Carl Friedrich Bucherer established his first watch and jewelry boutique in the Swiss city of Lucerne in 1888, making 2018 the 130th anniversary of his eponymous company, which in 1919 also began making its own luxury timepieces. With the release of the Heritage Tourbillon Double Peripheral Limited Edition ? the flagship piece of its new Heritage collection, announced this week in New York ? the modern Carl F. Bucherer watch brand pays an impressive homage to both its watchmaking history and to the ancient baroque city of its origins.
The Carl F. Bucherer Heritage Tourbillon Double Peripheral is limited to 88 pieces.
Limited to just 88 pieces (a reference to the year of the firm’s founding), the watch has a 42.5-mm-diameter case made of 18k rose gold, with a domed, nonreflective sapphire crystal over the dial, an additional sapphire window in the caseback, and a water resistance of 30 meters. Through that crystal-clear caseback, one can view the stunningly decorative movement, a specially embellished version of Bucherer’s recently released, in-house-developed Caliber CFB T3000, which is self-winding by means of a peripheral rotor and incorporates a tourbillon cage that is also supported peripherally, by three ceramic ball bearings. In this version, the movement bridge, which covers nearly the entire back of the movement, aside from the tourbillon cage, is crafted from 18k white gold and hand-engraved with an illustration of the Lucerne cityscape. The tourbillon ...