With the arrival of warm and sunny days, DeWitt is delighted to introduce three new summery declinations to its Twenty-8-Eight collection:
The Twenty-8-Eight Horizons with a blue tinted sapphire and a Tantalum bezel displaying dazzling grey-bluish reflections.
“Horizons” is a wonderful tribute to a city with multiple faces and multiple layers. Its dial is dominated by an impressive New York Art Déco construction made of four columns that majestically look down on the Tourbillon mechanism. Moving downwards, this pavilion-shaped building widens up to embrace the Tourbillon cage and form solid foundations that reach out on either sides. A perfectly balanced structure adorned with a sunray pattern reminding of a soft evening light.
The rest of the dial is a subtle game of layers and transparency effects. Made out of tinted sapphire with bluish tonalities, the crystal beautifully echoes the warm titanium-tantalum ambiance coming out of the central building and on the bezel. It also enables to get a glimpse at the interior mysteries of the watch.
The Twenty-8-Eight Tourbillon, 100% Manufacture, displaying mysterious blue reflections
This new declination of the Twenty-8-Eight Tourbillon is all about light and reflections. The central, Art Déco applique presents a dream-like turquoise colour in blue rhodium, whereas the outer applique is in a much darker, intense “galvanic” blue tonality. Not twice in the same day will it display an identical blue !
The dial of this masterpiece deserves a particular attention as it is composed of a total of 27 components, all meticulously produced and hand-finished in DeWitt’s fully integrated dial making unit.
Most of the dial elements are so small and fragile that they are made of nickel silver (or “Maillechort”), which is harder than brass and therefore presents a smaller risk of deformation. All components are hand finished (angling, polishing, satin-brushed finishing) and some elements also require additional surface treatments such as “creaming” and / or colour-fixing with a very fine layer of varnish. These additional steps will, in turn, ensure the perfect homogeneity and stability of the colour tonalities finally reached for each individual element.
So you may ask: why 27 elements for the Twenty-8-Eight ? Well, the final piece to the puzzle is represented by the Tourbillon movement: DeWitt’s first 100% in-house movement.
The Twenty-8-Eight Automatic, a summery “blue jeans” version
This very fresh, new declination of the Twenty-8-Eight Automatic presents light blue waves in the centre and an intense deep blue at the perimeter.
The rhodium plated numerals, circle applique and hands provide perfect contrasts and dazzling reflections.