the two vertical appliques are inspired by a very masculine
and imposing Art Deco construction with a futurist touch. The lower part of the dial opens onto a beautiful large circular-grained aperture which frames
the heart of the movement displaying the visible beating of the tourbillon.
The new colour we were shown was a glacier-coloured PVD coating entirely developed in-house (yes, DW employs a chemical wizard...):
Under natural light you are in for quite a fireworks:
As you can see, a similar effect is also visible from the sides. Note how much finer (and large in quantity) the columns are.
Turning the watch slowly over might well rise your blood pressure and your heart beat:
DeWitt included its in-house tourbillon movement DW8028 is a rather classic construction and relies on tried and tested ancestral technical parameters: 18,000 Vph and 72 hours of power reserve. A small plaque bearing the signature of the master watchmaker is to be found on the back of the watch, on the barrel bridge:
The watch overall exudes a cool and admirably arrogant impression. This sounds like a critique but in fact this is a great praise. It also works well with different attires:
The second watch that got new clothes was the Automatic. It was dressed in warm and tasty chocolate colours.
Milk chocolate on the outer, intensive dark chocolate on the inner dial perimeter:
Please take another look at the dial work in the picture above. DeWitt spent a significant time in design and execution, and is able to produce its dials in-house from the brass blank to the final dial, covering guillochage, painting/surface treatments, printing, applying the indices etc. And it shows, just admire the excellent guillochage!
Naturally, such a three-dimensional structure changes appearance depending on light:
The case is the typical Twenty-8-Eigth Collection in red gold.
Its alternating polished columns over a matte case band give a strong contrast:
One the back you see a highly reworked ETA 2890 movement...
... with an in-house rotor featuring the company's WW logo:
It is one of the most reticent way to wear a DeWitt watch.
This message has been edited by Ornatus-Mundi on 2013-03-22 09:38:20
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