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Cabestan at the GTE 2012
Cabestan at the GTE 2012
The Cabestan watch is a long on-going saga that has been through many hands. With the present new generation, the Cabestan Trapezium, it has received a new styling in a less baroque case and a movement redesign and industrialisation by Eric Coudray of JLC Gyrotourbillon fame. The watch has two crowns with flip-up paddles, one for winding (left) and one for setting (right).
The case now sports saphire glasses front and back, the vertical tourbillon still as visually fascinating as when I first saw the first prototype in Vianney Halters shop many years ago; an horological steam engine. But for my taste the Trapezium case is very sober and dry, the Cabestan has lost some of it's steam-punk allure.
Cabestan at the GTE 2012
Cabestan at the GTE 2012 The Cabestan watch is a long on-going saga that has been through many hands. With the present new generation, the Cabestan Trapezium, it has received a new styling in a less baroque case and a movement redesign and industrialisati...
There is a main change in this watch when compared to the previous one.
And it changes everything in my point of view: it is a jumping hour display. Thanks to this change, the legibility is improved. I will come back later to the Trapezium. Thanks Don for your post. Fx
Though its nice
but i do share the same feeling that it just lost the poetic beauty of the steam punk... which gave it sort of timeless unique look. Thanks Don . Faisal