On New Yr’s Eve, Raketa is launching the Golden Key, a novel collector’s collection of 300 timepieces.
Within the fairy story The Adventures of Buratino (Russian model of Pinocchio), a key opened the door to a world the place your most cherished desires come true.
That includes a gold-toned, mounted metal bezel, and a sapphire crystal defending the dial aspect, the dial has mattecoarse-grained texture, with utilized convex, facted gold-toned indices, a printed minute/second chapter ring, gold-toned rectangular hour and minute fingers, a needle-shaped heart seconds hand.
Crafted from pure walnut, a hardwood that’s sturdy sufficient for a timepiece, the Golden Key watch is a contemporary interpretation of a uncommon Raketa watch with a wood case produced within the twentieth century. The case measures 38.8 mm x 10.88 mm, 42.88 mm lug-to-lug, and is coated with a varnish that gives further safety in opposition to warping and moisture, whereas preserving the pure look. The case is waterproof to 30 meters.
The watch is powered by Raketa manufacture caliber 2609, which is a time-only, 100% Russian-made manually wound 16-jewel mechanical watch motion that beats at 2.5Hz, has a 42-hour energy reserve, that’s been adjusted in 4 positions, and leaves the manufacturing unit working a -10/+20 seconds per day. A exhibition mineral crystal caseback gives a view into the mechanics.
The important thing (fabricated from chrome steel and gold-toned) wind the watch by inserting it by way of the cut-out within the crown (which is within the form of the Raketa model emblem) is connected to a leather-based twine, so it may be worn across the neck as a allure or on the wrist as a bracelet. Because the fairy story has it, “With the appropriate key in your hand, the appropriate door will at all times reveal itself.”
The Raketa Golden Key comes on a 20 mm broad black leather-based strap with quick-release spring bars, is available in a protracted velvet burgundy lined wood storage field and is being produced in a restricted version of 300 items, for roughly $3,400 (2,900 Euros). Shipped through DHL.
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