Roger Dubuis has entered another year of its high-profile partnerships with Italian automaker Lamborghini; its racing team, Lamborghini Squadra Corse; and its official tire provider, Pirelli ? and a distinctive horological-automotive design synergy once again dominated the Swiss watchmaker’s new offerings at SIHH 2019. Notable among these are two new models in its recently introduced Excalibur Huracán collection, both equipped with an all-new in-house movement and one outfitted with a special Pirelli-branded rubber strap.
The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Huracán is powered by a new in-house movement, Caliber RD630.
Roger Dubuis’s Caliber RD630, the second developed by the company in cooperation with Lamborghini Squadra Corse, makes it debut in the latest version of the Excalibur Huracán, with a 45-mm titanium case, and it might be even more evocative of Lamborghini motor-racing DNA than the first. Heavily skeletonized like most modern Roger Dubuis calibers, it has a 12º tilted balance wheel, an innovation first used by the brand in its eye-popping Quatuor timepiece (which actually had four of them) in 2014; a honeycomb structure reminiscent of Lamborghini grilles built into the mainplate; and a hexagonal date window at 6 o’clock with distinctive speedometer-style numerals. The inclined sprung balance has been repositioned at 12 o’clock for maximum exposure on the front of the openworked dial, along with a new strut-bar-shaped bridge that echoes those o...