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Following the profitable launch of the unique Celestial Voyager “Sunset over Cappadocia” in 2022, Andersen Genève and BCHH have as soon as once more teamed as much as create a world-time masterpiece. The dial of this new model evokes the magical vistas of Cappadocia, famend for its dramatic rock formations, historical tradition, and the mesmerising sizzling air balloons that grace its skies each day.
Andersen Genève has a distinguished historical past of making haute de gamme world time watches, a practice rooted within the classical world time complication invented by Louis Cottier. Founder Svend Andersen honed this experience throughout his work with Cottier-derived world timers in Patek Philippe’s Grand Complications workshop within the Seventies. This legacy has turn out to be a cornerstone of Andersen Genève’s watchmaking prowess. In 2021, Andersen Genève launched the primary Celestial Voyager watch in collaboration with Benjamin Chee Haute Horlogerie (BCHH), marking the start of a partnership devoted to celebrating world timer watches with ornamental cloisonné enamel dials—a coveted format in haute horlogerie.
For the brand new iteration, the Celestial Voyager “Sunset over Cappadocia” Version 2, a recent depiction of balloons drifting over the Cappadocian panorama is introduced, accompanied by a bi-colour case design that includes a platinum case physique with a pink gold bezel and case again— a primary for this assortment. The dial showcases a red-striped balloon prominently within the foreground, with the panorama of rocky canyons, grassy plateaus, valleys, and the Kizilirmak River rendered in wealthy azure, royal blue, and turquoise hues in opposition to the ethereal pink mild of early night.
The creation of this intricate cloisonné enamel dial entails over one meter of gold wire and a mess of enamel colors, every utilized and oven-fired individually by grasp craftsmen in La Chaux de Fonds. This labour-intensive course of requires immense persistence and precision, with every firing posing a danger of warping or cracking the dial.
The metropolis ring made out of glowing aventurine, with “Cappadocia” highlighted in pink gold, emphasises the exclusivity of this version. The first-time use of a two-tone case combining platinum with pink gold, together with distinctive ‘eagle’s wings’ lugs—handmade and individually soldered to the case physique—provides to the watch’s uniqueness. The case-back encompasses a rose gold outer ring, whereas the again ring across the motion is manufactured from mother-of-pearl, enhancing the watch’s luxurious and refinement. The winding rotor, manufactured from 21K BlueGold, is engraved with intricate wave-form guilloché, echoing the 2022 version’s design.
The haute horlogerie motion inside this watch reveals a wide range of hand-finishing strategies, together with chamfering, Geneva stripes, snailing of wheels, mirror sprucing of screws, and sprucing of the crown wheel enamel. The world time module, crafted in-house by Andersen Genève, has been refined over a number of years, guaranteeing precision and reliability.
Despite the complicated three-layered dial and complication module, the watch maintains a slim profile at simply 10.1mm thick, preserving its magnificence. Each piece of the Celestial Voyager “Sunset over Cappadocia” Version 2 is very unique, with solely 20 items to be produced, every customizable to the consumer’s specs.
