WatchTime New York, America?s largest luxury watch show, returns to the Big Apple in October. As we countdown to the big event, taking place at Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 26-27, we?ll be previewing many of the new watches that guests will discover there. Today we?re taking a look at the Bovet Récital 22 Grand Récital.
Bovet Récital 22 Grand Récital
This latest release from Bovet, announced in May, is actually 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 forms what the brand describes as a ?poetic watchmaking narrative? that is 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 cycle. The surface of the Earth is engraved and hand-painted giving the oceans, mountains, deserts, and forests an unmistakable sense of realism. For the first time, Bovet included luminescence in the miniature painti...