The new TOURBILLON Tremblage by Moritz Grossmann features a hand-crafted dial that may be familiar to you. This new limited edition comes in rose gold and white gold versions in 44.5mm sized cases (thickness of 13.9mm), both of which are limited to eight watches each.

As we’ve mentioned before, ‘tremblage’ refers to the manner in which the hand-decorated dial’s frosted-looking texture has been achieved – through thousands of hand-engraved indentations.

The new TOURBILLON Tremblage’s dial is made of German silver. Alongside the use of tremblage are matte opaline sub dials and outer minute ring. All the dial parts are galvanised to achieve the anthracite colour. The white Arabic numerals are printed for both variants, and the hands are either gold or polished steel depending on the case metal. Both the crown to wind the watch and the pusher are both gold.

Functionally, alongside the off-centre hour at 3 o’clock, minutes, and a (stop) seconds display at 9 o’clock is a large (16mm) flying three-minute tourbillon at 6 o’clock with stop-second function which has a V-shaped balance bridge, filigree cage top and two triangular pillars. In the tourbillon is a distinctly (patented) Grossmann feature which you may have heard about before – according to them, for the stop-second function, in order to properly stop the balance when doing time setting, the stop device needs to avoid the frame pillars, and this is best done with an elastic brush made of human hair which goes past the pillar and slows the balance down.

Powering the new TOURBILLON Tremblage is the manually-wound in-house Calibre 103.0. A pillar movement with plate and frame pillars made of untreated German silver, ARCAP wheels, an out-sized oscillator mounted on one side and Grossmann balance, it beats at 18,000 VPH and has a power reserve of 72 hours. The plates and the tourbillon cock have hand-engraved Glashütte ribbing. The polished screws are set in gold chatons and the jewels are white sapphire.

The rose gold model comes on a brown alligator strap, whereas the white gold version comes on a black alligator strap.

The Australian pricing for the TOURBILLON Tremblage rose gold is $360,000 (CHF 237,400) and for the Tremblage white gold, $355,000 (CHF 235,600).

[Photo credit: Moritz Grossmann]

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