The new watch from Daniel Roth Manufactory the 220Y Tourbillon 8-day perpetual calendar is the great achievement that ever came from a firm like Daniel Roth and it is recognize to be so because of the mechanical complications that can be found in this tourbillon.

     In the watch industry the 220Y Tourbillon 8-day perpetual calendar has bring some essential new features and can be proudly to call the name of a prototype when it cams to two different indicators on two different dials.

     There are some difficulties when you will try to read for the first time the hour at the new watch because it has the hour numbers only written to the four hour and then is a long pause, where we can find the new calendar system, and then hours begins again on the left side from the eight hour. Because the hour are not written it creates an inconvenient but this it will disappear immediately when you will find out what lies beneath the part where the hour numbers are missing.

     But let’s start with the beginning and tell you about the case of the watch. It is actually one of the main high teak components that lies mounted on the new 220Y Tourbillon 8-day perpetual calendar. It is conceive by two different layers and made from red gold of 18 karats. At the first view the first layer show us the hour indicator and in the 6 o’clock indicator we find a totally new instruments and design with a great futuristic vision. It can be seen the power supply also on the first layer and it has a power ergonomic up to 700 hours witch are indicated in a very glamorous way. The power indicator has tree sets of numbers that are showing the hour and there are set one layer on top of the other. The great indicator mechanism has an indicator formed by three arms, each one shorter then the other and this way the Daniel Roth engineers have created an indicator for each one of the layers.

     About the hours and minutes indicators the incredible thing is that they have the smallest mechanical moving parts because the entire time indicators have the property to change on the other side where we can find the great perpetual calendar. The heart of the watch is the 5301 calibre of only 25 millimeters wide and 6 millimeters width.

     Know we must tell you about the great perpetual calendar that lies beneath the first layer or can be bring to front when you press the button near the twelve hour. The perpetual calendar is an outstanding feature that actually shows you the progress of the current day with the help of a gold indicator and has other various functions. Because the watch is double faced you can actually see some moving parts even if there are from the time indicators or from the perpetual calendar. Another special feature of the perpetual calendar is that it has the property to indicate perfectly the leap years and it has a unique display of the moon and sun phases. So it has some astronomy parts integrated because we all known how difficult could be to indicated the phases of the moon or the phases of the sun.

     The tremendous 220Y Tourbillon 8-day perpetual calendar it was developed entirely in Valle de Joux in the Swiss Jura.

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