It tends to be a giant deal when a watchmaker unveils their first “in-house” motion, a pivotal milestone that always marks a step into the upmarket. For Italian model Venezianico, tapping into the experience of Fausto Berizzi, the technical director of OISA, was the important thing to their first proprietary mechanical caliber, designed, registered, and constructed solely in Italy. The result’s the Redentore Utopia, and its beating coronary heart: the V5000 Caliber mechanical motion.
In a break from conference, the Redentore Utopia is extra of a stage for the V5000 Caliber motion—a catalyst for the Venezianico model and its future momentum. Nonetheless, Venezianico matches the keenness of the motion with a visually-gripping timepiece that definitely doesn’t sign its standing as merely a vessel for the model’s technical development. Sporting a 316L stainless-steel case that measures at 38mm in diameter and eight.9mm in thickness, the Utopia is firmly a costume watch. The deep blue dial is constructed through ion plating and contains a dazzling, hand-engraved guilloché sample, designed solely for the Utopia on a rose engine lathe by grasp artisan Riccarfo Renzetti. The result’s a radial motif that offers the looks of being in fixed movement, with mild glancing off every angle because the watch is shifted on the wrist.
On the dial, baton-style, hand-applied indices line the circumference, and faceted alpha fingers match the stainless-steel case’s polished end. The only textual content element on the dial is the model’s “cross” brand, additionally in silver, just under the 12 o’clock marker. The emblem additionally seems on the crown, which sits at 6 o’clock on the case. The ultimate piece of the Utopia puzzle is a handcrafted and embossed leather-based strap made by Tuscan-based Gian Pietro Failli, which matches the dial’s placing blue hue, and cements the Redentore Utopia as a pure Italian timepiece.
Whereas I’m not often one for costume watches that prioritize texture and visible dazzle over performance, the Utopia’s design is clearly telegraphed in a means that offers it extra of a stark, critical kind of flash, somewhat than empty splendor. After all, the actual star of the present is the V5000 Caliber motion beneath the Utopia. The V5000’s technical specs embody a high-end inertia-variable free sprung steadiness wheel manufactured by Atokalpa in copper-beryllium alloy (within the haute horlogerie custom of emphasizing longevity). A free sprung steadiness wheel is a very conventional and as of late considerably unique function which permits the steadiness to oscillate freely with out interference from a regulating machine. The variable inertia system of the V5000 permits for steady and exact regulation utilizing a quartet of masselottes (weights) organized on the surface of the steadiness. Lengthy-term price stability can also be enhanced by a break up gear practice that divides energy distribution to the minutes and seconds individually, which is believed to maintain the continual movement of the seconds hand from affecting the consistency of the V5000’s timekeeping system. When totally wound, the V5000 has a 60-hour energy reserve and operates at 25,200 vibrations per hour (3.5 Hz). In response to the model, it’s rated correct to ±3 seconds per day.
All of that is spectacular, however none of it could be very particular if it wasn’t embellished with a contact of fancy, in fact, and the V5000 delivers the elegant particulars in spades. The entire motion’s bridges are embellished with radial Côtes de Genève patterns, and the double-supported steadiness bridge moreover options horizontal satin ending. Micro-perlage could be seen on the mainplate—all bridges moreover function polished anglage, and 19 jewels whole beautify the V5000. All of this finery and engineering could be seen, in fact, by way of a see-through caseback.
It’s a must to give it up for Venezianico—there was no midway effort put forth on any piece of the Redentore Utopia, or its crown jewel, the V5000 Caliber motion. Sadly (however predictably) all 100 examples of the Utopia offered out shortly after launch (at a retail value of $4,500 every). However we anticipate common manufacturing watches that includes this motion to be accessible later this yr, and we’ll have hands-on impressions as quickly as we are able to. Venezianico
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