SKU:   LM-130-20-50

Speed Of Sound


£57,510.00
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£47,925.00
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Limited to only 20 pieces, the Speed of Sound watch by Louis Moinet celebrates a legacy calibre of historical significance. A superb blend of contemporary Haute Horlogerie and traditional watchmaking, the watch features a hand engraved manual winding Valjoux 88 chronograph movement from the 1940s, reworked and modernised for today’s clientele by the master watchmakers at the Louis Moinet Manufacture.  Housed in a Grade 5 titanium case sized at 40.7mm, the watch carries a hand guilloché dial rendered in black with gold accents, featuring counters containing Aletai meteorite samples, a moonphase with lunar meteorite, and with a telemeter scale on the periphery.

Limited to only 20 pieces, the Speed of Sound watch by Louis Moinet celebrates a legacy calibre of historical significance. A superb blend of contemporary Haute Horlogerie and traditional watchmaking, the watch features a hand engraved manual winding Valjoux 88 chronograph movement from the 1940s, reworked and modernised for today’s clientele by the master watchmakers at the Louis Moinet Manufacture.  Housed in a Grade 5 titanium case sized at 40.7mm, the watch carries a hand guilloché dial rendered in black with gold accents, featuring counters containing Aletai meteorite samples, a moonphase with lunar meteorite, and with a telemeter scale on the periphery.

Review

For their new Speed Of Sound watch, Louis Moinet, who are widely renowned for their mastery of the chronograph complication, have chosen an iconic chronograph movement from the 1940s, the Valjoux 88. Extensively reworked at the Louis Moinet Manufacture, the historical calibre has been brought up to date for the modern era, with particular attention devoted to the moonphase ind


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