Tourbillon Barrette Miroir

In the fifth creation by Rexhep Rexhepi and AkriviA, the focus moves to finishing. Only the very highest quality of traditional finishes — fine-grained brushing, matt treatments and mirror polish — have always been used in AkriviA timepieces, but in the Tourbillon Barrette-Miroir, they take core position.

Textures become the primary signifiers of quality, from the hour numerals, which are polished and then heat-blued by hand, to the openworked tourbillon bridge, with its sharply bevelled internal angles.

The Tourbillon Barrette-Miroir is a watch for connoisseurs who not only value the precision chronometry of a tourbillon with free-sprung balance, but can also recognise the hallmarks of traditional haut-de-gamme finishing.

The smooth and symmetric curve of the steel bridge emphasises its sharp internal angles and black-polished surface

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Movement
AK-05 - manual-winding movement with hours and minutes, 1 barrel created and developed, decorated and assembled in-house
Movement dimensions
30.00 mm x 7.80 mm
Power reserve
100 hours
Number of components
167
Number of jewels
18
Balance wheel
In-house developed variable inertia balance wheel(10.5 mm) using 4 adjustable weights combined with Breguet overcoil
Frequency
21,600 vph
Tourbillon
60-second tourbillon, cage diameter 13.80 mm, composed of 63 parts with hand-bevelled and hand-blued escapement wheel with bercé-polished upper bridge
Decoration
The entire movement’s visible and non-visible parts have been hand-finished to the highest Geneva traditions using several traditional techniques : black polish, Côtes de Genève engraved striping, hand polished and brushed surfaces, rhodium treatment, beading and hand engraving and 69 entirely handmade inward angles
Dial
Two toned, matte-polished dial with handmade blued steel numbers, black polish treatment, and black polished inserts
Case
42.5 mm x 12.90 mm, composed of 30 parts, with anti-reflective treated front and back sapphire glass
Water resistance
3 ATM (30 meters)
Hands
Blued steel – handmade AkriviA pattern hands
Strap
Hand-sewn alligator strap
Clasp
Pin buckle