Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton High-End Watches

The Roger Dubuis high-end watches have several recognizable characteristic details of design: a large round-shaped case with triple lugs, notched bezel and skeletonized movement by which any dial looks absolutely unnecessary. Wheels, gears, springs, teeth, bridges, jewels and other structural elements of this mechanism are completely visible in an effort to create an eye-catching piece for enthusiasts of watchmaking art. The Excalibur Automatic Skeleton luxury watch continues the Roger Dubuis tradition but with some differences in approach. This new model with avant-garde aesthetic image will be offered at a lower price than the Roger Dubuis premium-class model with tourbillon.

Although, many watchmakers say that other complications, including a "simple" chronograph (when it is properly designed), are much more difficult to create from scratch than the tourbillon, for many consecutive years the last one has been considered to be one of the absolute pinnacles of Haute Horlogerie. Anyway, the tourbillon has always been a mandatory part of the top-line models produced by luxury watch brands, as well as innovative materials and high-quality finishes. Now another trend is coming, when some brands relieve its models of the tourbillon, but leave other design elements that have actually made these watches popular unchanged. This allows brands to expand the segment and offer their models to a wider audience. Richard Mille , perhaps, can be considered one of the most successful brands that began offering some of its best watches without a tourbillon, for example, the Baby Nadal and Baby Bubba models.

The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton model may seem quite familiar with the terms of external characteristics - to the untrained eye this designer watch looks deceptively similar to an in-house model with a tourbillon. Despite this fact, the one who is more intimately acquainted with little details and mechanisms of fine watchmaking will notice a key difference immediately. The tourbillon with its spinning cage located at the 8 o'clock position has been replaced with the balance wheel hold by skeletonized bridges and a mirror treated plate. The RD820SQ mechanism consists of 167 parts, most of which have been covered with gray rhodium to create already familiar to us dark technical image, which has become accustomed thanks to suchlike Roger Dubuis fine watches.

The skeletonization also includes carved bridges, the most distinctive of which is the one located at the 4 o'clock position. Another one relatively rare and intriguing part of the watch design is the micro rotor set at the top left side of the dial. Photos do not convey how big a piece of metal it is made from. The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton luxury watch is issued in 18 karat pink gold and has 42 mm in diameter, thereby making this model more wearable than its famous "big brothers" from some collections (several versions with tourbillon measure 45 mm in diameter). This piece of high-end watches will be presented at SIHH-2015. The retail price will be $83,200.

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