For watch collectors who can spend hours on end just marvelling the rotating cage of their tourbillon watches, the Daniel Roth Masters Grandes Complications Tourbillon Lumière would be a welcome addition. Housed in a signature DR double ellipse case, the Tourbillon Lumière is truly an objet d'art. The dial becomes part of the movement, with the engraved minute circle offering a subtle clue to its existence. One is confronted by the bare innards of the watch, resplendent in all its nakedness. On closer inspection, the details of finishing befitting of a haute horlogerie manufacture becomes apparent.
Compared to the Tourbillon Lumière, the Perpetual Calendar Equation of Time is more conservative, and only the translucent discs that indicate day and month at 9 and 3 o’clock, as well as the leap-year and date display counter at 6 o’clock offer a glimpse into the complications housed within. The watch also enables one to easily distinguish between mean solar time and true solar time via a patented indicator system.
However, for those who prefer watches with a classical look, the Athys III features Roman hour numerals, a large date display, moon-phase indicator, power-reserve indicator and a three-arm DR seconds hand presented in concentric segments, elegantly arranged on a spacious white-lacquered dial for legible time-telling.
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