With their new Date Turquoise, Moritz Grossmann presents a guilloché dial in the eponymous colour made by Kari Voutilainen’s Comblémine. Such is the distinctiveness of their dials that even without being identified, they are immediately recognisable when brands use them.

The turquoise guilloché dial is solid silver, with annealed blue (blue-on-blue is a more unusual feature) lance-shaped hour, minute and seconds hands. The blue was chosen to match the (jumping) date scale, on which the date is marked by an annealed blue bracket. The minute scale dial numerals are also blue. The hours and minutes dots are impressed onto a silver ring.

The stainless steel case is 41mm (11.8mm thick). There are two crowns – one to wind the watch, and one to set the time and the date, and a pusher to start the watch.

When using the date-setting crown crown at 10 o’clock, the date can be changed by turning the crown either forwards or backwards. The movement carries on running when you are doing this. The time and date can be adjusted just before midnight and straight after midnight, while the movement carries on running.

The manual winding with pusher has a hand setting mechanism, which eliminates two potential problem areas: avoiding the ingress of foreign particles during the adjustment process and altering the hands unintentionally when pushing the crown back into place.

Powering this new model is manually-wound in-house Calibre 100.3, which beats at 18,000 VPH and has a power reserve of 42 hours. It has a two-thirds plate and pillars made of untreated German silver; hand-engraved balance cock and escape-wheel, horizontal Glashütte ribbing, snailing on the ratchet wheel, raised gold chatons with pan-head screws, and the usual shock-resistant Grossmann balance. The screws are annealed by hand in the violet colour associated with Mortiz Grossmann.

Coming on a black hand-stitched alligator leather strap with a steel prong buckle, it is in a limited edition of 18 pieces with an RRP of EUR 42,500.

[Photo credit: Moritz Grossmann]

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