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De Bethune rethought the entire architecture, explored new codes and boldly interpreted a digital display for an instantaneous calendar with days, date and month, jumping hours and minutes, the result exceeded all expectations. A new caliber and a dial like no other: understated, pure, and elegantly revealing – a premiere – the Côtes De Bethune.
Digitally displayed jumping hours, minutes. Calendar indicating days, date and months. De Bethune spherical moon phase indicator on the back.
Dial
Silver-toned, Côtes De Bethune, inline digital display of the jumping hours, minutes, day, date and months.
Rose gold, diameter: 42.6mm-Thickness: 14.8mm.
Attachments
Cone-shaped lugs
Glass
Sapphire crystal with double anti-reflective coating (1800 Vickers).
Back
De Bethune star-studded sky in flame-blued steel with yellow gold stars and the De Bethune spherical moon phase indicator.
DB2044 Caliber
Movement
Mechanical hand-wound movement.
Diameter 30mm – 359 parts – hand-decorated with circular grained, snailed chamfered and polished steel parts – Côtes De Bethune
Self-regulating twin barrel – De Bethune Innovation (2004)
Titanium/platinum balance – De Bethune Patent (2005)
Balance-spring with flat terminal curve – De Bethune Patent (2006)
Triple pare-chute shock-absorbing system – De Bethune Innovation (2005)
Spherical moon phase indication accurate to a degree of one lunar day every 122 years – De Bethune Patent (2004)
Jewelling
31 jewels
Frequency
28’800 vibrations/hour
Power Reserve
6 days
Extra-supple alligator leather, alligator lining