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New Luxury 'Scuderia One' Ferrari Watch By Cabestan - Only For Ferrari Owners

Murmurs about a deal between Ferrari and a new watch maker partner have been looming since their mutual break-up with Panerai. While Ferrari has some less expensive watches out there, they need a good high-end timepiece with their name on it. I suppose the question for them was to go classic or wild? Well they went wild. The new deal seems to have been a product of courtship by talented watch designer Jean-Francios Ruchonnet on behalf of Cabestan, one of the brands that he designs watches for. Recent news has confirmed that the deal has been signed, and Ferrari will soon have watches made by the boutique luxury watch brand. Ruchonnet will design the watches - and here is a prototype.

The new watch, called the Scuderia Ferrari One by Cabestan, is clearly based on a design combination of the new Cabestan Nostromo and the existing Cabestan Winch Vertical Tourbillon. The design has of course been influenced by modern Ferrari design and technology. The middle bridge section is in carbon fiber, and I wouldn't be surprised is the strap is made in materials used for seats and/or steering wheels. Of course, this may be just a prototype images, but Ferrari is likely happy with the look.

Price for the piece will be 300,000 euros and will be a limited edition of 60 pieces. It will have a tourbillon and does have the very time-consuming-to-produce fusee chain - where each link in the tiny bicycle chain style series of links is made by hand (by master watch maker Eric Coudray). The movement is extremely accurate for a mechanical watch at about plus or minus one second per day. Units of production? Not sure. Is this the idea watch that you want a poster of next to that new sexy Italian super car? Maybe. For those who aren't in the know, the time is told on rotating, vertically aligned barrels. Overall, the watch is certainly cool. It was when it was just a Cabestan, and it will be with the Ferrari name on it. According to Cabestan, the watch will only be available to Ferrari clients. Not sure what that means, but it sounds like it will be sold only by Ferrari, perhaps only to Ferrari automobile customers.

Partially Via Business Montres (in French).

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical Watch & Upcoming New Release

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

Last week I had some one on one time with every one's favorite winch wound tourbillon watch, the Cabestan. The mechanics of the Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical watch are as impressive as its finishing. In Cabestan's employ is a truly remarkable watch maker who ensure that the entire system looks and works beautifully. Plus, the Cabestan was designed by the heralded watch designer Jean-Francois Ruchonnet.

The most recent Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical watch has some differences from the original that came out a few years ago. Notable is the removal of the winch. Instead, to stream line the look and feel of the watch, the winch is including as a separate part - and is very complex and interesting in its own right. You attach the winch device to the watch to wind it. One of the most notable things about the Cabestan is just how small it is. Not that it is little, but you'd imagine it was massive in size when it is actually very wearable. This is also a testament to the ingenuity of the watch maker. And of course the watch is very cool.

Looking inside the watch you have two sapphire crystals through which you can see the vertically mounted tourbillon (lower right hand corner) that doubles as the seconds indicator, the hours and minutes, and a power reserve indicator on the mainspring barrel. As a means of power transfer, the watch relies on a fusee and chain complication that uses a tiny hand-make chain. The watch is truly a remarkable horological machine.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Gallery: Cabestan Nostromo watch

Tags: Cabestan, Nostromo, tourbillon, vertical, watch, Winch

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Cabestan Watch

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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We are a few months away from Baselworld 2006 but already the watch oddities have begun to surface. The watch shown here is Cabestan, a project worked on by Jean-François Ruchonnet and Vianney Halter. The Cabestan has a transversal tourbillon and the indications for hours, minutes, seconds and power reserve appear on the four cylinders of the watch. The watch has an original mechanical movement with manual winding, a fusee and a tourbillon and six ball bearings. The movement is visible from above and the side. The winding stem is a removable “winch” that stores in the buckle of the watch’s bracelet. There will be 135 of these watches made, 15 in yellow gold, 55 in rose gold, 50 in white gold and 15 in platinum and it will sell for around $220,000. Interesting but it reminds me of an old fashioned calculator and I'm not sure it really qualifies as wrist candy.

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