WatchTime New York, America?s largest luxury watch show, returns to the Big Apple in just a few days. As we countdown to the big event, taking place at Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 21-23, we?ll be previewing many of the new watches that guests will discover there. Bovet will be joining the event this year, with the brand celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2022. Marking the incredible milestone, the brand is reflecting back on some of its most impressive watches from recent times, among them being the Bovet Récital 22 Grand Récital.

The watch saw its release in May of 2018, with it serving as the third and final part of a trilogy of timepieces that began with the Récital 18 Shooting Star Tourbillon in 2016 and followed by the Récital 20 Astérium in 2017. This triad of timepieces formed what the brand then described as a ?poetic watchmaking narrative? that was only completed by the astronomical Récital 22 Grand Récital.
The 46.3 by 19.6 mm case functions as a horological tellurium including a stunning, hemispherical, birds-eye view of the Earth at 12 o?clock and a flying tourbillon at 6 o?clock that represents the sun with a carriage bridge acting as fiery rays shooting out of the sun?s body. Finally, a spherical moon orbits the Earth according to the exact length of its synodic period of 29.53 days.

The half-Earth that displays the Northen hemisphere rotates on its own axis and demonstrates the passage of time on a natural 24-hour...