Complications. Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Roue Carree Seconde

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Complications. Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Roue Carree Seconde
04/06/2014
Maurice Lacroix easily refuted the problem that all hourly complications have long been known and invented anything new in our time. In the third millennium, the company introduced the mechanism demonstrating a completely new look at the time.
Maurice Lacroix easily refuted the problem that all hourly complications have long been known and invented anything new in our time. In the third millennium, the company introduced the mechanism demonstrating a completely new look at the time – the first in the clock history of the second wheel of the square shape. This invention, which, by the way, the 10th in the account in the line of innovation Maurice Lacroix, demonstrates the organic combination of design, technical thought and practical visibility. On a gray dial with a spiral engraving Grand Colimacon, an hourly visible hour and minute arrows and a stroke stock indicator.
They serve as a “frame” for the main acting person: the square second indicator at the “6 o’clock” marks controlled by the wheel in the form of a trilister.
Ref.: MP7158-SS001-900
Case: 43 mm, steel, convex sapphire glass with anti-reflective coating, sapphire window on the back cover, dial with Grand Colimacon engraving, hour and minute arrows, as well as a tip of the second wheel with a luminescent coating, crocodile leather strap with calf lining, WR 50 meters
Mechanism: with manual plant ML-156, balance frequency 18 000 pc / hour, stroke 44 hours, platinum gravel pattern Grand Colimacon
Max. Daily move: 9.0 seconds / day *
Min. Balance amplitude: 197O
Isochronous / Positioning Error: 9.0 / 10.0 seconds / day
Price: 418 645 rub.
Where to buy: Conquest salon, ul. Novoslobodskaya, d. 4
Mikhail Goncharov, collector
For me, as for a potential consumer, this model looks somewhat controversial. On the one hand, really the original invention, a patented module, a superbly performed mechanism and an expensive body. But objectively, I understand that the “square wheel” is not included in the list of classic collection complications. And if you consider it an entertainment element, then the price, in my opinion, is quite high.
Rating: 6.
Dmitry Gurzhiy, Founder and Creative Director of Gourji brand
The space is not very rational here: most of the dial occupies a rather dark black surface with minimal marking and thin arrows. To see how “plays” engraving, you need to catch the right corner. I believe in the configuration of the square wheel there is a large design potential, which is not fully disclosed here.
Rating: 7.
Andrei Babanin, watchmaker, restorer, director of the service center “Accurate move”
Causes respect for skill and thoroughness with which the caliber of the pocket watches Unitas was processed and modified. High quality finishes of parts, which is practically brought to perfection. From a collective point of view a very worthy model. True, the module of the square wheel is very energy-consuming, it is necessary to remember constantly about it. And from a practical point of view, I would prefer more contrast markup and stroke stock indicator.
Rating: 8.
Published in the magazine “My Watch” №2-2014
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