De Bethune and Swizz Beatz Launch Dream Watch 5 Tourbillon ?Season 1? at WatchTime New York 2021
WatchTime New York 2021 is in full swing, and avant-garde watchmaker De Bethune is drawing admiration with the unveiling today of its latest limited edition, the Dream Watch 5 Tourbillon ?Season 1.? The new watch follows a year of impressive releases by the brand, including the travel-focused DB25GMT Starry Varius, interstellar DB28XP Meteorite, and the attention-commanding DB Kind of Two Tourbillon DB29.
The DW5 Tourbillon ?Season 1? is also notably the first release by De Bethune since news broke in late August of pre-owned watch reseller WatchBox?s purchase of a majority stake in the company, signaling for now that the creative and boundary pushing design work De Bethune is best known for is unlikely to slow as a result of the change.
Like all De Bethune timepieces, the latest release has a story behind it, in this case a particularly fascinating one. As the brand tells it, sometime last year the rapper and record producer Swizz Beatz spontaneously reached out to De Bethune and posed its watchmakers a challenge: create a totally different Dream Watch 5, one that would newly convey the brand?s ?resolutely futuristic vision of the watchmaking art.? That initial conversation led to an ongoing discussion, ultimately inspiring the brand to partner with Swizz Beatz and take up his horological challenge.
Swizz Beatz, image via fatima
To meet that mark, De Bethune founder and watchmaker Denis Flageollet endeavored to create a watch that joined the brand?s existi...
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