The Write Stuff: Carl F. Bucherer Partners with Swiss Penmaker Caran d’Ache for Manero Flyback Signature Edition
Multi-generational family-owned Swiss firms are a relative rarity in the world of luxury goods, but among them are Lucerne-based watchmaker Carl F. Bucherer and Genevan writing instrument purveyor Caran d’Ache. The prestigious maisons have now teamed up to produce the so-called Signature Moments project ? a limited-edition set pairing a specially designed Carl F. Bucherer Manero Flyback timepiece with an equally exclusive, customized Caran d’Ache rollerball pen.
The Carl F. Bucherer Manero Flyback Signature, limited to 188 pieces, will look familiar to connoisseurs of the mainline Manero Flyback models but also immediately striking for its differences. The subdials are executed in a graphite gray, contrasting sharply with the silvered dial, which itself plays host to a multicolored array of hour markers. The colors chosen for the dial details evoke those of the artists’ colored pencils that Caran d’Ache produces as part of its repertoire. Like previous versions of the Manero Flyback, the limited edition has a 43-mm stainless steel case, outfitted with the self-winding Caliber CFB 1970, which boasts a 42-hour power reserve and a column-wheel-driven chronograph with a flyback function. Activated by the vintage-style pump pushers on the side of the case, the stopwatch is able to make multiple time measurements in quick succession, since both chronograph hands ? the center-mounted seconds counter and the small counter of the elapsed-minutes subdia...
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