The new De Bethune Dream Watch 5 is not your regular timepiece - the minutes, hours and moon phase are all driven by the Calibre DB2144 mechanical hand-wound movement that has 5 days power reserve and everything is wrapped in a futuristic case. Additional details:
De Bethune Dream Watch 5
Transcending horology through artistry in order to leave room for the emotional force and the beauty of the work: such is the message delivered by David Zanetta and Denis Flageollet.
The quest undertaken by De Bethune and expressed through its timepiece is intended to embody 21st century watchmaking.
Understanding historical principles and the works of the Great Masters serves to build contemporary creations and to establish aesthetic codes aimed at perpetuating the timeless nature of watchmaking.
Tomorrow’s watchmaking is the object of daily study and thought for David Zanetta and Denis Flageollet, who interpret it through all the entire range of horological creations of De Bethune. The Dream Watch collection is at once the most extreme and the most accomplished embodiment of this creative folly.
Whether it stems from the past, is expressed in the present or foreshadows the future, the beauty in art is truly eternal.
The Dream Watch 5 aims to nurture this aesthetic ambition thanks to its design codes and the means borrowed from the field of horology favoured by the brand founders. This model positioned on the frontiers of an eclectic watchmaking scene is indeed not necessarily defined as a watch, since its horological attributes – however innovative and high-tech – do not constitute the primary interest of this creation.
An authentic wrist sculpture, Dream Watch 5 derives its unusual shape from its predecessors, from the bridge of Dream Watch 1 through to the case of Dream Watch 4: it encapsulates an ongoing work of research on shapes, materials and colours. In step with successive creations, the design has been pared down to a cambered delta- shaped motif representing the major element of the collection’s aesthetic and more generally that of De Bethune watches.
Taut lines and distinctive depth effects: Dream Watch 5 owes its avant-garde character to aesthetic codes relating to space, movement and speed. Its soft curves, together with the silky cambered shape of the titanium case adorned with a perfectly executed polish, endow it with timeless elegance, while a cabochon-cut ruby gently adorning the crown sets the perfect finishing touch.
The miniaturisation of the mechanism demonstrates a clear-cut determination to give pride of place to design – as admirably demonstrated by the diminutive space allotted to the display of the hours, minutes and moon- phase functions. This aesthetically-oriented approach deliberately and effectively diverts the meaning of conventional horological terms as well as the rational comprehension of the object.
Functions
Hours – minutes – moon phase
Movement
Dream Watch 5 Technical description
Calibre DB2144 – mechanical hand-wound movement Power reserve: 5 days
Case
Delta curve in grade 5 titanium – width 49 mm – length 39 mm – thickness 11 mm
Glass: domed sapphire crystal with double anti-reflective treatment
Crown at 3 o’clock adorned with a 1-carat cabochon-cut ruby
Back: solid, in grade 5 titanium, bearing the signatures of David Zanetta and Denis Flageollet
Display
Jumping-hour aperture at 3 o’clock in polished blued grade 5 titanium Analogue minutes indicator on a rotating disc
Spherical moon-phase indicator at the centre
Strap
Extra-supple alligator leather with pin buckle
DB2144 calibre
Mechanical hand-wound movement
Functions: aperture-type jumping hours – rotating-disc analogue minutes display – spherical moon-phase indication at the centre
Diameter 30mm – 329 parts – hand-crafted finishing and decoration
Self-regulating twin barrel *
Silicon/white gold balance wheel – balance-spring with flat end curve*
Triple pare-chute shock-absorbing system*
Spherical moon-phase indication accurate to a degree of one lunar day every 1,112 years* Silicon escape wheel*
Jewelling: 32 jewels
Frequency: 28,800 vibrations per hour
Power reserve: 5 days
*Manufacture De Bethuneinnovations and registered patents