Whirlwind in a Web: RJ Teams with Marvel for Arraw Spider-Man Tourbillon
We might want to declare #spideyfriday here at WatchTime.com. One week after covering the new Spider-Man watch released by Citizen, we find Marvel’s wondrous web-slinger once again lending his likeness to a timepiece, this one on the highest echelon of haute horlogerie. The Arraw Spider-Man Tourbillon by RJ marks not only the iconoclastic watchmaker’s second collaboration with Marvel but also its very first in-house movement.
The RJ Arraw Spider-Man Stealth Tourbillon in black carbon and red fiberglass case
The watch follows RJ’s first Spider-Man piece from 2018 and takes it to the next level of horological complexity, with a central tourbillon inspired by the arachnid hero and developed and produced entirely at RJ’s atelier on the shores of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva. RJ also wanted the watch’s movement to have an extra-long power reserve ? 150 hours, or more than six days ? so its engineers pLaced the extra-large mainspring barrel in the center of the movement, where it spans nearly the entire expanse of the openworked dial. The tourbillon cage thus needed to be placed directly above the centered barrel and on the same axis. Made from grade 5 titanium, the tourbillon cage, along with its going wheel train, sports an openworked design reminiscent of a spiderweb; it is flanked by two black eyes in the style of those on Spider-Man’s mask, affixed to the mainplate with contrasting finishing. RJ’s first in-house caliber features a...
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