Gaël Petermann and Florian Bédat shared watchmaking school years in Geneva before starting their own Petermann Bédat company in 2017. With the development of their first three-hand hand-wound movement, they started the path for the creation of their first timepiece, the 1967. The Petermann Bédat 1967 will be produced in two 10-piece limited editions in rose gold or white gold with a price of Swiss Francs 59,800 before taxes.
Gaël Petermann and Florian Bédat shared watchmaking school years in Geneva and then a common working experience, among the others, at A. Lange & Söhne in Glasshütte before starting their own Petermann Bédat watch company in 2017.
With the development of a hand-wound movement, they started the path for the creation of their first timepiece, the in-house developed and manufactured 1967, a three-hand model that they have recently unveiled.
The 1967 name was chosen not because the two founders were born in that year - they are both much younger being born in the 1990s - but because in that year the first quartz movement was launched. As you might expect, the new watch is not powered by a quartz but has one thing in common with it: the seconds hand advances in full steps of one second instead of the more usually smooth sweeping action of mechanical seconds, a feature that in the high-end watchmaking world is often referred to as "dead beat seconds".
To achieve this technical feat, their manufacture Calibre 171 is equipped with the Gafner system (from the name of its inventor Robert Gafner) that is composed of a special wheel and a very complex anchor that must be hand-crafted with a precision of one hundredth of a millimeter.
Equipped with a black polished swan neck regulator to adjust the rate, the movement beats at a frequency of 2.5 Hz (18,000 vibrations per hour) and offers 36 hours of power reserve. Every detail is meticulously finished using traditional Haute Horlogerie techniques.
Particularly notable is the dead beat second bridge featuring a deep matte finish obtained using "poudre du levante" (baking powder) with olive oil. All edges are chamfered and polished by hands.
Framed by a classic round case measuring 39 mm x 10.70 mm and protected by a convex sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment, the dial displays several elements of the movement, like the rubies or the time setting components that, with their black polished finish, stand out beautifully at 3 o'clock.
The hour, minute and second hands are manually bevelled and polished. The outer track is ideal to highlight the jump of the slimmer hand from one second to the other.
The Petermann Bédat 1967 will be produced in two 10-piece limited editions in rose gold or white gold with a price of Swiss Francs 59,800 before taxes. petermann-bedat.ch
The 1967 name was chosen not because the two founders were born in that year - they are both much younger being born in the 1990s - but because in that year the first quartz movement was launched. As you might expect, the new watch is not powered by a quartz but has one thing in common with it: the seconds hand advances in full steps of one second instead of the more usually smooth sweeping action of mechanical seconds, a feature that in the high-end watchmaking world is often referred to as "dead beat seconds".
To achieve this technical feat, their manufacture Calibre 171 is equipped with the Gafner system (from the name of its inventor Robert Gafner) that is composed of a special wheel and a very complex anchor that must be hand-crafted with a precision of one hundredth of a millimeter.
Equipped with a black polished swan neck regulator to adjust the rate, the movement beats at a frequency of 2.5 Hz (18,000 vibrations per hour) and offers 36 hours of power reserve. Every detail is meticulously finished using traditional Haute Horlogerie techniques.
Particularly notable is the dead beat second bridge featuring a deep matte finish obtained using "poudre du levante" (baking powder) with olive oil. All edges are chamfered and polished by hands.
Framed by a classic round case measuring 39 mm x 10.70 mm and protected by a convex sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment, the dial displays several elements of the movement, like the rubies or the time setting components that, with their black polished finish, stand out beautifully at 3 o'clock.
The hour, minute and second hands are manually bevelled and polished. The outer track is ideal to highlight the jump of the slimmer hand from one second to the other.
The Petermann Bédat 1967 will be produced in two 10-piece limited editions in rose gold or white gold with a price of Swiss Francs 59,800 before taxes. petermann-bedat.ch
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