VISCONTI BRONZE BRONZO DIVE WATCH LIMITED EDITION SCUBA ABYSS ABYSSUS 3000M

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VISCONTI BRONZE BRONZO DIVE WATCH LIMITED EDITION SCUBA ABYSS ABYSSUS 3000M:
$8750.00

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W108 cuba Abyssus 3000M. Bronze

W108-01-131-1408 Limited Edition to 399 Timepieces

MOVEMENT

Swiss Made Soprod SOP 9340/A10-2 Automatic,

31 jewels, MHVJ assortment, Glucydur balance wheel,

28.800 A/h; adjusted to 5 positions, average rate -5 +10

sec./day; soignée fi nish, self-winding mass with engraved

Visconti logo; power reserve: approx. 42 hours.

DIMENSIONS

Ø 25.60 mm.; thickness 5.10 mm.

FUNCTIONS

Hours, minutes, sweep seconds; date window at 2

o’clock; power reserve display at 11 o’clock.

CASE

Aluminium bronze monobloc case, micro-shot blasted

and satin-fi nished. Dimensions (approx): diameter 45.00

mm; overall dimensions at crown 54.40 mm; height

57.90 mm; thickness 17.50 mm; bayonet-mounted crown

at 2 o’clock with patented system for unlocking from

movement. Four steel lugs, satin-fi nished. 5.00 mm thick,

fl at-convex sapphire watch glass, rotating aluminium

bronze bezel with engraved time scale and micro-dot

in luminescent material at 0 o’clock, with external

aluminium bronze saw-tooth and sliding rotation bloc at

4 o’clock. Automatic helium escape valve at 6 o’clock.

WATERPROOF TO

300 ATM

DIAL

Black/blue with shiny blue detailing, luminescent

indexes in two colours, minutes scale with bars on

inclined rehaut.

HANDS

Hands to an exclusive Visconti design: hours, minutes,

sweep seconds hand with triangle. Luminescent coating.

Power reserve hand with orange varnish.

STRAP AND CLASP

In water-resistant sharkskin; exclusive Visconti satinfi

nish stainless steel clasp; alternatively, aluminium

bronze bracelet with safety clasp

MSRP is $8750

This watch is made in Switzerland.

FLORENCE AND TIMEPIECES 1353-2013 1353-2013 Florence is a universally acknowledged synonym for culture. Humanism and the Renaissance have marked the city’s history, pegging it to the names of artists known throughout the world, men of the caliber of Giotto, Brunelleschi, Leonardo and Michelangelo. What is perhaps less well known is the close link between those old masters’ artistic creativity and their interest in what we know today as science and technology, which in their day was part and parcel of man’s all-embracing intellectual achievement. But Florence is also the city of guilds and trades, of craftsmen and travelers, all of whose activities depended to a large extent on the precise measurement of the passage of time. Indeed it comes as no surprise to learn that Florence was one of the first cities in Europe to build a mechanical clock for its citizens’ benefit, installed by Niccolò di Bernardo on the tower of Palazzo Vecchio on 25 March 1353, although another famous Florentine, Dante Alighieri, possibly the first person ever to write about them, must have seen similar clocks when he penned the X and XXIV Canti of his Paradiso.

Building a mechanical clock required not only technical skill in the materials and operations involved but also a knowledge of mathematics and astronomy, thus falling exactly on the borderline between craftsmanship and humanism in the broadest and loftiest sense. Thus Florence was almost inevitably fated to become one of the most important focal points in the construction of clocks in the Renaissance, with Brunelleschi cooperating on the clock for the tower of the Palazzo dei Vicari in Scarperia in1445, with Leonardo studying the escapement system, and with an entire dynasty of clockmakers in the Della Volpaia family. It even has a city street known as Via dell’Oriolo, or Clock Street, dedicated to the tradition, and Palazzo Vecchio contains a Sala dell’Orologio, or Clock Room, named after the timepiece kept there for over a hundred years until the early 17th century. This skill in the construction of clocks and scientific instruments continued until well into the 19th century: one has but to think of the Officine Panerai founded in 1860, which supplied the Italian Navy with its first clock in 1925 right up to the recent sale of the Richemont group’s brand, or of the Officine Galileo, founded by astronomer Giovanni Battista Amici in 1862. More recently, after World War I, the ICO (Industria Casse Orologi) founded in 1939 has been making watch components for over sixty years and complete watches for the last twenty-five. Today, as the trajectory of the Officine Panerai seems fated to repeat itself, with the interruption and dispersal of its legacy of tradition and skill, Visconti is launching an ambitious project for the recovery and enhancement of this unique and distinctive Florentine experience, the latest embodiment of over six centuries of precision mechanics and fine watchmaking, creating a new pole of excellence.

1988 VISCONTI REVIVES THE ART OF WRITING IN FLORENCE

1988 saw the birth of Visconti, the firm that brought writing back to Florence after a period of oblivion lasting over thirty years. The company, under its founder’s guiding hand for twenty-five years, has turned Florentine craftsmanship into a icon of its output accompanying its fundamental values of passion, art and technology. To celebrate this important anniversary, Visconti has picked up the beacon of Floretine heritage. Launching into a new adventure with exactly the same pioneering determination and enthusiasm as it did twenty-five years ago, it has decided to bring watchmaking back to Florence to stand proudly alongside the art of penmanship. Its winning business model is the very same one that it has applied to writing, based on the rediscovery of skills and expertise and the organization of people by motivating them with long-term goals under the artistic and technical guidance of Dante Del Vecchio, and with the benefit of Visconti’s boundless creativity.

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