Crystalball Chronograph

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Crystalball Chronograph - Badollet
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Baselworld - Badollet presents the Crystalball Chronograph, a timepiece associating a classic design with an exceptional mechanism, that can be customized according to personal preferences.

Three kinds of dials, each offered in a choice of materials, a range of dial-ring variations: the Crystalball Chronograph is capable of adapting to all kinds of aesthetic and technical desires.

The Crystalball Chronograph is available with three types of dial: 

The grand feu Enamel dial is adorned with Arabic numerals, leaf-style blued steel hour and minute hands and straight chronograph minute and seconds hands

The Stone dial, featuring an hour circle with Roman numerals in 150 palladium-coated white gold, will be available in a choice of onyx, white mother-of-pearl, black mother-of-pearl, jade and lapis lazuli, etc. Rhodium-plated leaf-style hour and minutes hands and rhodium-plated straight chronograph minute and seconds hands.

 

 

Dial-ring variations 

The broad variety of dial rings imparts different technical features and qualities to this timepiece. When fitted with a sapphire dial-ring, the Crystalball highlights the movement and adds a transparent touch to the case. Lightness is the keynote in the titanium version. Zirconium ceramics, an extra-hard material not sensitive to heat, imparts its strength to the case, while the ebony dial-ring celebrates the encounter between nature and the technology of an exceptional movement.

Issued in editions that are by nature limited and personalised, the Crystalball Chronograph is available in multiple combinations and available on a genuine crocodile leather strap complete with 150-palladium-coated white gold folding clasp.

 

 

The monopusher chronograph, an exceptional mechanism

Undoubtedly one of the hardest complications to fully master, the monopusher chrongoraph is one of the most subtle expressions of horological expertise. When combined with a tourbillon regulator, it becomes a truly exceptional work of art.

Its sophisticated, streamlined case in 150 palladium-coated white gold, measuring 44 mm in diameter, houses the imposing BAD1602 hand-wound calibre. This monopusher column-wheel chronograph movement with tourbillon regulator is endowed with a 120-hour power reserve and drives the hour and minute indications, the 60-second and 30-minute chronograph counters at 1.30 and 10.30 o’clock respectively, the power-reserve display on the back of the movement, as well as a flying tourbillon appearing through the dial opening at 6 o’clock. 

 


Visible through both the transparent case-back and the dial opening, the meticulous finishes – bevelling, circular graining and Côtes de Genève motifs – skilfully reveal the inherent added value of this Haute Horlogerie creation.