Introducing Maurice Lacroix Aikon Grasp Grand Date Technicolour (Dwell Pics)

Like Cyndi Lauper’s smash 1983 hit, watch designers at Maurice Lacroix have determined that watches “simply need to have enjoyable”. Most likely extra in step with the upcoming summer time season, the Aikon Grasp Grand Date, with its off-centred dial, massive date and uncovered stability wheel, will get a blast of color. Accessible in 4 new eye-catching colors, every restricted to 50 items, the most recent Grasp Grand Date fashions mix critical mechanics with a wholesome dose of enjoyable.

The Grand Grasp Date fuses the rugged, sporty case of the Aikon with the attribute off-centred dial layouts and visual motion elements discovered within the Masterpiece assortment, like this 2021 Masterpiece Gravity. Since its debut, the Aikon has appeared in numerous guises with time-and-date fashions, chronographs,  skeletonised chronographs and much more complicated fashions with in-house actions just like the intriguing Aikon Mercury with its free-hand show. The Grasp Grand Date, additionally powered by an in-house motion, debuted within the assortment in 2021. No stranger to color, the Grand Grasp Date went to city with a shiny orange mannequin in a carbon fibre case for Solely Watch 2021. The newest fashions comply with go well with and can be found with vibrant accents of barely metallic, electrical orange, inexperienced, blue and yellow.

Aikon case

The big 45mm chrome steel case has a thickness of 15mm and is handled with a black DLC coating that attenuates the scale, a minimum of visually. Respecting the distinctive angular structure of the 100m waterproof Aikon case, the six signature claws on the bezel are polished to face out in opposition to the matte sandblasted surfaces that engulf the watch.

Brilliant dials

The black dial plate hosts the off-centred hours and minutes disc on the correct facet of the dial with its intersecting openworked small seconds counter revealing among the transferring elements. Featured in any of the 4 vibrant metallised colors, the dials are embossed with a traditional Clous de Paris sample for extra texture. To reinforce legibility, the utilized indices and hour and minute arms are handled with Tremendous-LumiNova, and the tip of the central seconds hand is crimson. The big irregular-shaped aperture for the reversed escapement, seen between 6 and 9 o’clock, reveals the stability wheel held underneath an arched skeletonised bridge and its silicon escapement. Matching the color of the time indications, the massive date window at 10 o’clock options the numerals in yellow, inexperienced, blue or orange.

Color additionally makes its strategy to the rubber straps which might be built-in into the case and have the Maurice Lacroix title embossed in reduction. Like all Aikon fashions, the model’s Easychange system means that you may change the strap in seconds, and the watches include an extra black rubber strap to tone down the look if required.

Calibre ML331

On the reverse facet of the watch, you get a transparent view of the ML331 manufacture motion. Though Maurice Lacroix predominantly makes use of third-party actions, part of the gathering is fitted with in-house developed actions, typically that includes unconventional shows. The Aikon Grasp Grand Date is powered by the in-house calibre ML331, with off-centred hours, minutes and small seconds indication, and a giant date with a double window at 10 o’clock. This automated motion runs at 18,000vph, delivers a 50h energy reserve and is completed in black with a skeletonised sandblasted rotor.

Availability & Value

The Aikon Grasp Grand Date Technicolour is restricted to 50 items per colourway and is available in a particular matching color package deal made from #tide composite materials from upcycled ocean plastic. The watch is on the market on the model’s webpage, and the retail worth is CHF 8,790.