Roger Dubuis Features a New Lamborghini-Inspired Watch

Roger Dubuis provides entered another full yr of its high-profile partnerships with Italian automaker Lamborghini; its racing group, Lamborghini Squadra Corse; and its own official tire provider, Pirelli – and an unique horological-motor vehicle design synergy once dominated the Swiss watchmaker’s brand-new offerings at SIHH 2019 again. Notable among they are two new versions in its released Excalibur Huracán collection lately, both built with an all-fresh in-house motion and one outfitted with a particular Pirelli-branded rubber strap.

Roger Dubuis Excalibur Huracan – front
Caliber RD630.
Roger Dubuis’s Caliber RD630, the second produced by the ongoing organization in cooperation with Lamborghini Squadra Corse, helps it be debut in the most recent edition of the Excalibur Huracán, with a 45-mm titanium case, and it could be more evocative of Lamborghini motor-racing DNA than the first even. Skeletonized like most contemporary Roger Dubuis calibers greatly, it includes a 12º tilted stability wheel, an innovation initial utilized by the brand in its eye-popping Quatuor timepiece (that actually had four of these) in 2014; a honeycomb structure similar to Lamborghini grilles included in the mainplate; and a hexagonal time home window at 6 o’clock with distinctive speedometer-design numerals. The inclined sprung stability offers been repositioned at 12 o’clock for optimum exposure on leading of the openworked dial, plus a new strut-bar-shaped bridge that echoes those on the V10 engine of the Huracan “supercar” that this model is known as. Despite the watch’s general openness, the day disk is made to remain hidden aside from the current time numeral in the hexagonal aperture at 6 o’clock (the hexagon is definitely a condition found frequently in Lamborghini style). As in this movement’s predecessor, it includes a 360º central rotor motivated by a Huracan’s steering wheel rim, whose spinning impact brings to brain the tires of a racecar at high speeds.

Roger Dubuis Excalibur Huracàn Performante – front
The Excalibur Huracàn Performante limited edition features a designed Pirelli strap specially.
The titanium case, features yet another automotive details, a fluted crown causing the appear of a wheel nut. Two barrels storing a 60-hour power reserve are noticeable from the dial side of the watch also, flanking the date screen. NAC covered bridges and mainplate are completely view also. This brand-new, 000 swiss francs, or around $45, of training course, being the velvety-soft materials found in Lamborghini interiors), Caliber RD630 powers an 88-piece limited edition known as the Excalibur Huracán Performante also, pictured above, that includes a black DLC-protected titanium case, 250).