UK-based unbiased watchmaking platform The Restricted Version leaves little room for assumptions as to what it’s all about. The corporate is fuelled by a ardour for the craft of low-volume, high-creativity watchmaking. Based by Pietro Tomajer in 2015, it has shortly established itself as a number one specialist within the business, bringing watchmakers and collectors collectively by the shared love for indie watchmaking. A love we share as nicely; with out it, MONOCHROME Watches most likely wouldn’t have existed. The Restricted Version has beforehand teamed up with Ophion and Amr Sindi (The Horophile) and now strikes to larger echelons with Schwarz Etienne. And only for good measure, business veteran Kari Voutilainen joins the combo of the Schwarz Etienne Roma Synergy ‘Terracotta’.
Launched in 2020, Schwarz Etienne usually gives the Roma Synergy in two sizes (39mm or 42mm), however The Restricted Version comes within the smaller 39mm measurement solely. The stainless-steel case is completely polished and exhibits a rounded bezel and robust lugs with a refined step of their profile. At 11mm in top, it’s a watch that’s worn with ease in just about any setting. A sapphire crystal covers each the back and front, and the knurled crown sits on the classical 3 o’clock place.
Any Roma Synergy is a deal with because of its dial made in collaboration with Les Ateliers Kari Voutilainen, however this Terracotta version is maybe much more particular. Completed in a heat terracotta tone, the dial is completed with three completely different patterns of hand-guilloché. The gray outer chapter ring reveals a wavy “Soleil” (solar) sample, the centre part is completed with one thing referred to as “Écaille de Poisson” (fish scales) and the small seconds subdial exhibits a superb “Obscure” (wave) sample. Mixed with the utilized hour markers and numerals and the Alpha-type central hour and minute palms, it’s a actually refined show of workmanship. The ultimate particulars are the signatures of each Schwarz Etienne and Kari Voutilainen.
Beneath the sapphire crystal “hood” of the Roma Synergy ‘Terracotta’ beats a well-known coronary heart. This Schwarz Etienne ASE 200.00 motion (additionally utilized by others like GoS), pushed by a micro-rotor, is absolutely manufactured in-house. Even specialist parts such because the regulating organ and hairspring are manufactured in SE’s atelier. Simply as on the dial, Les Ateliers Kari Voutilainen is chargeable for the ornament, and the bridges are completed with a guilloché sample and anglage all through. The motion runs at a frequency of 21,600vph and gives a snug 86 hours of energy reserve.
The Roma Synergy ‘Terracotta’ by Schwarz Etienne, in collaboration with The Restricted Version, is worn on a gray leather-based strap with a superb rustic texture and is secured to the wrist with a stainless-steel folding clasp. It’s introduced as a restricted version (clearly) of 20 items and is solely out there by The Restricted Version for a worth of GBP 25,900.
For extra info, please go to TheLimitedEdition.co.uk or Schwarz-Etienne.ch.
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