A World Premier, a Watch with Jumping Heliocentric Display
Called Inti, in reference to the Inca God of sun, the sun-shaped hour display is unique. It is the first hour display over 24 hours that shows the sun’s path and the alternation of night and day. Simple to read yet fitted with a complex mechanism, this piece in Frédéric Jouvenot’s Solar Deity collection has two faces, corresponding to the day and night cycles. For the first time in watchmaking history, a timepiece displays the time without conventional hands, numerals or disks. Each hour is represented by a radioconcentric sunbeam, i.e. starting from the centre and radiating towards the edge of the dial. The twelve sunbeams show the path of the sun on the dial while indicating the hour to come and the past hour. At mid-day, all the sunbeams are golden to represent daylight. At that precise moment, the dial represents the sun at its zenith. As time passes, the rays become black, one after another, clockwise; the dial darkens and announes
oncoming night. Midnight is represented by twelve dark beams reflecting in the night. To symbolise the return to light, the sunbeams take turns to pivot again until mid-day, thus completing a full 24 hour cycle
Telling the time remains instinctive. Each hour keeps its conventional position and the minutes are indicated by a central cartouche fitted with an index that completes a revolution on the fixed minute disc. The display maintains the conventional angular gap of a watch for instinctive reading.
The whole complication mechanism is enclosed in the central 12 mm diameter and 5 mm high case which contains no fewer than 100 parts, including 24 rubies which will activate the hour’s jumping beams.
CONSUL Heritage 7315.03.AG.11.16
Technical Specifications
- High resistant polished stainless steel case
- 42 mm case diameter
- Swiss made automatic movement
- 43 hours power reserve
- Water resistant to 30 M - 3 ATM (100 feet)
- Curved sapphire crystal
- Screw-in crown
- Display by means of hands, hours, minutes and seconds
- Day – Date – Month
- Moon phase
- Black dial
- Stainless steel bracelet with double butterfly buckle and 2 safety pushers or assorted leather band with double butterfly buckle
- Screw-in back cover
- See-through back sapphire crystal with medallion
- Swiss made
- Limited edition to 888 pieces
- 12 months international warranty
